Artists & Projects
24th September, 12:00-17:00 // at Čolnarna, Park Tivoli
Sound Garden: Clara de Asís
25th September, 8pm // Klub Cankarjevega doma
Clara de Asís, live performance
8-27 September // Equrna Gallery
Clara de Asís: I AM MANY PATHS, 2020, print
Clara de Asís is a Spanish composer and performer highlighting simplicity, non-intervention and active listening as means of music making. Her works display an extreme precision and intuitive openness that involves a dedicated attention to sound in its details and its most pure forms. Her music has been showcased in Europe, America and Asia and edited by eminent record labels such as Marginal Frequency, Another Timbre, Elsewhere and Pilgrim Talk. Beside the possibility of listening to her composition in her Sound garden and at her live concert at Klub Cankarjev dom, you can also see her work in the group exhibition Paradise Haunted Garden in Equrna Gallery between 8 and 27 September.
Clara de Asís is an artist presented by the Shape Platform co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
23th September, 9pm // Slovenska kinoteka
Franck Vigroux & Antoine Schmitt: Chronostasis, AV live
Composer and improviser Franck Vigroux intertwines noise, improvisation, electroacoustic, industrial, hörspiel, and contemporary music. He performs alone or collaborates for live acts with numerous renowned names. He is back to Sonica in Kinoteka with the project Cronostasis, which he developed in collaboration with artist Antoine Schmitt. Cronostasis, which had its premiere in the Centre Pompidou, is a state of brain illusion. It is a declaration of immediate future while listening to music, when it feels like the time has paused. Audio-visual performance tests the limits of laws of time as an elastic component, with spinning, stretching and turning thereof. The work, which is being interpreted live by Vigroux and Schmitt, follows open notation and partial improvisation and is synchronised by their ears and eyes, varying a little each time they perform.
8-27 September // Equrna Gallery
Svetlana Maraš: Modulacijska škatla, 2020
15th September, 12:00-17:00 // Pokrajinski muzej Koper
Sound Garden: Svetlana Maraš
Composer and sound artist Svetlana Maraš is constantly searching for an adequate form of expression at the intersection of new media, sound art and experimental music, shifting through a diverse range of genres and representational contexts. Her work, which has been internationally presented at numerous venues and festivals, encompasses live electronic music performance, electro-acoustic composition and radiophonic art. She is presenting her work at the Sonica festival in the sound garden in Koper and in Equrna Gallery at the group exhibition Paradise Haunted Garden with the work Modulation Box.
Svetlana Maraš is an artist presented by the Shape Platform co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
8-27 September // Equrna Gallery
Simina Oprescu: Ludus, AV installation, 2020
22nd September, 12:00-22:00 // +MSUM
Sound Garden: Ludus
Simina Oprescu is a composer, video and mixed media artist living in Bucharest. With the help of various instruments, ‘sound objects’ and digital programs she experimentally uses sound as means of transforming our own perception of us, environment and movement. This year she is back at Sonica festival with her new audio-visual work Ludus, which investigates how the set of rules, which are otherwise just dictating the game, here directly influence the sound and rhythm and are consequently creating aleatoric, unpredictable movement of sound in space.
Simina Oprescu is an artist presented by the Shape Platform co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
25th September, 8pm // Klub Cankarjevega doma
Irena Tomažin & Maja Osojnik, live performance
Irena Tomažin is a dancer, koreographer and singer, mostly performing in dance-theater shows, vocal performances and improvised experimental music concerts. She has created seven prize-winning authorial vocal-dance projects and collaborated with many directors and choreographers, home and abroad. Her last album ARBA, DÂK ARBA was produced in collaboration with Frederic D. Oberland. You can see her live in a duo with Maja Osojnik at the Klub Cankarjev dom.
22-26 September // +MSUM
Jenna Sutela: Holobiont, exhibition
Finnish artist Jenna Sutela seeks to identify and react to precarious social and material moments, often in relation to technology. Her work Holobiont considers the idea of embodied cognition on a planetary scale, featuring a zoom from outer space to inside the gut. It documents Planetary Protection rituals at the European Space Agency and explores extremophilic bacteria in fermented foods as possible distributors of life between the stars. Bacillus subtilis, the nattō bacterium, plays a leading role. The term “holobiont” stands for an entity made of many species, all inseparably linked in their ecology and evolution.
26th September, 10pm // SMG - Slovensko mladinsko gledališče
Lisa Stenberg, live performance
Lisa Stenberg, composer hailing from the north of Sweden is part of the experimental music scene in Stockholm, the legendary Fylkingen and composer at Elektronmusikstudion EMS, Stockholm. Her music oscillates in the realm of electroacoustic music, often drone-based with visceral presence, a kind of coexistence of immersive glory and ecstasy on the verge of bodily harm. She is coming to Sonica with her album Monument, a drone suite composed through an intimate process on the very rare analog-digital hybrid synthesizer EMS Synthi 100.
25th September, 8pm // Klub Cankarjevega doma
Maja Osojnik & Irena Tomažin, live performance
Maja Osojnik is a singer, composer, improvising electroacoustic musician, sound artist and producer, who made a name for herself in different musical fields, such as early music, contemporary, experimental, jazz, free improvisation, sound art and heavier music. The Vienna-based artist is using various instruments, from voice, field recordings, DJ-CD to ‘sound objects’, toys and trash. Shifting through analogue and digital art, virtual and real spaces and aims to expand, deconstruct and reinterpret the tonal spectra of mentioned instruments and to assign them new roles – a process reminiscent of building anagrams. You can see her live at SONICA in a duo with Irena Tomažin.
23th September, 7pm // Slovenska kinoteka
First and Last Men, film, 2020
Two million years in the future. The human race finds itself on the edge of extinction. All that is left are lonely surrealistic monuments, projecting their message into the wild. The only feature film of the Icelandic composer Johann Johanssonn is based on the eponymous science fiction novel from the year 1930. With long shots of Yugoslavian monuments, narration by Tilda Swinton and mysteriously sensitive music, which Johanssonn composed with Yair Elazar Glotman, the humankind of the future unites into one consciousness, composed of many telepathically linked individuals and speaks to us for the last time before its extinction.
26th September, 8pm // SMG - Slovensko mladinsko gledališče
kӣr, live performance
Kӣr is a pseudonym of Bane Jovančević, resident and programme director of Belgrade club Drugstore. In his music he combines the contemporary post-industrial electronic procedure with echoes of tribal mystique. Byzantine sacred music traditions and Balkan folk rhythm are merging with modular synthesis and power electronics into hypnotic soundscapes. You can meet him at the PSSST! Talks program, or listen to his magic under the arches of the Slovenian Youth Theatre.
Kӣr is an artist presented by the Shape Platform co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
8-27 September // Galerija Equrna
Kutin / Kidlinger: Decomposition IV - V, AV installation, 2019 - 2020
26th September, 10pm // SMG - Slovensko mladinsko gledališče
Kutin / Lechner: Rotor, AV live
Live performances and sound installations from Vienna-based artist Peter Kutin hold a physical and psychological impact and embrace the spectator into intensive bodily experience of light and sound. Part V : Heat of his continuing project Decomposition series will have its world premiere right here, at Sonica Festival in Equrna Gallery. Kutin will additionally present his project Rotor, which was realised in collaboration with video programmer Patrikom Lecherjem and ingineer Mathias Lenz. The piece is centered around a rotating/kinetic sound-sculpture, which is equipped with a four channel speaker system and a 360° camera. When the artist controls the speed and rotation, acceleration and deceleration become the main parameters, enabling the artist to create psychoacoustic otherworldly piece, which seems to follow its own logic.
Peter Kutin is an artist presented by the Shape Platform co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
24th September, 8pm // Čolnarna, Tivoli Park
Kleemar, No Love in Modern World (album premiere)
Kleemar is a slovenian DJ, music producer and electronic music performer, who will present his debut album No Love in Modern World, released this August. The album is a series of compositions, which are full of nostalgic synth lines and organic atmospheres. Kleemar’s music is more than a chase of the ever-changing music trends, a homage to the pioneers who created timeless tracks and the machines, which made that music possible. He describes his process as a play with instruments, recognizing the patterns within the chaos and assembling them into something less chaotic, allowing the process to go its own way.
24th September, 8pm // Čolnarna, Tivoli Park
BRGS: In_Dependences, live performance
On his new record In_Dependences versatile percussionist, electrophonic musician, improviser and composer BRGS builds a dialog with nature and submerges into the layers of decentralised field of everyday noise. The recordings originate from various outdoor spaces and locations and are merged with sounds of preparated drums and electrophonics. The work questions human dependency on nature, its (too) deep interventions and nowadays almost inevitable and always-present noise pollution.
26th September, 10pm // SMG - Slovensko mladinsko gledališče
NO1 presents ROTOЯ
(live AV by Peter Kutin & Patrik Lechner)
Peter Kutin will present ROTOЯ, a project realised in collaboration with video programmer Patrik Lechner and ingineer Mathias Lenz. The piece is centered around a rotating/kinetic sound-sculpture, which is equipped with a four channel speaker system and a 360° camera. The artist controls the speed and rotation and therefore directly influences the projected video-images as well as the sound-characteristics. Acceleration and deceleration become the main parameters, which enable the artist to create a psychoacoustic otherworldly piece that seems to follow its own logic. Referring to Paul Virilios’s Dromology, the work questions speed as a metaphorical racetrack, as a central element of society, media and warfare.
Peter Kutin is an artist presented by the Shape Platform co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
8-27 September // Equrna Gallery
Aloïs Yang: Micro Loop Macro Cycle, video, 2018 Aloïs Yang: Distant Water Exotic Landscape, installation, 2020
The work of Aloïs Yang explores the relation and interaction between people, sound, and the external world. The media artist, performer and experimental musician uses sound as his primary material, as the communicational medium that is interconnected with data of context, visual, lighting, and human interaction. His work explores our understanding of time and space, on both the “outer” physical world and the “inner” metaphysical levels of awareness. His works Micro Loop Macro Cycle in Distant Water Exotic Landscape are presented in the group exhibition Paradise Haunted Garden in Equrna Gallery.
Aloïs Yang is an artist presented by the Shape Platform co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.