December 10. 2009. (Thursday) Long Distance Dialogues
December 10. 2009. 8:00PM - Laser Avatars >>>
| Program:
- Andrea Szigetvári: Aliquots and Aliquants - Johannes Kretz: The Turing Test |
Andrea Ladányi |
Performed by: Andrea Ladányi – laserharp Kitty Fejes – laserharp Andrea Szigetvári – live electronics Johannes Kretz – live electronics Ádám Siska – programming Attila Kalcsú, János Wieser – lasertechnics |
Two dancers, two rooms connected with a
network, four laserharps. The movements and the
sounds created by the dancers will be
visualized in form of movements of the
laserbeams. The dancers situated in two
different rooms will dance with each other's
laseravatars.
December 10. 2009. 8:40PM - Georgi Sztojanov: Hunger >>>
| Performed by:
Narrator/Seltopuzik/Snake: Herczku Ágnes - singing Eve: Éva Bodrogi - singing Adam: József Gyabronka - actor |
Georgi Sztojanov |
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Péter Földes - flute, piccolo, alto
flute
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The piece creates a new context for an old
story placing Adam and Eve in the age of the
Internet , Skype, chat and webcam. The new
context and the modern technology opens the way
to mix different genres, sytles and spaces:
there is a mix of the opera and theater and
video, classical music and folkmusic, burlesque
and pantomime, seriousness and humour.
December 10. 2009. 9:30PM - Frank Gratkowski / David Wessel duet >>>
Frank Gratkowski - saxophone
David Wessel - live electronics (from California on the Internet)
United by the shared innovatory impulses of the
fields of contemporary jazz, separated by the
10000 km, between Budapest and Berkeley
(California), the "analogue" sax player, Frank
Gratkowski and David Wessel, a pioneer in the
use of virtuoso external controllers for
computer music, perform and improvise together
through the ether.
December 11. 2009. (Friday) Local networks
December 11. 2009. 8:00PM - Kathleen Supové - Exploding Piano >>>
| Kathleen Supové - piano, electronics
Program: - Jacob Ter Veldhuis (Jacob TV): The Body of Your Dreams (rev. 2004) - Nick Didkovsky: Zero Waste (2002) - Anna Clyne: On Track (2007) [video by Joshue Ott] - Jason Freeman: Piano Etudes (2008) Observing Squirrels, Learning to Dance, Reading a Poem, Trying to be Hip5 - Neil Rolnick: Digits (2005) [video by R. Luke Dubois] |
Kathleen Supové |
Dubbed “the downtown piano queen” (The New
Yorker), Kathleen Supové is known to audiences
in New York and around the country for her
virtuosic and compelling interpretations of new
music, her theatrical flamboyance, and her
constant experimentation in the presentation of
concerts. In her concert at MNW she will
challenge both herself and the audience by
creating pieces in which the composer allows
parts of the composition to be decided by the
computer and/or the audience.
CONTEST! >>>
CONTEST! >>>
December 11. 2009. 9:30PM - European Bridges Ensemble >>>
Performed by:
Georg Hajdu - Kai Niggemann - Johannes Kretz - Ádám Siska - Ivana Ognjanović - Andrea Szigetvári - Stewart Collinson
Program:
- Fredrik Olofsson (S): the choir, the chaos
- Daniel Iglesia (USA): Pundit Bingo
- Alexander Schubert (G): A Few Plateaus
- Jacob Sello (G): isms
- Johannes "DJ" Kretz (A): Encore
- Johannes "DJ" Kretz (A): "Two Arias" for Quintetnet: "may I feel" and "Ruby's facebook status"
The European Bridges Ensemble was established
for Internet and network performance. Its
current members are Kai Niggemann (Münster,
Germany), Ádám Siská (Budapest, Hungary),
Johannes Kretz (Vienna, Austria), Andrea
Szigetvári (Budapest, Hungary), Ivana
Ognjanovic (Belgrade, Serbia), Georg Hajdu
(Hamburg, Germany), and Stewart Collinson
(Lincoln, England), performing with Georg
Hajdu’s interactive network performance
environment Quintet.net.
In 2009 July the ensemble worked at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg together with four young composers to create new network pieces. The result will be presented at MNW2009.
In 2009 July the ensemble worked at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg together with four young composers to create new network pieces. The result will be presented at MNW2009.
December 12. 2009. (Saturday) Dream of futurists
December 12. 2009. 8:00PM - MERZBOW / Balázs Pándi duet >>>
Performed by:
MERZBOW (Masami Akita) - laptop
Balázs Pándi - drums
"If music was sex, Merzbow would be pornography." (Masami Akita)
MERZBOW (Masami Akita) |
Pándi Balázs |
Merzbow is the recording name of the most well
known Japanese noise artist. Inspired by
Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism, and on the
other hand, by the Japanese strain of Japanese
sado-mazochism, Merzbow has been continually
fascinated by noise as both sonic detritus and
vehicle for spiritual ecstasy.
At the festival Mezbow will play together with a genre-crossing, young Hungarian acoustic drum player, Balázs Pándi.
At the festival Mezbow will play together with a genre-crossing, young Hungarian acoustic drum player, Balázs Pándi.
December 12. 2009. 9:15PM - Zoltán Pintér: ...eine kleine sonnen canone... >>>
433 ps - for four motorcycles
Performed by:
Czakó Szabolcs – Yamaha R6 (129 HP)
Ádám Siska – Yamaha R6 (129 HP)
Tamás Strém – Yamaha R1 (182 HP)
Zoltán Pintér – Yamaha R1 (182 HP)
Performed by:
Czakó Szabolcs – Yamaha R6 (129 HP)
Ádám Siska – Yamaha R6 (129 HP)
Tamás Strém – Yamaha R1 (182 HP)
Zoltán Pintér – Yamaha R1 (182 HP)
Motorconcert is a 10 minutes piece for four
Yamaha motorcycles, where the instruments are
the most beautifully sounding engines of the
music history. The dream of futurists will come
true!
December 12. 2009. 9:30PM - Post-show discussion with Masami Akita
December 13. 2009. (Sunday), 6:00PM - Workshop Closing Concert >>>
The participants of the "Netrooms: Long
Feedback" and "DSP: Draw Send Play"
workshops will present the result of their
work.