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Zvokotok

A cycle of contemporary composed music

Zvokotok focuses on contemporary composed music. It is defined by the research of compositional procedures and often linked to music technology. It encourages and merges unique sound languages and performative innovativeness and moves contemporary compositions into new spatial and concert forms.
Zvokotok connects established institutional spaces of artistic activity with premises of the dynamic action of NGOs. It implements and maintains unburdened space of dialogue and overcome the artificial distinction between areas and venues of artistic activity.

The program in 2023 was conceived by Nina Dragičević.

In 2023, in the Zvokotok cycle, we will expand the concepts and scope of the sonic: we will not stop at reducing the auditory as exclusively musical, nor will we intervene only in sonority as omnipresence, but we will expand the object of sound's origin. We will put at the center the sonic potential of cultural, one might even say civilizational, products such as the text (and therefore, of course, intertextuality) and the visual. Sound emanates from text. The 20th and then the 21st century placed textual and visual (graphic) composition in the field between the extreme poles of composition and 'pure' improvisation, shaking up the relationship between composer and performer. If musical notation assumed that composer and performer would understand each other as precisely as possible, with new approaches to the articulation of musical ideas this is no longer only unlikely, but above all not necessary. On the one hand: a renunciation of commandment. On the other: a renunciation of following the commandment. But also, a renunciation of breaking ties in the name of independence. A renunciation of atomism. A renunciation of totality. A release. We will argue that textual and/or graphic composition is the site of humanist contact par excellence. And we need that.

The series consists of five concert evenings, i.e., performances of at least five compositions. Since textual and visual composition widens the field of interpretation - so much so that it allows (even encourages) the performer to play a compositional role - we can say that with each performance a new composition is created, but not entirely, since it is at the same time an interpretation of a specific composition. Therefore, where possible, in each concert, a particular composition (its textual or visual notation) will be performed several times, but each time with a different performing ensemble, i.e., each time anew. In a sense, we will be observing not only the performance, but the creation of a (different) composition each time. The emergence of a non-authoritarian system of communication.


The program was conceived by:
2014 - Nina Prešiček, Bojana Šaljić Podešva, Luka Juhart
2015 - Nina Prešiček, Bojana Šaljić Podešva, Luka Juhart
2016 - Tomaž Grom
2017 - Jonas Kocher
2018 - Tomaž Grom
2019 - Primož Trdan
2020 - Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio 
2021 - Luka T. Zagoričnik
2022 - Steven Loy  

27.8.2020

Zvokotok - Tilen Lebar: Emancipacije

27. 8. Zvokotok – Stara vojašnica Vrhnika ob 20h

Tilen Lebar: Emancipacije

Z vsakim plastificiranjem omogočamo hermetično zapiranje prostora, ki ohranja in preprečuje
zunanjim dejavnikom okolja, da bi kakorkoli vplivali na določeno snov, materijo ali subjekt. Med
izvzemanjem konteksta ohranitve lastnega sestava ali zgradbe le to podkrepimo in privedemo do
nedefinirane strukture. Ali lahko plastificiramo papir do te mere, da prevzame polne lastnosti
plastike? Ali lahko plastificiramo sébstvo do te mere, da se identificiramo s subjektom plastike,
ki nam omogoča vodoodpornost in zračno neprepustnost? Ali lahko plastificiramo lastno
subjektivno do te mere, da spremljamo okolje na omejen način in ga ne poskušamo zavestno
dojemati kot svojega ter pri tem ne opazimo miljé, ki smo ga pustili? Potemtakem proces, ki smo
ga povzročili že sam doprinese k notranjemu izkustvu in s tem človeka z vsakim iztrgom iz le tega
pripravi k zaznavanju okolja.
Tokratna zvočna instalacija premleva prav to možnost soničnega plastificiranja, ki z alienacijo
oddaljuje zvok od lastnega primarnega izvora in z dopuščanjem tovrstne abstraktnosti gradi na
ignoranci subjektivnega, ki je primarni posneti zvok privedlo do granulacije materiala in s tem
omogočilo vpogled v zrnca same provenience. Nedefinirane strukture tovrstnega plastificiranja
prinašajo enovitost posameznih primarnih izvorov v lastno kompleksno zgradbo, ki v
celoti preprečuje transparentnost same forme. Kar lahko prepoznavamo, so izolirana zrnca
razširjenega jaza, ki se širi v nezavedno in nas zapira v sam prostor inštalacije. Prisluhni. Ne
analiziraj, sugeriraj, ne identificiraj se. Zaplavaj. Ne vzpostavljaj ločnice med zavednim in
nezavednim, postavi enovit indiferenten Drugi svet.

Zvokotok kurira Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio

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