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"I'm sitting in a room", the motto of the IX.
Making New Waves Festival is the title of the
cultic composition of Alvin Lucier, written in
1969/70. The piece re-defines the process of
music creation converting the space into an
instrument as its resonant frequencies transform
the speech into various pitches and rhythms.
This year the festival focuses on space influencing music. The physical space is an indispensable condition for the music to exist and sound, though there is a common assumption that it is the time, the domain of events and processes, which is audible, while space, the realm of objects, is visible. In the XXth century, many composers have tried to make the physical space audible, filling it with a new content creating a musical form with the help of geometry, geography acoustics and electronics. The programme of the festival will include compositions, installations, workshops bringing various spaces into motion, allowing us to listen to the weird and wonderful phenomena of feedback resonances, virtual acoustics, phase shifting or delay lines. We can also experience meetings of different musical cultures reviving far from each other in geographical terms. The concert programme will be completed with music installations (such as live performance of Alvin Lucier's "I'm sitting in a room"), creative music workshops and lectures. |