Sound (Dis)obedience

Here we are again, without knowing exactly where we're going. But we know why.
Because sound moves us, provokes us, and brings us together.
Sound (Dis)obedience is a festival of listening. And of what happens when you listen to something unexpected. Music that resists singularity and resonates on the edges of oceans (as Primož Čučnik puts it in one of his poems).
A team of percussionists, led by Simon Klavžar, will set wood in motion with Timber by Michael Gordon. Jazia — a trio featuring Salwa Jaradat, Cham Saloum, and Ali Al-Hout — will explore Palestinian tradition. Burkhard Beins, Tony Elieh, and Maurice Louca (Marmalsana) will stretch nerves with an acoustic dialogue between drums, bass, and guitar. Italian double bassist Daniele Roccato will use microtonal nuances and spectral resonances — harmonics, polyphony, and various preparations — to show how an instrument can sound like a voice that breathes, whispers, screams, and tells stories. Belgian-Nigerian bassist Farida Amadou and Panamanian-American trumpeter Aquiles Navarro will, through repetitions and dynamic, unexpected shifts, become a striking resonator — hissing explosions dissolving into subtle rustles. The trio of Vesna Pisarović, Tony Buck, and Noël Akchoté will deconstruct, reinterpret, and reconstruct songs, questioning what a composition even is. In addition to performances by workshop participants, the ensemble Thuluth — Magda Mayas, Ute Wassermann, and Raed Yassin — will explore tensions between silence and chaos, between acoustic sensitivity and electronic intensity.
Sound (Dis)obedience brings questions, vibrations, movements, tension — a space for surprise, discovery, and connection. Come. Listen. Or don’t.
Tomaž Grom, artisticdirector of the festival
 
Or, to put it another way:
Sound (Dis)obedience is the best festival in the world. As always, this year we expect: the most virtuosic and exciting performers, global stars who play in the world’s most prestigious venues, some of the finest musicians alive (or even, arguably, dead), and composers whose works dominate the grandest stages. They are, simply put, victorious in every sense. Oh, and let’s not forget: the most esteemed, top-tier, cutting-edge, legendary, masterful, magnificent, and exceptional artists.
In short, (Un)Listening will take you on an unforgettable musical journey that you absolutely cannot miss. Hahaha.

Sound (Dis)obedience is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and Municipality of Ljubljana.
Sound (Dis)obedience is engaged in staging, development, reflection and dissemination of research practices in music and sound. An assembly of diverse events, meetings, presentations of publishing activities, the implementation of international networks and discussions behind the bar multifacetedly address this diverse creative field. Sound (Dis)obedience brings together guest musicians, interested local artists, audiences and the professional public. As such, it is not only a festival of certain music, but also and above all an realization of openness, cooperation and flexibility.
Sound (Dis)obedience is a space for exchange, where by way of concerts, workshops, lectures, and other forms, different border-line musical practices can interact with each other.Past programs