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
| Date | 06.10.2012 |
| Action | Project (music/poetry) “Vārdrūme” |
| Participants | Platons Buravickis, Jeļena Glazova, Rūta Mežavilka, Inga Gaile, Edvins Raups, Rostislavs Rekuta |
| Location | Latvijas Radio 1. studija, Doma laukums 8 |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu 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; |
| Date | 06.10.2012 |
| Action | Tatjana Kozlova (EE) “Lovesong” and Malin Bång (SE) “…när korpen vitnar” (2003) performed by Karin Hellqvist (SE) and Yumi Murakami (JP) |
| Participants | Karin Hellqvist & Yumi Murakami |
| Location | Latvijas Radio 1. studija, Doma laukums 8 |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 16f | |
| Online References |
http://vimeo.com/74832945 http://www.skanumezs.lv/lv/?s=Kozlova |
| Photos | |
| Description | |
| Date | 06.10.2012 |
| Action | Performance |
| Participants | Robyn Schulkowsky |
| Location | Latvijas Radio 1. studija, Doma laukums 8 |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu 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
| Date | 11.10.2012 |
| Action | Performances "Sundogs", "612.43WEISS" |
| Participants | Jan-Peter Sonntag & Lars Gühlcke |
| Location | Splendid Palace, Elizabetes iela 61 |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu 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 |
| Description | Both 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. |
| Date | 11.10.2012 |
| Action | Performance Forest Swords |
| Participants | Forest Swords |
| Location | Splendid Palace, Elizabetes iela 61 |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu 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 | |
| Date | 11.10.2012 |
| Action | Performance Peter Brötzmann and Mats Gustafsson |
| Participants | Peter Brötzmann and Mats Gustafsson |
| Location | Splendid Palace, Elizabetes iela 61 |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu 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 | |
| Date | 11.10.2012 |
| Action | Performance "Ondulado" for 5 guitars |
| Participants | Edgars Rubenis, Māris Butlers, Lauris Ābele, Dāvis Burmeisters, Kārlis Tone |
| Location | Splendid Palace, Elizabetes iela 61 |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu 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.” |
| Date | 11.10.2012 |
| Action | Project - piece on Imants Ziedonis book "Colour Tales" |
| Participants | Machinefabriek |
| Location | Splendid Palace, Elizabetes iela 61 |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 26 | |
| Online References |
http://vimeo.com/64327225 |
| Photos | Photos by Edgars Šulcs |
| Description | In 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. |
| Date | 11.10.2012 |
| Action | Performance Francois Bayle |
| Participants | Francois Bayle |
| Location | Splendid Palace, Elizabetes iela 61 |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu 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 | |
| Action | Performance |
| Participants | Container |
| Location | Palladium, Marijas iela 21 |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 37 | |
| Online References |
http://vimeo.com/64327225 |
| Photos | Photos (by Arnis Kalniņš) - Gallery Pop-Up |
| Description | |
| Date | |
| Action | Performance |
| Participants | Oriole & DJ Krii |
| Location | Palladium, Marijas iela 21 |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 30f | |
| Online References |
http://vimeo.com/64327225 |
| Photos | Photos by Arnis Kalniņš |
| Description | |
| Date | |
| Action | Performance |
| Participants | ITAL *with Aurora Halal? |
| Location | Palladium, Marijas iela 21 |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 33 | |
| Online References |
http://vimeo.com/74211154 |
| Photos | Photos by Edgars Šulcs |
| Description | |
| Date | |
| Action | Performance |
| Participants | Haxan Cloak |
| Location | Palladium, Marijas iela 21 |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 38 | |
| Online References |
http://vimeo.com/64327226 |
| Photos | Photos by Arnis Kalniņš |
| Description | |
| Date | |
| Action | Performance |
| Participants | Laurel Halo |
| Location | Palladium, Marijas iela 21 |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 35 | |
| Online References |
http://vimeo.com/75386374 |
| Photos | Photos by Edgars Šulcs |
| Description | |
| Date | |
| Action | Performance |
| Participants | Kode9 |
| Location | Palladium, Marijas iela 21 |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 34 | |
| Online References |
http://vimeo.com/64327229 |
| Photos | |
| Description | |
| Date | |
| Action | Performance |
| Participants | Stellar Om Source |
| Location | Palladium, Marijas iela 21 |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 32 | |
| Online References |
http://vimeo.com/64327225 |
| Photos | Photos by Edgars Šulcs |
| Description | |
| Date | |
| Action | Performance |
| Participants | ELVI/DUNIAN (Elvis Zants un Artūrs Liepiņš ) |
| Location | Palladium, Marijas iela 21 |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 39 | |
| Online References |
http://vimeo.com/74203214 |
| Photos | Photos by Edgars Šulcs |
| Description | |
Performance Night 413.10.2012
| Date | |
| Action | Performance |
| Participants | Bee Mask |
| Location | Anglikāņu baznīca, Anglikāņu iela 2A |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu 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 | |
| Action | Performance "Nude on Sand" |
| Participants | Jenny Hval |
| Location | Anglikāņu baznīca, Anglikāņu iela 2A |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu 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 |
| Description | Nude On Sand is a new collaboration between Norwegian composer, singer, journalist and writer Jenny Hval and table-top guitarist and improviser Håvard Volden. |
| Date | |
| Action | Performance |
| Participants | Fennesz |
| Location | Anglikāņu baznīca, Anglikāņu iela 2A |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu 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
| Date | 13.10.2012 |
| Action | Conference "music and other disciplines of art" |
| Participants | Are Johannes Mokkelbost, Johannes Bergmark, Merja Anneli Kokkonen |
| Location | |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Online References |
http://www.skanumezs.lv/lv/2012/forums-muzika-un-citas-makslas-formas/ |
| Description | |
cinema program - Phonic Psychomimesis A/v13.10.2012
| Date | 13.10.2012 |
| Action | Phonic Psychomimesis - Riga Walkthrough (2012, 21:30 min, colour, 4 channel sound) |
| Participants | Rihards Bražinskis |
| Location | Rīgas Kino muzejs, Peitavas iela 10/12 |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 58 | |
| Online References |
Audio file (mp3, 65.1MB) |
| Description | Phonic 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 |
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| Date | 13.10.2012 |
| Action | Performance Assistance (Visuals for Rihards Bražinskis) |
| Participants | Ģirts Korps |
| Location | Rīgas Kino muzejs, Peitavas iela 10/12 |
| Sponsoring Partners | Skaņu Mežs |
| Skaņu Mežs'2012 festival booklet, pg. 58 | |
| Online References |
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| Description | The artist Ģirts Korps has created the visuals accompanying this piece which premieres at Skaņu Mežs. |
