This concert is an attempt at defining, identifying or perhaps even constituting new aesthetics – post indie classical? This type of music is created in opposition to sometimes too predictable modern music, but at the same time to over-aestehticised and following the beaten tracks indie classical, and is written by non-academics from the world of independent music. The concert will be unique for one more reason – as the light goes down, you will not know what to expect. All compositions will be produced by Spółdzielnia Muzyczna as premieres; they have just been commissioned by Sacrum Profanum and are being composed. Their author’s vision of instrumental music will be presented by Faith Coloccia and Aaron Turner (Mamiffer, Sumac) – privately a couple of the pianist and the guitarist – vocalists, graphic artists and composers of music basking in the air of melancholy, situated between ambient and chamber music; Aidan Baker (Nadja) – a multi-instrumentalist, a prolific artist representing many aesthetic styles, first of all ambient, drone, shoegaze and kraut-rock; Toby Driver (Kayo Dot) – a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer of music at the crossing of the avant-garde, jazz and prog-metal; Mika Rättö and Jussi Lehtisalo (Circle, Pharaoh Overlord) – a vocalist and a bassist who play all kinds of music from heavy metal through the improvised avant-garde up to avant-rock; Paweł Kulczyński (Wilhelm Brass) – specialising in modular synthesisers, broken rhythms and sound installations (e.g. last year’s Shibboleth).

PROGRAMME / 140'

Aidan Baker – An Instance of Rising (2017) [world premiere]
Paweł Kulczyński – Sokushinbutsu (2017) (arr. Piotr Peszat) [world premiere]
Faith Coloccia, Aaron Turner – Metapatterning for Constellation (2017) (arr. Eyvind Kang) [world premiere]
Toby Driver – Through the Arm to Magma (2017) [world premiere]
Mika Rättö, Jussi Lehtisalo – Polkuauto (2017) (arr. Eyvind Kang) [world premiere]

Mika Rättö, Jussi Lehtisalo – voice
Toby Driver – electric guitar
Mateusz Rusowicz – conductor
Spółdzielnia Muzyczna

The concert is commissioned by the Sacrum Profanum Festival