MUSICA GENERA FESTIVAL 2006
International Festival of Improvised and Experimental Music

May 26-27-28 2006, Szczecin, Poland



Musica Genera Festival is an annual musical festivity. It presents current trends in the aesthetic which was shaped by over fifty years of experimental music history and almost fourty years of explorations in the field of improvisation. In the year 2006 the festival will take place for the fifth time and - as a jubilee - is a kind of recapitulation. As an artistic space, the MGF 2006 will also continue some threads of the previous editions.

The festival is adressed to an audience looking for new forms and sounds in music. Musica Genera Festival is a peculiar sound laboratory created by extraordinary artists, their phenomenal skills and imagination. Including also the visual component (multimedia spectacles, installations and film screenings), the festival shows the today's improvised and experimental music in a broader aesthetic context.

MGF festival is an open project brought to life by the artists' engagement. As an already established tradition, the event's characteristic is to present projects especially prepared for this international forum of modern sound art. That is why some of the festival presentations will be world premieres and - in case of the films - Polish premieres.

The artists featured this year include world class musicians like the American composer and visual artist John Duncan, Austria's Christian Fennesz, commonly perceived as one of the most original innovators of guitar/laptop fusion, the digital synthesizers expert Marcus Schmickler (Germany), the Norwegian duo JAZZKAMMER - Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre, turntable experimentalists Dieb 13 (Austria) and Ferran Fages (Spain), multi-instrumental improvisers Alfredo Costa Monteiro (Portugal), GŁnter MŁller (Switzerland), Anna Zaradny (Poland), Tony Buck (Australia), Burkhard Stangl (Austria) and Cor Fuhler (Holland), artists form the common ground of sound and installation Norbert MUslang (Switzerland) and Michael Vorfeld (Germany), rock and DJ improvisors Macio Moretti (Poland) and DJ Lenar (Poland), analogue sound synthesis system operator Thomas Ankersmit (Holland), Jean Philippe Gross (France), Robert Piotrowicz (Poland), and the composer and performer Daniel Menche (USA).

The festival's programme, in addition to concerts, includes the audiovisual installation by Michael Vorfeld, the premiere screening of Gustav Deutsch's "Film ist", and also " another premiere " the performance of audiovisual spectacle TOJ TOJ by Matylda Sałajewska and Michał Kopaniszyn in cooperation with Anna Zaradny and Robert Piotrowicz.

Musica Genera Festival always takes place in several venues, the main stage and festival central point being the Kana Theatre. Other venues include the Castle Opera, industrial interiors of the former City Slaughterhouse located on the Łasztownia island and also the National Museum.

Dozens of performers from around the globe (Europe, Asia, North and South America) have already performed at the Musica Genera Festival. The artists invited to Szczecin present strong creative personalities. They are the individuals setting trends in the modern experimental music. The festival is accompanied by CD releases. Each edition brings the release of one of the previous festivals' concerts. The premiere of the 4th festival CD - the Grydeland/Lehn/Zach trio live recording - will take place on May 26th. It will be accompanied by another new release from MG - Connector: Karkowski/Courtis/Genovart/Haro/Reche.

venues:
Teatr Kana, Opera na Zamku, była RzeĽnia Miejska, Muzeum Narodowe
SEE THE MAP

artists:
Thomas Ankersmit (NL), Tony Buck (AUS), Gustav Deutsch (AT), Dieb 13 (AT), John Duncan (USA), Ferran Fages (ES), Christian Fennesz (AT), Cor Fuhler (NL), Jean Philippe Gross (AT), JAZZKAMMER: John Hegre, Lasse Marhaug (NO), Michał Kopaniszyn (PL), DJ Lenar (PL), Daniel Menche (USA), Macio Moretti (PL), Norbert Möslang (CH), Alfredo Costa Monteiro (PT), Günter Müller (CH), Robert Piotrowicz (PL), Matylda Sałajewska (PL), Marcus Schmickler (DE), Burkhard Stangl (AT), Michael Vorfeld (DE),
Anna Zaradny(PL)

organisation: Musica Genera
co-organisation: Stowarzyszenie Teatr Kana
co-operation: Opera na Zamku, Port Rybacki "Gryf", Muzeum Narodowe
support: Miasto Szczecin, Pro Helvetia, Austriackie Forum Kultury, Ambasada Królestwa Niderlandów, Marszałek Województwa Zachodniopomorskiego, Szczecińska Agencja Artystyczna, Instytut Francuski w Warszawie, Ambasada Francji w Warszawie,
additional support: Poczta Polska
musicians hosted by: Klub Pracowników Nauki, Dom Marynarza
media: TVP Kultura, Przekrój, 2 Program Polskiego Radia, Aktivist, Exklusiv, Fluid, Polskie Radio Szczecin, TVP3, Gazeta Wyborcza, Glissando, emd.pl, nowamuzyka.pl, serpent.pl
prints: Drukarnia Algraf
soundsystem: Grasz
design: Michał Kopaniszyn, Matylda Sałajewska
webmaster: Dominik Kowalczyk
TICKETS
Kana Theatre; Operahouse on Castle: 25 PLN
Former Slaughterhouse (Łasztownia): 20 PLN
all concerts pass - 100 PLN
reservation: info@musicagenera.net
passes on sale from May 19 at Piwnica Kany (pl. ¶w. Piotra i Pawła 4/5)


PROGRAMME


Friday, May 26, 2006


• 10:00-16:00 - National Museum, ul. Staromłyńska 1
Michael Vorfeld (DE) "Lichtton" - installation
• 20:00 - Kana Theatre, pl. ¶¶w. Piotra i Pawła 4/5
Thomas Ankersmit (NL) - Dieb 13 (AT) - Günter Müller (CH)
Thomas Ankersmit - alto sax, electronics
Dieb 13 - turntables
Günter Müller - iPod, electronics

Ferran Fages (ES) - Jean Philippe Gross (FR) - John Hegre (NO)
Ferran Fages - electronics
Jean Philippe Gross - analogue synth
John Hegre - electronics

Cor Fuhler (NL) - Norbert Möslang (CH)
Cor Fuhler - EMS synth, electronics
Norbert Möslang - cracked everyday use electronics

Marcus Schmickler (DE)
Marcus Schmickler - computer
Saturday, May 27, 2006


• 10:00-16:00 - National Museum, ul. Staromłyńska 1
Michael Vorfeld (DE) "Lichtton" - installation
• 18:00 - Kana Thetare, pl. ¶¶w. Piotra i Pawła 4/5
Macio Moretti (PL) - DJ Lenar (PL)
Macio Moretti - drums
DJ Lenar - turntables

Thomas Ankersmit (NL)
Thomas Ankersmit - alto sax, elekctronics

Norbert Möslang (CH) - Günter Müller (CH)
Norbert Möslang - cracked everyday electronics
Günter Müller - iPod, electronics

John Duncan (USA) - Alfredo Costa Monteiro (PT)
John Duncan - CD players
Alfredo Costa Monteiro - electronics
• 22:00 - Former Slaughterhouse, Łasztownia, ul. Władysława IV
JAZZKAMMER: John Hegre, Lasse Marhaug (NO)
John Hegre - broken guitars, electronics
Lasse Marhaug - broken guitars, electronics

Daniel Menche (USA)
Daniel Menche - electronics

TOJ TOJ (PL)
Michał Kopaniszyn - projection, video
Robert Piotrowicz - sound
Matylda Sałajewska - projection, video
Anna Zaradny - sound
Sunday, May 28, 2006


• 10:00-16:00 - National Museum, ul. Staromłyńska 1
Michael Vorfeld (DE) "Lichtton" - installation
• 16:00 - Operahouse on Castle, ul. Korsarzy 34
"Leuchtstoff" - dir. Michael Vorfeld
"Film ist" [7-12] selection - dir. Gustav Deutsch

Christian Fennesz (AT) - Burkhard Stangl (AT)
Christian Fennesz - guitar
Burkhard Stangl - guitar

Tony Buck (AUS) - Cor Fuhler (NL) - Anna Zaradny (PL)
Tony Buck - drums
Cor Fuhler - piano
Anna Zaradny - alto sax

John Duncan (USA)
John Duncan - CD players, video
• 21:00 - Kana Theatre, pl. ¶¶w. Piotra i Pawła 4/5
Cremaster (ES-PT)
Ferran Fages - feedback mixing board, pick-ups, devices
Alfredo Costa Monteiro - objects on electric guitar

Dieb 13 (AT)
Dieb 13 - turntables

Lasse Marhaug (NO) - Robert Piotrowicz (PL) - Marcus Schmickler (DE)
Lasse Marhaug - electronics
Robert Piotrowicz - guitar, analog synth
Marcus Schmickler - computer