Concert: Silvia Tarozzi, Thirteen Changes by Pauline Oliveros and her own songs - violin, voice
Screening: Beatrice Gibson, I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead
13th of November
Officine Bellotti (Teatro)
via Gagini 31, Palermo
Concert: Silvia Tarozzi, Thirteen Changes by Pauline Oliveros and her own songs - violin, voice
Screening: Beatrice Gibson, I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead
13th of November
Officine Bellotti (Teatro)
via Gagini 31, Palermo
Centre for Contemporary Arts Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Music Programme
Erik Smith, Three Underground Spaces
19/10/2025 - 15/04/2026
with concerts by Susana Santos Silva, Magda Kordylasińska-Pękala and more
Concert: Shakeeb Abu Hamdan - percussions
Screening: Peggy Ahwesh - Blackest Sea, The Third Body
6th of June
Oficine Bellotti (Teatro)
via Gagini 31, Palermo
Lethe. Opera Buffa Acusmatica
11/04
Palermo, Palazzo Fatta, piazza Marina
part of Paradigma Club
Lethe is an acousmatic opera buffa made of field recordings taken in Napoli and overlaid with the music of Luciano Cilio, short-lived local composer. The piece was premiered in 2018.
Paweł on bandcamp
1. Yu-s (Joke)
2. VK (Bifurcation)
3. VB (First River)
4. Ha (Second River)
5. MotR (Third River)
6. Yu-k (Paradise)
Essentially, "Paweł" is an audio travelogue—a half-phantasmagoric, half-mockumentary depiction of rivers, canals, and sewage, whether flowing toward water reservoirs or upstream to their often inaccessible sources. The piece consists of six scenes, or rather six encountered landscapes. Together, they form a not-very-logical and not-very-conclusive story about water dams and locks, abundance and floods, dry lakes and stony riverbeds, as well as everything they hide and reveal. It is also about the rhythm in which they perform this work. In fact, it is mostly about that rhythm.
"Paweł" is based on field recordings made with homemade geophones, hydrophones, and contact microphones. This choice means that the landscapes in "Paweł" are not soundscapes, nor do they resemble spaces as we usually hear them. Little is presented from the perspective of human ears, yet these recordings are absurdly real—the editing is minimal, there are barely any effects, and practically no imposed drama. What truly defines "Paweł" are the juxtapositions of different takes of a given landscape at a given time—simultaneous yet arbitrary, seemingly oversized, perhaps disproportionate.
The field recordings in "Paweł" are accompanied by a voice reading the text—something between travel notes, an outline of a lecture on social history, and a curatorial narration explaining the nature of the sounds heard. Facts, anecdotes, myths, and everyday observations certainly reveal something, but they likely conceal even more, especially given the abundance of quotes—or rather, crypto-quotes. The only exception is a lengthy excerpt from Robert Ashley's libretto "The Mystery of the River", a rarely performed section of the opera "Atalanta (Acts of God)". It comes as "MotR (Third River)".
One more thing. None of this would have been possible without Marcin Barski. Gratitude does not really express anything in this case, but it is the least I can do.
Cover art work: Athanasius Kircher