LAZNIA 1 2013 - SOUND AROUND FESTIVAL
27 – 29 JUNE 2013
ul. Jaskółcza 1, GDAŃSK - DOLNE MIASTO
curator: Łukasz Szałankiewicz
“Sound around” project proposes a series of residencies for sound artists and organization of three experimental music festivals in Kaliningrad, Klaipeda and Gdansk.
The project aims at multilateral exchange of experiences, practices and technologies between mainly sound artists from Poland, Lithuania, Russia. Exploration of sound landscapes of three cities, Gdansk-Kaliningrad-Klaipeda, will become the basis of communication between the artists and will include creation of sound-cards, multimedia installations and ambient-noise concerts. Within the framework of the project there will be mutual visit exchanges for collection of the material and organization of the workshops, lectures and demo concerts. The closing final festival will consist of concert, exhibition and theoretical parts. Special extension will be invitation extra artists from Denmark and Estonia. The project documentation in a form of a CD is planned.
Festival is a part of «Close Stranger: promoting mutual understanding between population of Gdansk, Kaliningrad and Klaipeda through facilitation of exchange in the field of contemporary arts and culture».
27 JUNE 2013, AT 5.30 pm
Meeting promoting new Glissando - contemporary music magazine.
Moderator: Anna Pęcherzewska-Hadrych
Discussion: Jan Topolski, Jakub Knera, Damian Binkowski and guests
AT 7 pmModerator: Anna Pęcherzewska-Hadrych
Discussion: Jan Topolski, Jakub Knera, Damian Binkowski and guests
Close Stranger project artists (residents) presentation
28 JUNE 2013, At 7 pm
Verbalizer/Danil Akimov/Valdemaras Manomaitis (PL/RU/LT)
Krzysztof Wronski/Sergey Ivanov/Yiorgis Sakellariou (PL/RU/LT)
Lokaal Raadio (Es)
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Michal Liberak – Verbalizer
Born in 1971, Katowice, Poland. Lives in Gdańsk since 1985. Makes electronic music since 1995. Debut CD: Verbalizer "V" - Salut Records 3/2005. Verbalizer produces drone, dark ambient, harsh noise, dub, breaks, techno, IDM, hardcore. Music for trips, performances, street theatres, silent movies and rave parties. Participated in Artgenda Hamburg 2002, God Save the Kranes in Dunkerque in 2004 & 2005 and countless freetekno, acid techno, hardcore and breakcore parties & some technivals throughout Europe.
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DANIL AKIMOV
Sound-artist, curator, DJ. Works in interdisciplinary fields of contemporary art, focusing on audio-visual installations and performances. One of the founders of the Membrana/Membranoids sound-art group since 1997. Uses a variety of technologies and methods of interaction for the creation of sound structures. ( broken hi-fi equipments, vintage analog synths, soft programs, fields racordings, unidentified sound devices). Since 2000 is a permanent member of the Kaliningrad semi?onductors community, and also periodically appears in the following musical projects - Kratong, Pocket band, Polyvox orqestra, Mud-o-tronic. Since 2004 – curator of BB NCCA http://ncca.ru/As curator realized a number of series of international projects (SoundArtLab, Acoustic Diagnostic, Kaliningrad SoundArtCamp e.t.c.) focusing on sound art and experimental music. At the present moment, for his freetronic improvisations mostly use DIY(Do It Yourself!) electro-musical devices.
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VALDEMARAS MANOMAITIS
Valdemaras Manomaitis is an interdisciplinary artist. He works extensively with sound media, exploring genres of live performance, audiovisual installations, developing his interest in analougue and digital techniques. Valdemaras lives and works in Klaipeda, Lithuania.
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SERGEY IVANIV A.K.A KRATONG
Born in 1975 in Russia. Musician, sound engineer. Co-founder of such music projects as Romowe Rikoito and Kratong. As a musician took part in numerous festivals, including Wave Gothic Treffen (Germany), Wroclaw Industrial (Poland), Menuo Juodaragis (Lithuania), etc. As a sound engineer worked with Romowe Rikoito, Kratong, Neutral, IP Neva, Sunset Wings, Bigoudi and other international and local music projects. His area of interests includes everything that lies in-between dark folk and experimental electronics. The musician’s research is focused on the transmutation of natural sounds (field-recording) and contemporary industrial music into new alchemic forms and distillation units. His musical credo is: a musician is an alchemist who manipulates with different forms of human existence.
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Yiorgis Sakellariou (aka Mecha/Orga)
Yiorgis Sakellariou is a sound artist and composer working in the fields of electroacoustic music and phonography. In 2003 he launched the project “Mecha/Orga”, a vehicle for sonic exploration and research. Since then he has been active internationally being responsible for solo albums, having composed music for short films and theatrical performances, leading workshops and ceaselessly performing his music around the globe. His practice is founded on the digital manipulation of environmental recordings. His palette of sounds is all encompassing; from vibrating rail-tracks to refrigerators' static, and from noisy waterfalls to the humming of insects. He only performs in absolute darkness, fostering an all-inclusive and profoundly submerging sonic experience. Yiorgis Sakellariou is a member of the Athenian Contemporary Music Research Centre (founded by I. Xenakis) and the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association. Since 2004 he has curated the label Echomusic. He had been recently living and working Klaipeda, Lithuania, for several years.
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Lokaal Raadio
The performance will be a radio show, performed by Raul Keller and Hello Upan, using both pre-recorded and improvised sounds. »LokaalRaadio« is radio for a niche audience and a performance radio show in which Keller and Upan have been performing with Katrin Essenson since 2008. Keller will use some material derived from his solo exhibition »KLANG!« held in Tallinn 24.02. – 07.03.2012 – a sound environment and »virtual studio«. The instruments include a no-input-mixer, bowed guitar, violin, simple lo-fi monophonic synthesizers, a mechanical wheel sine-wave generator, effects and text. »Symbolistica« stands for the synthesis of symbols as sound. The performance will be broadcast on a low power mono transmitter.
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29 JUNE 2013, AT 7 PM
Dat Rayon/Andrey Kolomytzev/Gytis Skudžinskas (PL/RU/LT)
DAT RAYON
Road leading to nowhere, abandoned gas stations, battered, abandoned on the roadside car, mechanical workshops, a small, forgotten town. The world seen from inside a moving vehicle - landscapes from memory and in the form of faded cliches of American films. Dat Rayon creates music for this non-existent road movie combining disturbing ambient spaces with minimal and dub music. Who is the author of these compositions? We know only that manifested itself at the beginning of 2012, and that his inspiration is the American automobile design of the 60's and 70's. Where does it come? Where are you going? You'll find if you go out with him?
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ANDREY KOLOMYTZEY
In 1986 Andrey Kolomytzev started experimenting on occasional used synths and rhythm machines. Joined a punk/reggae band KOT (russian abb for "Heat Protection Committee") as a keyb player, and stood there for 1.5 years. Then launched a solo project, for numerous reasons called StirliTZ. In 1991, started working for local tv as a digital media technologies specialist. Mastered 3d and non-linear video editing, composed and recorded soundtracks to numerous documentaries, conducted various tv shows on music and related topics. Several CDs had been published on Moscow & St Petersburg labels as well as abroad fed up with recording around 2004, concentrated on live performances instead.
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GYTIS SKUDŽINSKAS (aka GyS)
Gytis Skudžinskas is a visual, sound and media artist. Born in 1975 in Lithuania, works and lives in Palanga/ Klaipeda. In 1999 - 2003 he studied at Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, Klaipeda Department of Visual design, in 2005 he was awarded the MA of visual arts. Since 1999 he has taken part in group exhibitions and since 2001 he has been supervising different visual art projects in Western Lithuania. In 2006 he became a member of Lithuanian Photography Union. In 1995-2005 he took part in the art action group SaliKApalikau (aka Ensemble SP). In his works the author uses different forms of expression - photography, drawing and installation. In the recent times he chooses photography more often - the way of constructing the view which allows not only to create a piece of art but also a multilayer presentation with the shade of authentic documentary. Since 1995 Gytis Skudžinskas is active in the scene of sound art and experimental music.
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VINYL TERROR AND HORROR
Vinyl Terror and Horror aka Greta Christensen and Camilla Sørensen have worked together since 2001 modifying, deconstructing and reconstructing turntables and vinyl records, resulting in amazingly detailed and well executed noise compositions, performances and kinetic installations.
Vinyl terror & horror is a collaboration between Camilla Sørensen (1978) and Greta Christensen (1977) both educated from the Royal Danish Art Academy in 2007/08. Together they have made several exhibitions e.g. "Fishgrätenmilchstand" curated by John Bock in "Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, "Enter II" in Kunsthallen Brandts, DK "Secret Garten" gl holtegaard and perforemed on different festivals: "Sound around Kaliningrad", Russia, "Colour out of space", Brighton, "Sound of Stockholm" and "Nordic music days" in Sweden and at the Swedish Energies festival in New York where they collaborated with composer JG. Thirwell.
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