April 2008
Over one weekend in April, a range of young musicians came together in Warsaw to perform a unique concert at the Centre for Contemporary Art, combining a diverse range of musical influences and styles to an appreciate audience.
Participants came from an educational music project with young people which aims to create a modern Sejny music from the polyphonic tradition of Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, German and Jewish sounds. These are new sounds which arise from the sensibilities of the young people involved.
It is the combination of the music of acoustic instruments with the sound structures completely generated by machines, the sounds from the old scratched vinyl records combined with the rhythm of computer processor. Composing and arranging of already prepared sounds on home computers and adding their texts to it, words which are a record of their own perceptions and descriptions of reality, their values and relations among people. Often, these texts are full of very sharp criticism and bitterness.
The idea of this project is to make that phrase “I’m from Here” contain the deep consciousness of cultural past, as well as the reflection about present situation. We want the music made during the project to reflect contemporary life. The project and the new music has arisen from workshops were held by internationally acclaimed musicians such as Paul Brody (Berlin), Alan Bern (Berlin), Pete Paulau (Minsk), Patryk Zakrocki (Warszawa), Dj Lenar (Warszawa).
The co-ordinator of the activities is Michal Moniuszko and you can find more information at:
www.myspace.com/sejnymuzykamiejsca
