Skaņu mežs


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programme (pdf) ECAS WP 2 - Stage

Skaņu Mežs 2012
06.10. - 13.10.2012 / Riga, Latvia

This year the adventurous music festival Skaņu Mežs will take place in Riga on 6, 11, 12 and 13 October. A related event on 8 September will be held in the Anglican church, as part of the city’s all-night cultural event Baltā nakts/ White Night.

Skaņu Mežs will commemorate its 10th anniversary by organising retrospectives of the musical territories which the festival has been exploring over the past nine years. Presentations of recent developments in the various genres will demonstrate the link between traditional and ever-changing experimental forms.


ECAS supported events during the festival:
Performance Night 106.10.2012
Date06.10.2012
ActionProject (music/poetry) “Vārdrūme”
ParticipantsPlatons Buravickis, Jeļena Glazova, Rūta Mežavilka, Inga Gaile, Edvins Raups, Rostislavs Rekuta
LocationLatvijas Radio 1. studija, Doma laukums 8
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 14f
Online References http://vimeo.com/64327225
http://www.skanumezs.lv/lv/festivals2015/festivals-2012/

Photos Photos by Edgars Šulcs
Description“Vārdrūme” is the festival’s new project which will be premiered this year in the concerthall of Latvian Radio 1. The project’s focus is on the synthesis between speech and unusual forms of music. These particular performances will revolve around contemporary Latvian poetry. Three different creative pairings will be performing entwined symphonies of music and poetry;
 
Date06.10.2012
ActionTatjana Kozlova (EE) “Lovesong” and Malin Bång (SE) “…när korpen vitnar” (2003) performed by Karin Hellqvist (SE) and Yumi Murakami (JP)
ParticipantsKarin Hellqvist & Yumi Murakami
LocationLatvijas Radio 1. studija, Doma laukums 8
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 16f
Online References http://vimeo.com/74832945
http://www.skanumezs.lv/lv/?s=Kozlova

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Description
 
Date06.10.2012
ActionPerformance
ParticipantsRobyn Schulkowsky
LocationLatvijas Radio 1. studija, Doma laukums 8
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet
Online References http://vimeo.com/64327225
http://www.skanumezs.lv/lv/?s=Schulkowsky

Photos Photos by Edgars Šulcs
Description Christian Wolff will perform together with Robyn Schulkowsky who was born in Eureka, South Dakota, USA. She is premiere percussionist of new music, taking part in the major contemporary music festivals throughout Europe. Schulkowsky has worked with composers such as John Cage, Mauricio Kagel, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kevin Volans, Christian Wolff, Luigi Nono and Walter Zimmermann, among others. Schulkowsky is active as a composer is also known as an improviser, both as a soloist and on the free jazz scene, notably with Derek Bailey.
 
Performance Night 211.10.2012
Date11.10.2012
ActionPerformances "Sundogs", "612.43WEISS"
ParticipantsJan-Peter Sonntag & Lars Gühlcke
LocationSplendid Palace, Elizabetes iela 61
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet; pg. 20f
Online References http://www.skanumezs.lv/lv/festivals2015/festivals-2012/
http://vimeo.com/64327225

Photos Photos by Edgars Šulcs
DescriptionBoth works are based on different songs from Schubert's song cycle Winterreise. This cycle is an imaginary inner journey. It creates a sense of alienation from the world and reflects the darker side of the modern idea of individuality which was being defined at the time. It is this same subjectivity which we now take for granted, and which today serves as the foundation of modern art and our notion of the artist.
 
Date11.10.2012
ActionPerformance Forest Swords
ParticipantsForest Swords
LocationSplendid Palace, Elizabetes iela 61
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 27
Online References http://www.skanumezs.lv/lv/2012/skanu-meza2012-forest-swords/
http://vimeo.com/74854942

Photos Photos by Edgars Šulcs
Description
 
Date11.10.2012
ActionPerformance Peter Brötzmann and Mats Gustafsson
ParticipantsPeter Brötzmann and Mats Gustafsson
LocationSplendid Palace, Elizabetes iela 61
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 22
Online References http://www.skanumezs.lv/lv/2012/skanu-meza2012-peters-brocmans-un-matss-gustavsons/
http://vimeo.com/64327225

Photos Photos by Edgars Šulcs
Description
 
Date11.10.2012
ActionPerformance "Ondulado" for 5 guitars
ParticipantsEdgars Rubenis, Māris Butlers, Lauris Ābele, Dāvis Burmeisters, Kārlis Tone
LocationSplendid Palace, Elizabetes iela 61
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 24
Online References http://www.skanumezs.lv/lv/2012/skanu-mezs2012-programma-ar-precizetiem-laikiem/
http://vimeo.com/64327225

Photos Photos by Edgars Šulcs
Description”The composition Ondulado is meant to be like a dream in which one awakens from a previous dream... a continuous flow of abstract things, events, thoughts which find their epression in sounds – eternal sounds because they existed before memory. One guitar continues to undulate in the previous guitar’s current, and this in turn gives new energy to the next guitar... The piece was inspired by Lunar Mare (Moon Seas) which are dark, vast, plains on the moon formed by ancient volcano eruptions which the first astronomers took for seas. Looking with the naked eye these plains look darker than the highlands because the iron in their makeup doesn’t reflect light as intensively.”
 
Date11.10.2012
ActionProject - piece on Imants Ziedonis book "Colour Tales"
ParticipantsMachinefabriek
LocationSplendid Palace, Elizabetes iela 61
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 26
Online References http://vimeo.com/64327225


Photos Photos by Edgars Šulcs
DescriptionIn Riga he will be performing tracks inspired by intriguingly visual and original short stories on the theme of colours called Colour Tales, written by the foremost living Latvian poet Imants Ziedonis. The result is an album of meticulously crafted drones with depth, details and a sense of adventure. Soundscapes for an audience of careful listeners.
 
Date11.10.2012
ActionPerformance Francois Bayle
ParticipantsFrancois Bayle
LocationSplendid Palace, Elizabetes iela 61
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 23
Online References http://www.skanumezs.lv/lv/2012/skanu-mezs2012-programma-ar-precizetiem-laikiem/
http://vimeo.com/64327225

Photos Photos by Edgars Šulcs
Description
 
Performance Night 312.10.2012
Date
ActionPerformance
ParticipantsContainer
LocationPalladium, Marijas iela 21
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 37
Online References http://vimeo.com/64327225


Photos Photos (by Arnis Kalniņš) - Gallery Pop-Up
Description
 
Date
ActionPerformance
ParticipantsOriole & DJ Krii
LocationPalladium, Marijas iela 21
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 30f
Online References http://vimeo.com/64327225


Photos Photos by Arnis Kalniņš
Description
 
Date
ActionPerformance
ParticipantsITAL *with Aurora Halal?
LocationPalladium, Marijas iela 21
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 33
Online References http://vimeo.com/74211154


Photos Photos by Edgars Šulcs
Description
 
Date
ActionPerformance
ParticipantsHaxan Cloak
LocationPalladium, Marijas iela 21
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 38
Online References http://vimeo.com/64327226


Photos Photos by Arnis Kalniņš
Description
 
Date
ActionPerformance
ParticipantsLaurel Halo
LocationPalladium, Marijas iela 21
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 35
Online References http://vimeo.com/75386374


Photos Photos by Edgars Šulcs
Description
 
Date
ActionPerformance
ParticipantsKode9
LocationPalladium, Marijas iela 21
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 34
Online References http://vimeo.com/64327229


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Description
 
Date
ActionPerformance
ParticipantsStellar Om Source
LocationPalladium, Marijas iela 21
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 32
Online References http://vimeo.com/64327225


Photos Photos by Edgars Šulcs
Description
 
Date
ActionPerformance
ParticipantsELVI/DUNIAN (Elvis Zants un Artūrs Liepiņš )
LocationPalladium, Marijas iela 21
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 39
Online References http://vimeo.com/74203214


Photos Photos by Edgars Šulcs
Description
 
Performance Night 413.10.2012
Date
ActionPerformance
ParticipantsBee Mask
LocationAnglikāņu baznīca, Anglikāņu iela 2A
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 41
Online References http://vimeo.com/64327225
http://www.skanumezs.lv/en/festival/festival-2012/

Photos photos by Edgars Šulcs
Description The project Bee Mask is operated by the Cleveland native Chris Madak who is currently residing in Philadelphia. To create ethereal sound journeys, full of references to the cosmos and Kubrik’s ”2001: A Space Odyssey”, he uses oscillators built into glass receptacles, synthesizers, guitars, as well as sound manipulation and other electronic methods and devices for experimentation. His sound has been compared to classic works by the minimalists Tony Conrad and Phill Niblock, as well as cosmic rock veteran Manuel Göttsching’s Ash Ra Tempel recordings. Bee Mask deftly creates music which often is epic in its range, but retains a reservedness – a certain abstractness. This keeps his music constantly out of reach of rational ideas, emotions or words. His recordings are currently published by one of the most progressive new music publishers’ Editions Mego sublabels Spectrum Spools.
 
Date
ActionPerformance "Nude on Sand"
ParticipantsJenny Hval
LocationAnglikāņu baznīca, Anglikāņu iela 2A
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 44
Online References http://vimeo.com/64327225
http://www.skanumezs.lv/en/festival/festival-2012/

Photos photos by Edgars Šulcs
DescriptionNude On Sand is a new collaboration between Norwegian composer, singer, journalist and writer Jenny Hval and table-top guitarist and improviser Håvard Volden.
 
Date
ActionPerformance
ParticipantsFennesz
LocationAnglikāņu baznīca, Anglikāņu iela 2A
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 45
Online References http://vimeo.com/64327225
http://www.skanumezs.lv/en/festival/festival-2012/

Photos photos by Edgars Šulcs
Description Austrian guitarist, composer and electronic musician Christian Fennesz is recognized as the key figure and one of the most distinctive voices of electronic music today. His wide international reputation has been consolidated through a substantial overall contribution to the new musical expression. Although Fennesz has been educating formaly since an early age, first in guitar later in ethno-musicology, he decided to look for his own musical goal in the world where he could belong, expressing himself as a composer and performer. He maintained guitar as a dominant musical source changing the conventional usage and features by plugging it into laptop. Combining these musical tools as well as developing his own style in transforming and processing it, Fennesz managed to create a specific expression and sound world that is difficult to mistake for another.
 
Conference "music and other disciplines of art"13.10.2012
Date13.10.2012
ActionConference "music and other disciplines of art"
ParticipantsAre Johannes Mokkelbost, Johannes Bergmark, Merja Anneli Kokkonen
Location
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
Print
Online References http://www.skanumezs.lv/lv/2012/forums-muzika-un-citas-makslas-formas/


Description
 
cinema program - Phonic Psychomimesis A/v13.10.2012
Date13.10.2012
ActionPhonic Psychomimesis - Riga Walkthrough (2012, 21:30 min, colour, 4 channel sound)
ParticipantsRihards Bražinskis
LocationRīgas Kino muzejs, Peitavas iela 10/12
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 58
Online References Audio file (mp3, 65.1MB)


DescriptionPhonic Psychomimesis is a project by Raitis Upenis and Rihards Bražinskis consisting of concrete music and recordings of the environment. Riga Walkthrough is a dreamlike audio collage of sounds from the city giving a comprehensive picture of the city’s aural diversity; cars, public transportation, aeroplanes, road repairworks, crowds (in markets, stations, cafés and bars), various attractions, fireworks, sporting events, concerts, street musicians, playgrounds, the beep of supermarket registers, the creak of flagpoles, hangars, the nightly ambience of remote areas, footsteps, birds, church bells, bicycles, surveillance cameras, shopping carts, sounds from traffic lights, together with other details becomes an imaginary construct of any city. The composition has been published in file format by the Portugese publisher Cronica. The artist Ģirts Korps has created the visuals accompanying this piece which premieres at Skaņu Mežs.
Audio Recording
 
Date13.10.2012
ActionPerformance Assistance (Visuals for Rihards Bražinskis)
ParticipantsĢirts Korps
LocationRīgas Kino muzejs, Peitavas iela 10/12
Sponsoring PartnersSkaņu Mežs
PrintSkaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 58
Online References


DescriptionThe artist Ģirts Korps has created the visuals accompanying this piece which premieres at Skaņu Mežs.
 


2012

Skaņu Mežs

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