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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.

In 2026, under the programme direction of Tomaž Grom, Zvokotok foregrounds the question of the sonic gesture as the expressive and conceptual core of contemporary composition, while opening up an exploration of sonic thinking beyond interpretation and repositioning listening within the realms of reflection, materiality, and immediate presence. The materiality of sound and bodily presence shape the sonic experience as a spatial–corporeal event. Zvokotok thus explicitly departs from traditional modes of reading and turns toward the creation of sonic events that respond, reflect, resonate, and evoke without explaining. It affirms music as thought, as action, and as presence.

31 January – Mehka črta, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana


The program was conceived by:
2014 Nina Prešiček, Bojana Šaljić Podešva, Luka Juhart2015 Nina Prešiček, Bojana Šaljić Podešva, Luka Juhart2016 Tomaž Grom2017 Jonas Kocher2018 Tomaž Grom2019 Primož Trdan2020 Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio 2021 Luka T. Zagoričnik2022 Steven Loy  2023 Nina Dragičević2024 Luka Juhart2025 Urška Pompe 
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23.5.2022

Zvokotok v CD: Ekologija svetlobe_Neofonía

Zvokotok v CD: Ekologija svetlobe
23.maj ob 20:00, Cankarjev dom

Neofonía

Izvajalci:
Barbara Spital, flavta
Izak Hudnik, violončelo
Jan Gričar, saksofone
Miha Haas, klavir
Klemen Leben, akordeon
Peter Jeretina, tolkala
Mauricio Valdes, režiser zvoka
Steven Loy, dirgent in umetniški vodja

Program:
Mario Lavista, Jutranjica, za solo ozvočeno flavto (Canto del alba, 1979)
Kaija Saariaho, Cvetni listi, za violončelo in elektroniko (Petals, 1988)
Carlos de Castellarnau, Krhke celice, za saksofon, klavir, akordeon, tolkala in elektroniko (Fragile Cells, 2016)
Melani Popit, Naknadno 2, za violončelo, saksofon in tolkala, prva izvedba (2022)
Toshio Hosokawa, V globino časa, za akordeon in violončelo (In die Tiefe der Zeit, 1994)
Paul Clift, Astatine, za saksofon, violončelo, akordeon in elektroniko (2019)

Program Zvokotoka v letu 2022 kurira Steven Loy.

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