InnerSound 2012
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InnerSound
International New Arts Festival
August 26-31 2013
InnerSound New Arts Festival was created by young and enthusiastic artists from Romania, who gave it an unique format at its first edition in 2012. The organizer (OPUS Association) and its partners are set to offer the people in Bucharest a fresh sonic and visual oasis at the end of each torrid August.
Left: photo by Sabina Ulubeanu
InnerSound
New Arts Festival wishes to create a new perspective
on art music by embedding it in different visual projects – from
photography exhibition, silent short movies with live music to multimedia
shows. InnerSound is
growing into a strong platform for the
emerging composers, instrumentalists, photographers, visual artists and film
directors, while at the same time including in its program internationally
renowned artists (such as Alexandru Tomescu, Henry Vega, Anat Spiegel, Dublin
Sound Lab or Irina Ungureanu, in 2012).
The
theme of InnerSound 2013 is Mysterium. Provocative and challenging for
both the artists and the audience, Mysterium refers to the European medieval
tradition of syncretism. The idea of “mystery
plays”, the predecessors of theatrical manifestations, is updated to
contemporary secular realities. The InnerSound audience is
invited to discover the hidden meaning behind
every event, by hearing, seeing, feeling and interacting with the magic the
artists prepared for them.
The starting point? Again, a photo by Sabina Ulubeanu.
Events in 2013:
- MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCES – GEST (Poland) - Bytom Crew and Friends (Krzysztof Wolek - live electronics, Domink Strycharski - voice, recorders, electronics, Sebastian Smolyn - trombone, electronics, Artur Smolyn - electronics, Marysia Stoklosa & Aleksandra Borys – movement); WEAPON OF CHOICE (Austria)– Barbara Lueneburg (violin, electric violin, iPod) & Marko Ciciliani (computer, iPod, lights, video); OPUS.ART (Romania) - Cătălin Creţu – synthesisers, electronics & Aleaxndru Dan - percussions; AROUND AND ABOUT ARACHNEEA (Romania) – Irinel Anghel (performer) & Mihai Cucu (video)
- EXPERIMENTAL POP CONCERT from Holland: CONTROLLAR (Anat Spiegel – voice, Thomas Myrmel – computer, Gur Spiegel – drums)
- SILENT FILM NIGHT – short silent films with live music performed by a chamber music group and written by young Romanian composers, an original and exciting InnerSound event that had a huge success last year
- CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS – ENCOUNTERS IN TIME AND SPACE – a series of concerts that mix musics from all eras and styles, that also started in 2012. Performers: Matei Ioachimescu (flute), Laurenţiu Darie (bassoon), Raluca Stratulat (violin), Ana Topalovic (cello), Adriana Toacsen and Madalina Florescu (piano)
- VOCAL RECITAL – ANAT SPIEGEL (Holland): voice, guitar
- ELECTRONIC MUSIC – DARK ROOM AUDITIONS - an audio installation with international electronic musics (Henry Vega, Marcus Beuter, Octavian Nemescu, Calin Ioachimescu, Farang/Stefan Schmidt, Fluidian/Emil Gherasim, Benoît and the Mandelbrots, Juan A. Romero and more) @ BlackBox (Amzei 5)
- PANTOMIME-CONCERT - GYÖRGY LIGETI’s Musica Ricercata and Hungarian Rock (re)interpreted by Adiana Paler-Nicolescu (piano) and Mihai Bisericanu (actor)
- PHOTO-EXHIBITIONS – CONTEMPORARY MYSTERIES
Entrance: 10 RON
Piața Gh. Cantacuzino nr.1, sector 2
7 p.m. Opening of the photo exhibition 'Contemporary Mysteries'
The exhibition is open daily between August 27th - September 7th, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. (free entrance during that period)
Can the contemporary world still reveal the hidden, subtle side of phenomena and feelings? How do film and camera intercept the most intimate experiences awaked by ordinary or impressive events?
Photographers: Johanna Si (special guest, Austria), Șerban Mestecăneanu, Cornel Brad, Cristina Irian, Mihai Cucu, Sabina Ulubeanu, Lucian Muntean (Romania) and the winners of the 'Contemporary Mysteries' photo project competition
Jury: Alexandru Tomescu (violin player), Șerban Mestecăneanu (photographer, director of the Bucharest Photography Salon), Lucian Muntean (photographer, editor at Modernism.ro), Sabina Ulubeanu (composer, photographer, Artistic Director of InnerSound)
7:30 p.m. Encounters in Time and Space I - chamber music concert
This mini-series of chamber music concerts guides the audience from one era to another, from one style to another, in a perpetually surprising journey through newer or older musics.
Duo ATRIS: Raluca Stratulat - violin, Adriana Toacsen - piano (Romania)
Francis Poulenc - Piano Suite (Presto; Andante; Vif)
Witold Lutosławski - Subito for violin and piano
Cătălin Creţu - Sonatina for violin and piano
Sabina Ulubeanu - Fugue for solo violin
Robert Schumann - Sonata no.2 op.121 in D minor for violin and piano (1. Ziemlich langsam - Lebhaft; 2. Sehr lebhaft; 3. Leise, einfach
4.- Bewegt)
8:30 p.m. Opening Cocktail
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TUESDAY, August 27th
Entrance: 10 RON
BlackBox (NAG Atelier)
Piaţa Amzei nr.5, sector 1
7 p.m. Opening of the electronic music installation 'Dark Room Auditions'
The installation is open daily between August 28th - August 31st, 2 p.m. - 7 p.m. (free entrance during that period). The time schedule can be found HERE. In the day of the opening, we will play only a fragment of the 5h installation.
An initiative of the Romanian Music Information Center (CIMRO) that places Romanian electronic and electroacoustic music in an international context. Leave all your worries and prejudices behind, listen with your "eyes wide shut" and enter a magical world of mysterious sounds.
Music by: Sillyconductor (Colour reading room), Henry Vega (ONEderfull; Orbit Correction; A Thousand Tones; East of the Lake Mix; Piano Music 1), Farang/Stefan Schmidt (Ashqem – Sketches for processed classical guitar), Călin Ioachimescu (Digital Birds), Cătălin Creţu (Luneburg Soundscape), Adrian Borza (Akedia), Fluidian/Emil Gherasim (Inner Soundscapes, Soundpaintings), Avânt’n’Gard (Colinde netemperate - Susu-n 'naltul cerului,La sfarsitul lumii), Octavian Nemescu (Lacul Lacrimilor), Benoît and the Mandelbrots (Nadelrauschen), Juan A. Romero (Drone), Marcus Beuter (faszination maschine - der mensch in der reflektion I); Sillyconductor (Diorama)
Curator: Director of InnerSound and CIMRO coordinator)
A1 Bar
Gordon Jacob - Partita for bassoon (1. Preludio; 2. Valse; 3. Presto; 4. Aria antique; 5. Capricietto)
Antonio Vivaldi - Sonata in E minor for bassoon and cembalom (1. Largo; 2. Allegro; 3. Largo; 4. Allegro)
Nicolae Brânduş - Melopedie şi Fugă for bassoon
Edward Elgar - Romance for bassoon and piano
Cristian Bence-Muk - Meditations of a Lonely Basoon
Paul Jelescu - Rapsodie dobrogeană for bassoon and piano
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WEDNESDAY, August 28th
Free Entrance
The Romanian Peasant Museum, Aquarium Hall
Str. Kiseleff nr. 3 (intrarea Monetăriei), sector 1
5 p.m. Five O’Clock Symposium
How do we relate to the everyday mysteries? How can Art answer our deepest questions? Interplay, relaxation and passion in an open discussion.
Speakers:
Stefan Firca (musicologist) - "The Mystery of a Crowd: Audio-Visual Comments with Tanks and Clowns"
Laura Manolache (musicologist, composer) - "Variations on the Theme of Mystery"
Maria Balabas (musicologist, journalist, member of Avant'n'Gard experimental group) - "About Improvised Music, Sonorous Walks and Radio Metaphores"
Mirona Radu (filmmaker, photographer) - "Real and Unreal in Photography"
Little Workshop of Experiential Composition (Irinel Anghel, Romania)
Theoretical exposition ("Experiential Composition as an Alternative Educational Practice") and a free demonstrative workshop. Sign-up for active participation until August 26th 2013, at the following address: [email protected]. Musicians and non-musicians allowed, the maximum number of participants being 9.
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THURSDAY, August 29th
Free Entrance
Str. Ştirbei Vodă nr. 33, sector 1
Works by György Ligeti – Musica Ricercata, Hungarian Rock
'Musica Ricercata' – a search for music, from one note to all 12 of them. A set of 11 short pieces for piano that György Ligeti wrote between 1952-53, before eloping to Germany, where he will form one of the most original and complex musical languages in the XXth century. A search for music but also a search for his own style - even if they are deeply influenced by Bartok, the miniatures bear in them the seeds of what would become the Ligeti sound: deranged mechanisms, polyrhythms, wailing chromaticism, obsessive ostinatos. The last piece is an hommage to Girolamo Frescobaldi, the “father” of the ricercare form, a forerunner of the later fugue. Another hommage to the Baroque period is the fascinating 'Hungarian Rock', where Ligeti takes the strict Chacconne form – where a chord pattern is repeated while variations on it are played simultaneously - and embellishes it with wild improvisations, allusions to rock and jazz music (genres of music also based on chord repetition). All this with a delicious Hungarian flavour.
Rarely played in Romania, Ligeti’s music – vivid, enthralling sound-mechanisms - will be revealed by Adriana Paler-Nicolescu’s magical fingers and Mihai Bisericanu’s pantomime in an unique syncretic show.
8 p.m. The Bright Side of Mechanisms - multimedia concert
opus.art: Cătălin Creţu - keybords, electronics, Dan Alexandru – percussions, electronics; guests: Cătălin Milea - saxophone; Ana Maria Costea & Tabita - performers (Romania)
Entrance: 10 RON
The Romanian Peasant Museum - Courtyard
Str. Kiseleff nr. 3 (intrarea Monetăriei), sector 1
Domenico Scarlatti - Allegro from Sonata for cembalom K 159
Alexandru Sima - Atavism for flute
Daniele Corsi - Dark Matter pentru cello (p.a.a)
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier - Rondo, Sarabande and Gavotte from the 3rd Suite for flute
Călin Ioachimescu - Celliphonia for cello and tape
Joachim Quantz - Prelude for flute
Alexandru Murariu - La Cathedrale de Rouen for flute and cello
Ülkemin Akbas - Tendril for flute and cello (W.P.)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Bourrée from the 3rd Suite for cello
Corina Alexandra Tîrziman - Flight for flute
Peteris Vasks - The Book for cello
Katrina Emtage - Winds on Waves for flute and cello
The Romanian Peasant Museum, Aquarium Hall
Str. Kiseleff nr. 3 (intrarea Monetăriei), sector 1
Works by: Morton Feldman, Henry Vega, Thomas Myrmel, Cecilia Arditto, Wilbert Bulsink, Anat Spiegel, Sabina Ulubeanu, Diana Rotaru
Guests: Thomas Myrmel - electronics, Raluca Stratulat - violin
Morton Feldman - Only (lyrics by Rainer Maria Rilke) for solo voice
Anat Spiegel - I'll be seeing you for voice and guitar
Henry Vega - How I extrovert you / like a sunken gong for solo voice
Claude Vivier - Tao Tao Tao arranged for voice and electronics
Diana Rotaru - I like (lyrics by E.E. Cummings) for voice, typewriter and tape
Thomas Myrmel - Parallax (lyrics by Walt Whitman) for voice, violin and electronics
Anat Spiegel - Oh how I for voice and guitar
Sabina Ulubeanu - Slide 1&2 (lyrics by Anat Spiegel) for voice and violin
The Romanian Peasant Museum - Courtyard
Str. Kiseleff nr. 3 (intrarea Monetăriei), sector 1
Anna Florea - Salon 216B – Music: Sebastian Androne
Simona Fitcal - Transhumant – Music: Diana Simon
Nelio Costa – Sanctuary – Music: Şerban Marcu
Liviu Varlam – The Boy and the Dog – Music: Gabriel Mălăncioiu
Mira Chendler – Hauntings – Music: Tudor Feraru
Cătălin Soare – Daylight – Music: Dan Popescu
Mirona Radu - When building a home, consider orienting windows to the south – Music: Sabina Ulubeanu
Mihai Zgondoiu - Hefaistos Dream – Music: Cristian Bence-Muk
Anda Puşcaş – Edge – Music: Diana Rotaru
Paul Richard-Tremeau - La boite à souvenirs (proiect pentru InnerSound) – Music: Alexandru Murariu
Ioana Mischie - Between already and not yet – Music: Adina Sibianu
Mihai Cucu – Samka – Music: Darie Nemeş-Bota
Şerban Jipa - The Dream of a Clothes Peg – Music: Ana Giurgiu-Bondue
Constantin Basica - Deadline - Music: Constantin Basica*
*on the recording,Orchestra of the University of Music and Theater Hamburg, conductor René Gulikers
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SATURDAY, August 31st
Entrance: 10 RON
Clubul Ţăranului
Str. Kiseleff nr. 3 (intrarea Monetăriei), sector 1
Performative interventions: Valentina Chiriţă, Diana Rotaru
Normal is an illusion
(What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly
But, what if the spider itself is caught in its own web?)...
Irinel Anghel and Mihai Cucu develop crossing borders artistic experiences as interdisciplinary events with no gap between music, theatre, dance and video work. They offer a live "piece of art" inviting the participants to experiment themselves in this direct contact. Meeting Arahneea is about observing the interaction between our so many connections, thoughts, emotions, a huge invisible network made visible and audible by these 2 artists in their misterious performance.
Str. Kiseleff nr. 3 (intrarea Monetăriei), sector 1
Violinist Barbara Lüneburg invited composers and visual artists to collaborate with her in the creation of new multimedia works for electric or acoustic violin with the goal of exploring artistic relations that can be found between the classical instrument violin, mediated sound, and visuals.
Details, HERE.
9:30 p.m. Controllar – Art Pop Concert
Many thanks to all our friends who helped us through the WeAreHere platform!!!
Daita Serghi, Adriana Paler-Nicolescu, Ana Giurgiu-Bondue, Şerban Marcu, Amalia Pahomi, Alexandru Bălăşescu, Olga Tănase-Podobinschi, Eugenia Cojocaru, Liana Şerban, Mira Chendler, Sabina Yamamoto, Gabriel Teodorescu, Mariana Mihai Manolescu, Anamaria Porupca, Andreea Bradea, Nona Şerbănescu, Constantin Basica, Tudor Feraru, Corina Bordeianu, Raluca Stroie, Vlad Hurduc, Alexandra Făgărăşan, Minha Galera
InnerSound Team:
Artistic Directors: Sabina Ulubeanu, Diana Rotaru
Executive Director: Catalin Cretu (OPUS President)
Graphic Design: Suzana Dan, Serban Jipa
Video: Mihai Cucu
Special thanks: Adina Hotinceanu, Oana Dobre, Irinel Anghel, Monica Isacescu (OPUS)
InnerSound International New Arts Festival is supported by
Raiffeisen Bank
