Contemporary Music Festival for Children “Small Warsaw Autumn”
Small Warsaw Autumn is five years old this year! It is becoming increasingly energetic, imaginative and curious. It also has its own view on contemporary music that it takes immense interest in. Contemporary music is diverse; you can listen to it intently and silently in a concert hall but also while frolicking in the playground. Sometimes it can surprise us in the park, at the walk, or in a gallery. Often it invites to have fun, to do things together, teaches and discovers for us the richness and diversity of the sounds of the world that surround us. It can also help us discover and understand contemporary art.
Contemporary Music Festival for Children “Small Warsaw Autumn”
The events at Królikarnia:
Like they never existed; or the rebellion at Królikarnia
Installation in the Studio Storeroom of the 20th/21st-Century Sculpture in the Xawery Dunikowski’s Sculpture Museum in Królikarnia
18-27 September 2015, 11am-6pm, Thursday till 8pm, on Mondays museum is closed.
The opening night: 18 September, 5pm.
Amazing 20th-century sculptures by Katarzyna Kobro, Alina Szapocznikow, Barbara Zbrożyna, Maria Pinińska-Bereś, Henryk Stażewski, Jerzy Bereś, August Zamoyski, Henryk Kuna, Teodor Roszak, and the most recent ones by Joanna Rajkowska, Anna Baumgart, Zuzanna Janin, Józef Robakowski, Krzysztof Bednarski, Krzysztof Zarębski, Jacek Kryszkowski, Grzegorz Klaman, Marek Kijewski and many others come to life in the Królikarnia storerooms. The installation will present to the visitors an outstanding collection of the Królikarnia Sculpture Museum, the branch of the National Museum, in an unexpected and hilarious way. More importantly, it attracts attention to the role of verbal communication and sonic surrounding in contemporary culture.
What does this installation tell children? That sculptures are like creatures that feel, see, hear, even speak sometimes. They can even argue with one another. They are happy when somebody pays them a visit. They would like to travel and show how beautiful and unique they are. And they want somebody to think about them. Just think. Because the sculptures cannot be touched. But they can be seen, admired or even heard sometimes, instead, right?
Admissions every half an hour, the last one at 5.30pm, on Thursday at 7.30pm. Free admission, limited number of entries, registration required warsawautumn@gmail.com
Author: Krzysztof Knittel
Author and director collaborator: Maciej Wojtyszko
Lighting programming, special effects, sound: Krzysztof Cybulski, Jan Pieniążek
VOICES: Katarzyna Kwiatkowska, Michał Zieliński (recording of the actors’ voices by Michał Bereza)
Idyll 2
Music performance played with folk instruments, vocal voices and electronic sound in the Królikarnia Sculpture Park
20 September, at 11am and 4pm.
Let’s imagine that we go back in time 200 hundred years. How would the park around the Królikarnia palace sound? Back then, as today, birds would definitely sing in it. But could we also hear the sounds of trams and cars from Puławska street nearby? No, because the Puławska street didn’t exist then. There was the route leading to the palace. The owner was a royal theatre director. We can assume that there was often music in the palace and the park. In those times it was fashionable to play melodies resembling shepherd’s tunes and those representing rural life, in harmony with nature, called idylls. The songs imbued the dwellers of the city and suburban palaces and villas (and the Królikarnia palace was located beyond Warsaw’s borders) with the idyllic and carefree mood. An author of Idyll 2 refers to these tunes and their specific atmosphere. Are the rural sounds capable of winning over urban sounds? Do they have to?
Author: Zygmunt Krauze
Sound director: Wojciech Błażejczyk
Performers: Aleksandra Biskot, Ewa Puchalska, Ewelina Rzezińska, Anna Wyrzykowska (female voices); Edward Borowiak, Witold Gałązka, Czesław Pałkowski, Michał Straszewski: cranked lyre, „złóbcok” (a type of chordophones), bagpipes, sheep bells, pipes from Bieszczady.
ADMISSION FOR THE EVENTS IS FREE OF CHARGE.
MORE INFORMATION AT THE WEBPAGE OF THE FESTIVAL
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