MUSICA GENERA FESTIVAL 2008
International Festival of Improvised and Experimental Music
Szczecin 23-24-25 May 2008

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Venues: Kana Theatre, Concert Studio of Polish Radio in Szczecin, ZSS Gym

Ben Zeen (Poland)
Carpets Curtains (Czech Republic)
Dyslex (Romania)
eRikm (France)
The Necks (Australia)
Robert Piotrowicz (Poland)
Prell (Hungary)
Eran Sachs (Israel)
Martin Siewert (Austria)
Tigrics (Hungary)
Rafael Toral (Portugal)
Trapist (Aaustraia/Canada)
Valerio Tricoli (Italy)
Voice Over Noise (Slovakia)
Xavier van Wersch (Netherlands)
Joe Williamson (Canada)
Michael Vorfeld (Germany)

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Musica Genera Festival 2008 is the seventh installment of the international 
forum for contemporary experimental music and sound art. Drawing from 
different contexts and aesthetics is the tradition of the festival. 
The main goal of MGF is presenting the music of the moment, an up-to-date 
picture that not only the media, but even artistic circles fail to fully 
comprehend. Contemporary experimental music has become a hermetic gray area, 
still associated with the pioneers of sound explorations. Lack of 
appropriate terminology makes it very difficult to define phenomena that 
compose it and to build a system of classification. Music that has developed 
for over 50 years, cannot still be experimental just by its sheer existence. 
It is such when related to the mainstream, contemporary academic or pop music. 
MFG 2008 features a comprehensive survey of "experimental" in contemporary 
music. Gathering artists of different aesthetics and concepts, it shows the 
common ground, on which today's sound artists operate. 
The festival focuses on the art whose medium is the sound, leaving the 
conception of "music" open, and always ready to embrace more essence within 
its meaning. Our art is the sound, free, autonomous and beautiful.   

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                                | Friday | Saturday | Sunday 
            TICKETS             |--------|----------|--------
                                | 23.05  | 24.05    | 25.05
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 Kana Theatre                   | 25,-   | 20,-     | 20,-
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 ZSS Gym                        | 20,-   | 20,-     | -
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 Concert Studio of Polish Radio | -      | 35,-     | 35,-
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Festival pass for all concerts - 130 PLN
Festival pass reservation info@musicagenera.net
Festival pass sale from May 16th in Piwnica Kany (pl. Sw. Piotra i Pawla 4/5)

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organization: Musica Genera
co-organization: Stowarzyszenie Teatr Kana
cooperation: Polish Radio Szczecin, ZSS, Ultrasound Fundation
support: Szczecin City, Austrian Cultural Forum, Czech Centrum, Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
musicians hosted by Klub Pracowników Nauki
media support: TVP Kultura, Przekrój, 2 Program Polskiego Radia, Polskie Radio Szczecin, Exklusiv, TVP Szczecin, Gazeta Wyborcza, nowamuzyka.pl, serpent.pl, sitka.pl
printed matters: Drukarnia Algraf
PA system: Grasz
design: Michal Kopaniszyn
webmaster: Dominik Kowalczyk


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_____________________May 23rd, Friday________________________


20:00 Kana Theatre, pl. sw. Piotra i Pawla 4/5 

	Rafael Toral (PT)
	   Space Study 2/5 hybrid
	   electroacoustic instruments

	Carpets Curtains (CZ)
	   Ivan Palacky - Dopleta 160 typewriter, electronics
	   Filip Cenek - video

	Valerio Tricoli (IT)
	   revox, electronics 

23:00 ZSS Gym ul. Malopolska 22

	Tigrics (HU)
	   electronics

	Xavier van Wersch (NL)
	   analogue synthesizers, electronics 



_____________________May 24th, Saturday______________________


17:00 Kana Theatre, pl. sw. Piotra i Pawla 4/5

	Voice Over Noise (SK)
	   Marek Piacek - laptop, electronics
	   Slavo Krekovic - laptop, synthesizer
	   Oliver Rehak - laptop, electronics

	Rafael Toral / Joe Williamson / Michael Vorfeld (PT-CAN-DE)
	   Rafael Toral - electroacoustic instruments
	   Joe Williamson - double bass
	   Michael Vorfeld - percussion 

20:00 Concert Studio of Polish Radio in Szczecin, ul. Niedzialkowskiego 24

	eRikm (FR)
	   video, sound

	The Necks (AUS)
	   Chris Abrahams - piano, keyboards
	   Tony Buck - drums
	   Lloyd Swanton - double bass

23:00 ZSS Gym ul. Malopolska 22

	Dyslex (RO)
	   electronics

	Prell / Eran Sachs (HU-IL)
	   Eran Sachs - no imput mixer, electronics
	   Prell - electronics


_____________________May 25th, Sunday_______________________

16:00 Kana Theatre, pl. sw. Piotra i Pawla 4/5

	Emiter (PL)
	   electronics

	Ben Zeen (PL)
	   Maciek Ozog - electronics
	   Pawel Cieslak - analogue synthesizer

19:00 Concert Studio of Polish Radio in Szczecin, ul. Niedzialkowskiego 24

	eRikm / Martin Siewert (FR-AT)
	   eRikm - turntables
	   Martin Siewert - guitar, electronics

	Robert Piotrowicz / Valerio Tricoli (PL-IT)
	   Robert Piotrowicz - analogue synthesizer, electronics
	   Valerio Tricoli - revox, electronics

	Trapist (AT-CAN)
	   Martin Brandlmayr - percussion
	   Martin Siewert - guitar, electronics
	   Joe Williamson - double bass