MaerzMusik 2024: Form and Disposition
Aleksander Wnuk / Piotr Peszat / Zbigniew Karkowski
Concert
Aleksander Wnuk © Joanna Galuszka
Ticket Prices
15 Euro reduced 12 Euro
Day Pass Radialsystem 23.03.2024
38 Euro reduced 30 Euro
Tickets are sold via the Berliner Festspiele ticketing platform:
www.berlinerfestspiele.de/maerzmusik
To describe Zbigniew Karkowski as an unconventional artist would be a massive understatement. The Polish composer pursued a radically anti-academic approach in his work, and his personal life up to his death in 2013 was no less iconoclastic. Karkowski composed the solo piece for percussion “Form and Disposition” – its title certainly apt – without ever having written a score for it. The piece was both preserved and further developed through live performances by Daniel Buess between 2008 and 2016, and subsequently by João Carlos Pacheco.
Commissioned by the Sacrum Profanum festival in 2022, percussionist Aleksander Wnuk and composer Piotr Peszat created the first transcription of the work. They have created a new version that relies on digital processing, maintaining the extremely physical character of Wnuk’s performance while highlighting Karkowski’s interest in the textural qualities of electro-acoustic, ambient and noise music. In this interpretation by the exceptional percussionist Wnuk, “Form and Disposition” lives on in the spirit of Karkowski, in a state of flux and mutation. The work is imagined as a continuation of, and response to, Karkowski – a dialogue with one of the most radical artists of his time, opening up new perspectives on his output beyond his death.
Further information www.berlinerfestspiele.de/maerzmusik
Cast
Percussion & Live-Electronics
Aleksander Wnuk
Sound design
Piotr Peszat
Biographien
Aleksander Wnuk (*1987) is a multi-percussionist, performer, improviser and sound artist, has received a doctoral degree and currently lives in Krakow, Poland. While he is specialised in the performance of contemporary and experimental music, Wnuk also works both as a soloist and a chamber musician. His primary interest revolve around multi-percussion and cross-media genres. In his creative work, he has often engaged with post-instrumental questions, working with objects and on the corporeality of the performance.
MaerzMusik 2024
MaerzMusik 2024 is positioning itself as an open-ended experience centred on conscientious listening, while also highlighting the constantly evolving tapestry of musical interplay among different generations and movements. With the ensembles, artists, musicians and composers invited, the festival examines the multi-layered potential of music through a programme that dovetails with the performing arts, sound, artistic interventions and more.
Credits
An event of Berliner Festspiele / MaerzMusik.
Media partners Radialsystem: Exberliner, Rausgegangen, tip Berlin, taz. die tageszeitung.
To describe Zbigniew Karkowski as an unconventional artist would be a massive understatement. The Polish composer pursued a radically anti-academic approach in his work, and his personal life up to his death in 2013 was no less iconoclastic. Karkowski composed the solo piece for percussion “Form and Disposition” – its title certainly apt – without ever having written a score for it. The piece was both preserved and further developed through live performances by Daniel Buess between 2008 and 2016, and subsequently by João Carlos Pacheco.
Commissioned by the Sacrum Profanum festival in 2022, percussionist Aleksander Wnuk and composer Piotr Peszat created the first transcription of the work. They have created a new version that relies on digital processing, maintaining the extremely physical character of Wnuk’s performance while highlighting Karkowski’s interest in the textural qualities of electro-acoustic, ambient and noise music. In this interpretation by the exceptional percussionist Wnuk, “Form and Disposition” lives on in the spirit of Karkowski, in a state of flux and mutation. The work is imagined as a continuation of, and response to, Karkowski – a dialogue with one of the most radical artists of his time, opening up new perspectives on his output beyond his death.
Further information www.berlinerfestspiele.de/maerzmusik
Cast
Percussion & Live-Electronics
Aleksander Wnuk
Sound design
Piotr Peszat
Biographies
Aleksander Wnuk (*1987) is a multi-percussionist, performer, improviser and sound artist, has received a doctoral degree and currently lives in Krakow, Poland. While he is specialised in the performance of contemporary and experimental music, Wnuk also works both as a soloist and a chamber musician. His primary interest revolve around multi-percussion and cross-media genres. In his creative work, he has often engaged with post-instrumental questions, working with objects and on the corporeality of the performance.
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