Dark Room Auditions @ InnerSound 2013
The Romanian Music Information Centre contributes to a project during InnerSound International New Arts Festival, a project that promotes Romanian electronic and electroacoustic music by placing it in an international context. Leave all your worries and prejudices behind, listen with your “eyes wide shut” and enter a magical world of mysterious sounds – such is the principle of Dark Room Auditions, a 5 hours installation that will be open daily between August 28th – August 31st, between 2 p.m. – 7 p.m. (free entrance during that period).
The project is realised in partnership with OPUS Association, the organizer of the festival, as well as Ephemair Association (Suzana Dan) that provided the location of the Dark Rooms: BlackBox (Piaţa Amzei nr.5, sector 1, Bucharest), the atelier that belongs to NAG („Noaptea Albă a Galeriilor” / „White Night of Galleries”).
The opening of Dark Room Auditions will take place on Tuesday, August 27th 2013, at 7 p.m.. The installation will run only partially on this particular occasion (1h30) and will be followed by Laurenţiu Darie’s bassoon recital at A1 Bar (Piata Amzei nr. 1, just two blocks away from Black Box).
Dark Room focuses on soundscapes, repetitive and hypnotic musics, various enough to include names from Romanian new music giants such as Octavian Nemescu or Călin Ioachimescu, to respected electronic music specialists such as Cătălin Creţu (OPUS President) or Adrian Borza and to the fascinating sound worlds of Sillyconductor (Cătălin Matei), Fluidian (Emil Gherasim) and Avânt’n’Gard.
The foreign part of Dark Room Auditions is equally eclectic and valuable: Henry Vega (Holland), Mattias Petterson (Sweden), Farang (Stefan Schmidt), the live code laptop quartet Benoît and the Mandelbrots & member composer Juan A. Romero (Germany). A special mention is due to Marcus Beuter (Germany), whose sound installation (faszination maschine – der mensch in der reflektion l) was created specially for InnerSound.
Dark Room Auditions
TIME SCHEDULE
14:00 – 14:30 – Part 1: Silly lovesongs
Sillyconductor / Romania
– Colour reading room (4:11 min)
Henry Vega / Holland (25:00):
– ONEderfull (5:40) tema festivalului
– Orbit Correction (5:31)
– A Thousand Tones (4:34)
– East of the Lake Mix (6:26)
– Piano Music 1 (2:43)
14:30 – 15:00 – Part 2: Meditation sketch
Farang (Stefan Schmidt) / Germany
– Ashqem – Sketches for processed classical guitar (30:00)
Classical guitar / Sound design /Composition: Stefan Schmidt (2012)
Mastering: Matthias Geiges
15:00 – 16:00 – Part 3: Birds, Soundscapes and Carols
15:00 Călin Ioachimescu / Romania
– Digital Birds (14:00)
15:14 Cătălin Creţu / Romania
– Lüneburg Soundscape (8:00 )
15:23 Adrian Borza / Romania
– Akedia (17:00)
Original title: Akedia for oboe, nanoKontrol and iFPH (2011); Program: iFPH (2011)
15:40 Fluidian (Emil Gherasim) / Romania (8:20)
– Inner Soundscapes (3:00)
– Soundpaintings (5:18)
15:48 Avânt’n’Gard / Romania – Non-tempered carols (12:00)
– Susu-n ‘naltul cerului (4:51)
– La sfarsitul lumii (7:09)
16:00-16:30 – Part 3: Into the Lake of Tears
Octavian Nemescu / Romania
– Lacul Lacrimilor (30:00)
16:30 – 17:10 – Part 4: Mechanisms
16:30 Benoît and the Mandelbrots / Germany (livecoding laptop band)
–Nadelrauschen (at Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Karlsruhe, 14.12.2010 ) (23:30)
Juan A. Romero / Germany
– Drone (5:06)
17:00 Mattias Petersson / Sweden
– Darken your Veil (9:34) modular system
17:10 Marcus Beuter / Germany
– faszination maschine – der mensch in der reflektion l – Sound installation (80:00)
18:30 – 19:04 – Part 5: Coda
Sillyconductor / Romania
– Diorama (34:00)
Curator: Diana Rotaru (composer, Artistic Director of InnerSound and CIMRO coordinator)
For more information on the second edition of InnerSound International New Arts Festival, click HERE or visit the website / Facebook page.