EMERGING ENSEMBLE: K!ART at WARSAW AUTUMN

ULYSSES Emerging Ensemble K!ART [pronounced klart] is an experimental music ensemble and creative platform based in Copenhagen, Denmark since 2019. The ensemble is characterized by an open-minded and exploratory approach to music and presents intermedial music events ranging from experimental instrumental music to music-theatre, multimedia-, and performance art works. K!ART has collaborated with a large number of composers and artists leading to more than 50 world premieres of new works. The ensemble has presented projects at a number of festivals such as MINU_festival_for_expanded_music, SPOR, Klang – Copenhagen Experimental Music Festival, Gaudeamus, Uuden Musiikin Lokakuu, and Ung Nordisk Musik.

Michael Hope Sketchbook

Sketchbook is a space in which every constituent element that enters it is contextualised and presented through a prism of play and playfulness. Sketchbook recognises the concert experience as an inherently playful one; a mimetic space which plays out towards a necessarily autotelic conclusion. In Sketchbook, participants take on particular “roles” as performers; they play games; they play videos; they play recordings; they play to win; they play both real and fictional characters; they even play instruments.

Kuba Krzewiński Interventions

In Interventions, created in cooperation with flutist Phoebe Bognár and violinist Anna Kwiatkowska, I seek a respite from traditional concert formats, a way to go beyond auditoria, and to build a community around sound—on new, non-obvious terms. We need new art, new music – just as we need a breath of fresh air. Wind will become the sound material for two interventions performed by Phoebe Bognár. We need community to face the alienation of the modern world, to stand together against the threats of our time. Anna Kwiatkowska’s three interventions will explore the community-building potential of sound. - Kuba Krzewiński

K!ART:

Mikkel Schou electric guitar

Ida Norby cello

Rob Durnin piano

Hsiao-Tung Yuan percussion

Programme

Michael Hope Sketchbook (2021/2025)* for speaker, piano, e-guitar, cello, percussion, diffused audio and video and staging

Kuba Krzewiński Intervention #4 (2025)** perf. Anna Kwiatkowska violin

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