Although, as its name already suggests, the Audio Art festival focuses primarily on sound, it is not the only content of the event held by the Muzyka Centrum Art Society since 1993. Visual elements often play an important role in projects presented here, and the audience’s interest is also aroused by unusual activities that hardly lend themselves to classification. The permanent parts of the programme include digital and analogue art with their hybrids and the discovery of low tech – forgotten old technologies. Through concerts, installations and performances, the invited artists speak out about contemporary problems: migration and war. This year’s festival events will take place at Hevre, the Academy of Music and the Potocki Palace and will be presented in two blocks (15–17 and 21–24 November). Almost 30 proposals will be presented to spectators and listeners, including Polish premieres (from Katowice, Poznań, Łódź, Warsaw or Gdańsk) and international projects (originally prepared in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bern, Ghent, Prague, Berlin or Cologne). The usual diverse mix will include a biological performance (Patryk Lichota), an installation using robots (Logos Duo), an experimental radio play (Michał Libera), compositions using machine learning (Franziska Baumann), and concerts of contemporary music. (Bartosz Suchecki, Karnet)

Program

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Friday, 15 November

17:00 / Potocki Palace / free entrance

• Ears, eyes, nose (Kraków)
  • Marek Chlanda, Marek Chołoniewski
• Hypercycle (Poznań)
  • Aleksandra Słyż
• BOT - CITY (Kraków)
  • Jacek Złoczowski
• Composition for 16 dosimeters (Poznań)
  • Andrzej Wasilewski, Stanisław Ruksza

18:00 / Hevre / free entrance

• Contemporary Art of Healing (Praha)
  • Jena Jang - voice, dance, electronics

• Beelocation (Poznań)
  • Patryk Lichota - interactive biological perfomance for 2 theremins, motion sensors and light

• Logos Duo (Ghent)
  • Moniek Darge, Godfried-Willem Raes - robots, installation

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Saturday, 16 November

18:00 / Academy of Music (Hall 205)

• Mixed Metaphores (Kraków, Warsaw)
  • Martyna Zakrzewska & Anna Kwiatkowska - well prepared upright piano, violin and electronics; music by Eivind Buene, John Cage, Heiner Goebbels, Aleksandra Słyż, Sławomir Wojciechowski

20:00 / Auditorium Kopernika 15

• Always Be Prepared (Brussels)
  • Barbara Drazkov - upright piano prepared, harmonium

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Sunday, 17 November

18:00–19:00 / Hevre

• Paweł (Warsaw)
  • Michał Libera - A sound travel diary following the traces of rivers and dams - experimental radio drama, installation

• Hidden Joys of Vocal Expansion (Bern)
  • Franziska Baumann - Solo concert for voice, sensor live electronic & ML-tools

21:00 / Cricoteka

• ROTOЯ (Berlin)
  • Peter Kutin, Patrik Lechner, Mathias Lenz - Sonic body, video, kinetic sound object

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Thursday, 21 November

18:00 / Hevre

• CIME/PSeME/SME
  • electroacoustic marathon

• Izabela Dłużyk (Gdańsk)
  • radio drama - night soundscape

18:00–19:00 / Hevre

• Ekotonika (Kraków)
  • Mat Barski & Marcin Karczewski - guitar, electronics
• Monologues, lullabies and respite (Cologne)
  • Joanna Stępalska-Spix - bass flute, electronics, music by Linda Antas, Martin Daske, Maciej Jabłoński, Joanna Stępalska-Spix, Ewa Trębacz

18:00–23:30 / Hevre

• GrupLab invites

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Friday, 22 November

18:00 / Academy of Music

• Karkowski Form and Disposition (Kraków)
  • Aleksander Wnuk / Piotr Peszat - percussion and electronics

20:00 / Hevre

• Eight Equidistant Pure Wave Oscilators, While Slipping Very Slowly to A Unison, Textually Spatialised On Eight Speakers, Concrete, 60 Minutes (Berlin)
  • Reinhold Friedl - concert/installation
• Music of String (Warsaw)
  • Wojtek Błażejczyk - string instruments & electronics

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Saturday, 23 November

18:00 / Academy of Music

• Golden Quinces Earthed (Berlin)
  • Reinhold Friedl - prepared piano + multichannel

20:00 / Hevre

• Surface of timbre (Łódź)
  • Julian Paprocki - contrabass clarinet & electronics, music by Maciej Jabłoński, Jan Stańczyk and Ewa Trębacz
• Drone Music (Gdańsk)
  • Aleksandra Panasik - oboe, electronics, music by Arlan Schultz, Jorge Torres Saenz, Aleksandra Bilińska, Ana Lara, Maria Lord

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Sunday, 24 November

18:00 / Academy of Music

• Game Over (Amsterdam)
  • Goska Isphording - harprischord & electronics, music by Hugo Morales Murgui and others
• Survivor (Barcelona)
  • Josep-Maria Balanyà and Tamara Joksimović - piano, light scenography

20:00 / Bunkier Sztuki

• IGLU (Berlin, Cologne)
  • Ignaz Schick - voltage controlled sampler, electronics, Carl Ludwig Hübsch - extended voice

Source: press release