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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  

5.3.2023

Zvokotok v CD: Félix-Antoine Morin in Asemic Sound Mappings, Cankarjev dom

Zvokotok v CD: Félix-Antoine Morin in Asemic Sound Mappings
5.3. ob 20:00, Cankarjev dom, Štihova dvorana

Zasedbe:

Kaja Draksler - klavir in Primož Sukič - kitara
Marina Džukljev - klavir in Zlatko Kaučič - bobni, tolkala
Nina Prešiček - klavir in Tea Vidmar - glas

Letošnji Zvokotok snuje Nina Dragičević.

V jedru koncepta letošnjega cikla Zvokotok je razmišljanje o zvokovnem potencialu kulturnih, civilizacijskih produktov, kot sta tekst in podoba. Če je notni zapis tradicionalno predvideval, da se bosta skladatelj in izvajalec čim bolj natančno razumela, z novimi pristopi k artikulaciji glasbene zamisli to ni več le malo verjetno, temveč predvsem ni nujno. Ker tekstovna in vizualna kompozicija širita polje interpretacije – in sicer tako zelo, da interpretu dopuščata skladateljsko vlogo (celo spodbujata jo) –, lahko rečemo, da z vsako izvedbo nastane nova skladba. Zato bo, kjer bo to mogoče, na posameznem koncertu posamezna kompozicija izvedena večkrat, a vsakič z drugo izvajalsko zasedbo. Opazovali bomo torej ne le izvedbo, ampak nastanek (vsakič druge) skladbe, nastajanje neavtoritarnega sistema komunikacije.

Na prvem koncertu Zvokotoka predstavljamo delo Félixa-Antoina Morina, kanadskega skladatelja in vizualnega umetnika. Morin je vizualne umetnosti študiral na Univerzi v Québecu v Montréalu, študij elektroakustične kompozicije pa je pridobil na Konservatoriju za glasbo v Montréalu. V zadnjih letih se posveča zlasti grafičnim kompozicijam in raziskovanju arhitekturnih elementov glasbe.
Izvajalke in izvajalci bodo poustvarili kompozicijo iz Morinovega cikla Asemic Sound Mappings.

Zvokotok je koncertni cikel, ki se posveča sodobni komponirani glasbi, raziskovanju kompozicijskih postopkov, pogosto v povezavi z glasbeno tehnologijo. Spodbuja in združuje samosvoje zvočne jezike, izvedbeno inovativnost ter povezuje prostore ustaljenega institucionalnega umetniškega delovanja s prostori dinamičnega delovanja neinstitucionalnih umetniških sfer.

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