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Time. Rhythm.

This is the tenth year of the Sanatorium of Sound Festival. The upcoming edition is presented under the theme Time. Rhythm.

 

Time. Rhythm. Time. Rhythm.

Time. Rhythm Rhythm. Time. Rhythm Rhythm.

 

All these years, we have tried to present a programme rich in experimental artistic activities, which will once again revolve around the issue of time. This edition, we will focus on the organisation of time in music–rhythm. It orders, subjugates, and sometimes also surprises, confuses.

We also see rhythm as one of the fundamental concepts to describe contemporary culture. The word ‘rhythm’ itself comes from the Greek rhythmos (ῥυθμός), which means coordinated movement, and is also related to the verb rhein (ῥέω)–’to flow’, ‘to move’. Etymologically, therefore, it refers to an organised, repetitive movement. In music theory, the rhythm of sounds gives meaning and order to a composition. But it also plays a key role in community building and the transmission of cultural values. Defined more broadly, still as an organising force, it affects both the functioning of individual entities and the structure of whole societies. At present, rhythm seems to be a concept undergoing intensive exploration and innovation, especially in the context of socio-cultural changes and the dynamic development of technology, as can be seen, for example, in computer algorithms, data processing and analysis processes or machine learning, which are based precisely on the rhythm of computational cycles.

 

At the same time, rhythm remains an effective tool for redefining one’s own corporeality and learning to carefully observe and embrace the changes taking place in the postmodern world. Henri Lefebvre wrote that one should listen to one’s body in order to be able to recognise the different kinds of rhythms surrounding us. Pauline Oliveros taught a similar practice. It is the body that serves as a metronome.

 

Time. Rhythm Rhythm Rhythm. Time Rhythm Rhythm Rhythm.

 

During this year’s Sanatorium of Sound Festival, we will discover new and surprising rhythms of musical expression. Sometimes they will be bold and tangible or mechanical, sometimes barely perceptible, subcutaneous or dreamy. At other times improvised, as if scattered or hypnotising with the same quality. We will see what happens to the metre when few rhythms are juxtaposed. The music will also pulsate in the rhythm dictated by the algorithms. Finally, we won’t forget the movement of the body through which the rhythm will be flowing by DJ sets.

We will hear and see sound works by such artists as: Marja Ahti, Jessica Ekomane, Hania Rani, Thomas Ankersmit, Marcin Pietruszewski, Piotr Peszat, Aleksander Wnuk, Hanna Grześkiewicz, Julian Rieken, Aleksandra Chciuk, Joanna Dreczka, Natalia Kędzierska, Alicja Pangowska, Paweł „Paide” Dunajko, Józef Robakowski, Paweł Romańczuk, Hubert Zemler, Jakub Knera, Gerard Lebik, Biuro Dźwięku Katowice.

 

 

Time.                                                               Rhythm.

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Program

Friday 02/08/2024

Opening of the festival

Cinema
18:30

Dj set

Park
22:00
Park
23:00
Park
00:45-08:00
Saturday 03/08/2024
Installations 10:00-18:00
Park
00:45-08:00
Brehmer Sanatorium
10:00

Curatorial tour/opening of exhibitions

Brehmer Sanatorium
10:30

Nobody is ever missing | Curatorial tour/opening of exhibitions

Brehmer Sanatorium
11:00

Watertime | Curatorial tour/opening of exhibitions

Brehmer Sanatorium
11:00
Park
10:00-12:00

Talk Program - The Organization of Sound. On the Performativity of John Cage's Works

Park
12:00
Brehmer Sanatorium
19:00
Cinema
20:00

Premiere - festival composer commission

Cinema
21:00

Dj set

Park
22:30

Dj set

Park
23:30
Park
00:30
Sunday 04.08.2024
Installations 10:00-18:00

reConvert: Roberto Maqueda/Mikołaj Rytowski- (ex)tension by Fabrizio di Salvo in collaboration with reConvert produced by Flor Medina

Brehmer Sanatorium
10:00-18:00
Brehmer Sanatorium
10:00-18:00

Nobody is ever missing | Installations

Brehmer Sanatorium
10:00-18:00

Watertime | Installations

Brehmer Sanatorium
10:00-18:00
Park
10:00-12:00

Talk Program - Taming Space. About silence and its illusions in music and everyday life - Paweł Szroniak, Hanna Grześkiewicz, Hubert Zemler

Park
12:00

Browner 20:07 (2020) | A Y U, aka "as yet untitled" 21:11 (1999) | EXPLORATORY II 30:00 (2019)

Gerard Lebik / Piotr Ceglarek - ambisonic specialization

Park
15:30
Park
17:00

One-hour visual and sound session

Cinema
18:00

The Sanatorium of Sound is a festival dedicated to experimental music and the broad spectrum of sound art. Its main aim is to present the widest possible range of phenomena related to the development of musical forms in the 20th and 21st centuries. Thus far, the festival has showcased works by approximately 250 artists from around the world, many of which were created specifically in the context of the place during artistic residencies in Sokołowsko.

The sonic mystery is revealed through acts of subtraction, as the full orchestra moves in sync with the electronics, but with each shift comes a reduction of live elements, letting the audience figure out what's happening by taking parts of the sound away.
The Wire 09.2023 (Issue 476)
As tuberculosis patients used to soak up the fresh air here a century ago, no people now soak up the music. After all, now we are getting healed here in a different way.
The Quietus 08.2023
A Sanatorium in the Central European border village of Sokolowsko plays host to a festival celebrating and interrogating healing vibrations and sounds of the body.
The Wire (Issue 429) 11.2019
Organized by Gerard Lebik, Zuzanna Fogtt and Michał Libera, it's a warm and intimate yet firmly international festival devoted to an array of sound artists with often contrasting perspectives.
The Wire (Issue 404) 09.2017
Po raz pierwszy w życiu miałem wrażenie, że uczestniczę w festiwalu, w którym nie istnieją już żadne granice między koncertem a instalacją, między improwizacją a kompozycją, między elektroniką a akustyką. A może te granice dopiero teraz przestały istnieć w mojej głowie?
Glissando 09.2016
Zasadniczym celem muzyki eksperymentalnej jest pogłębianie refleksji na temat słuchania, jak również próba ukazania licznych modalności tego procesu. Spośród gości Sanatorium Dźwięku chyba najbardziej konsekwentnie zajmuje się tym Peter Ablinger.
Magazyn Szum 09.2019
At one point, [Lucio Capece] played very soft and extremely beautiful tones on his slide saxophone, enhancing the ambient tones wonderfully. The setting was fine, the weather excellent and the sounds compelling.
olewnick.blogspot.com 08.2016
(...) mission to reposition Sokołowsko as one of Europe’s best-kept cultural secrets by putting together an unusual and curious festival focusing on sound art and noise.
Hyperallergic.com 09.2016
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