V třetí adventní neděli 14.12. se u nás ve sklepě odehraje seance s experimentálním přístupem ke kytaře a na svém turné k nám zavítají hned 3 umělci z Polska.
Pozor, budeme začínat už v 19:00.
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Three guitars, three soloists in an endless dialogue with their instruments. Like most guitarists, before they began to challenge the expressive possibilities of the guitar, they used them. After the phase of the instrumentalist tuning to the instrument, it was time to reverse the relationship (if only to give it a second life).
Common to all three is the idea that playing is not about dominating the instrument, but about recognizing its physicality. They also share a search for new articulations and sound preparations, but their purpose is different. In Doskocz's and Kostkiewicz's improvisations, sound events open the way to further events, while in Strzał w Kolano's compositions, they serve more as a non-binding building block.
The formula of three solo performances suggests that a higher-order relationship may develop between them, and thus the dialogues will begin to trialogue with each other. And therein lies the social significance of the project.
PAWEŁ DOSKOCZ
bc:
https://paweldoskocz.bandcamp.com/
sc:
https://soundcloud.com/doskocz
ig:
https://www.instagram.com/pawel______doskocz
fb:
https://www.facebook.com/pawel.doskocz
(Poland) electric guitar, often using the preparation to looking for new sound possibilities of the instrument. He focuses on playing improvised music, and draws his inspiration from many sources. Through the reduction of resources, he tries to stimulate his imagination and expand the field of possibilities. Co creates bands Bachorze, Sumpf and Strętwa.
Played at such festivals as: Ad Libitum, Nowy Wiek Awangardy Festival, Art of Improvisation Creative Festival, Jazz Ring, Musica Privata, Katowice JazzArt Festival, FRIV Festival, Avant Art Festival and Spontaneous Music Festival.
Collaborated among others with: Jasper Stadhouders, Wojtek Kurek, Vasco Trilla, Yedo Gibson, Marta Warelis, Onno Govaert, Seppe Gebruers, Andrew Lisle, Vasco Furtado, Colin Webster, José Lencastre, Nicolas Chientaroli, Gonçalo Almeida, Dirk Serries, Benedict Taylor, Diego Caicedo, El Pricto and many other.
Co organizer of the "Spontaneous Music Festival" in Poznan/PL.
Live performance at Solo Festival in Berlin, 2024:
HUBERT KOSTKIEWICZ
bc:
https://hubertkostkiewicz.bandcamp.com
sc:
https://soundcloud.com/hubertkostkiewicz
yt: https://www.youtube.com/@hubertkostkiewicz2917
ig:
https://www.instagram.com/discomfort_booking
Guitarist whose distinctive "physical" style was formed in the band Kurws. By day he contributes to the post-punk band Atol Atol. In his life he has played several hundred concerts and released several albums and cassettes. Outside of bands, he gives vent to his fascination with concrete, electroacoustic and improvised music. He seeks articulations that flow from limitations, from imperfections in performance and recording. He most often pursues his explorations with an electric guitar, but also reaches for acoustic instruments, processed field recordings or dub mixes.
He has given concerts in many places around the world (Europe, Russia, Japan), cooperated with the Japanese trio Kukangendai (concerts at the Avant Art Festival and Unsound), Arnold De Boer (ZEA, The Ex), Łukasz Rychlicki (Lotto, Kristen) and playing improvised music with many others.
In November 2024, his further solo guitar album “Four Guitar Solos For Bemma Bar” has been released by Pointless Geometry:
https://pointless-geometry.bandcamp.com/album/hubert-kostkiewicz-four-guitar-solos-for-bemma-bar
A video from the performance in Raumschiff, in Linz (Austria), 2025:
STRZAŁ W KOLANO
tumblr:
https://jakubmajchrzakmusic.tumblr.com/strzalwkolano
bc:
https://jakubmajchrzak.bandcamp.com
ig:
https://www.instagram.com/jakub_majchrzak_soundandvideo
fb:
https://www.facebook.com/jakub.majchrzak.sound.video
Jakub Majchrzak is an independent musician engaged in DIY music scene since twenty years as a band member (Kurws, Przepych, Norymberga, Pustostany among others) or solo, composing or as a collaborator during several improvised music appreances. As a result of residency in DIY festival Praga in Figueira da Foz he co-founded with Catarina Santos multimedia live act Życia Żółć. He’s performed over 500 shows in various coutries of Eurasia (performing on Primavera Sound Festival, Avant Art Festival, SOTU Festival, Stellar Swamp Festival, DomOFFon, SURVIVAL Art Review, Out of Smth and more), has released 10 studio albums, 1 single and co-produced couple of ones (for Barłóg and UZS).
Strzał w kolano (A shot in the knee) is a solo project started back in 2017 in Portugal and reactivated in 2023. The basis here is a classical guitar (quarter-tone tuned) plugged into separate guitar amplifiers via a piezo microphone. The signals coming out of the amplifiers are given distinct identities, via horizontal and vertical processings, as well as a still ones, in the texture of the sounds themselves.
Conceptually, he's consumed with tinkering with structures that are unstable, yet necessary and unattainable, at once controllable and uncontrollable. While composing is for him a method of tracing the paradoxes of a composition, improvisation serves to test its strength, is a shaking of the structure, an act of self-vandalism on the grammar of the piece, which is expanded over time. In defense of the digressive nature of the course of music-making.
in November 2024 his debut cassette has been released by Pointless Geometry:
https://pointless-geometry.bandcamp.com/album/strza-w-kolano-s-t
A video from the performance in Raumschiff, in Linz (Austria), 2025:
“On “6 ćwiczeń przeciwko inflacji” (“6 anti-inflationary drills”), riffs equal parts snaking and menacing spark and erupt as they’re fed through different amplifiers and effects. Majchrzak’s ragged energy is magnified as his acoustic guitar splits through different signal chains to fill the space of a full band.”
(Daryl Worthington, the Wire)
“Majchrzak uses the guitar primarily to generate repetitive rhythmic breaks. This persistent, offensive repetition accomplishes the escapist mission of minimalism in a twisted way. Although Majchrzak deliberately interrupts the immersion he evokes, shattering continuity at points, only to rebuild it a moment later.”
(Mateusz Sroczyński, Ruch Muzyczny)
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