Gymnastics of non/sense II – Online event

Online Video Premiere! Video link. We are presenting the video of the Gymnastics of non/sense II, produced by the Sploh Institute. The Old Power Station hosted the creative laboratory of the project, devised by the composer Matej Bonin. It builds on the challenges set out in the project Gymnastics of non/sense (2014–2016), which has already questioned the conventional ways of creating a musical composition and sought the hidden potentials of music. The project combined two media – poetry and music. But not as separate layers, i.e. as text and musical accompaniment, but rather as two interdependent media where the words “grow into” the music and thus “sound” themselves, and the music seeks its identity in the very sound and appearance of the syllables/words. In the first project, the text has been written in advanced and drew from the Karl Hmeljak’s collection of poems Krčrk (2012), and the stage set was quite static. Gymnastics of non/sense II goes a step further. On the one hand, Hmeljak’s text is written specifically for this project and evolves parallel to the sound material, and on the other hand, it is based on the assumption that each concert is really a performance, because at the…

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