The Sanatorium of Sound is a festival dedicated to experimental contemporary music and the broad spectrum of sound art. Its main aim is to present the widest possible range of phenomena related to the development of musical forms in the 20th and 21st centuries. Thus far, the festival has showcased works by approximately 250 artists from around the world, many of which were created specifically in the context of the place during artistic residencies in Sokołowsko.
The Sanatorium of Sound Festival has been held since 2014 in Sokołowsko, a picturesque mountain village on the border of Poland where Dr. Hermann Brehmer once established the world’s first specialized health resort and sanatorium for pulmonary diseases. Currently, the 19th-century neo-Gothic building designed by the renowned Jewish architect Edwin Oppler is the seat of the “Laboratorium Kultury” created by the In Situ Foundation for Contemporary Art. The festival is Led by Zuzanna Fogtt and Gerard Lebik.
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This is the tenth year of the Sanatorium of Sound Festival. The upcoming edition is presented under the theme Time. Rhythm.
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All these years, we have tried to present a programme rich in experimental artistic activities, which will once again revolve around the issue of time. This edition, we will focus on the organisation of time in music–rhythm. It orders, subjugates, and sometimes also surprises, confuses.
We also see rhythm as one of the fundamental concepts to describe contemporary culture. The word ‘rhythm’ itself comes from the Greek rhythmos (ῥυθμός), which means coordinated movement, and is also related to the verb rhein (ῥέω)–’to flow’, ‘to move’. Etymologically, therefore, it refers to an organised, repetitive movement. In music theory, the rhythm of sounds gives meaning and order to a composition. But it also plays a key role in community building and the transmission of cultural values. Defined more broadly, still as an organising force, it affects both the functioning of individual entities and the structure of whole societies. At present, rhythm seems to be a concept undergoing intensive exploration and innovation, especially in the context of socio-cultural changes and the dynamic development of technology, as can be seen, for example, in computer algorithms, data processing and analysis processes or machine learning, which are based precisely on the rhythm of computational cycles.
At the same time, rhythm remains an effective tool for redefining one’s own corporeality and learning to carefully observe and embrace the changes taking place in the postmodern world. Henri Lefebvre wrote that one should listen to one’s body in order to be able to recognise the different kinds of rhythms surrounding us. Pauline Oliveros taught a similar practice. It is the body that serves as a metronome.
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During the summer installment of the Sanatorium of Sound Festival, we will discover new and surprising rhythms of musical expression. Sometimes they will be firm, tangible, or mechanical, sometimes barely perceptible, hypodermic, or dreamy. At other times they will be improvised, as if scattered, or precisely with this quality mesmerizing. We will check what happens to the meter when we put several rhythms together. The music will also pulsate in a rhythm dictated by algorithms, and we certainly won’t forget the body’s movement through which the rhythm flows following the DJ sets.
We will hear and see sound works by such artists as Jessica Ekomane, Chilling Bambino (Hania Rani), Thomas Ankersmit, Lyra Pramuk, Marcin Pietruszewski, Marja Ahti, Kolektyw Pełnia (Aleksandra Chciuk, Joanna Dreczka, Alicja Pangowska, Natalia Kędzierska), John Cage, Mieko Suzuki, Józef Robakowski, Judith Hamann, Paweł Romańczuk, SONIC TOMORROW (Hanna Grześkiewicz, Julian Rieken), Hubert Zemler, Jakub Knera, FORM AND DISPOSITION (Aleksander Wnuk, Piotr Peszat, Zbigniew Karkowski), Lucciolla, phil in a maze, Fabrizio di Salvo/reConvert (Roberto Maqueda, Mikolaj Rytowsky), Gerard Lebik, Paweł „Paide” Dunajko, Biuro Dźwięku Katowice (Mads Emil Nielsen, Moniké, Marcin Dymiter, Piotr Ceglarek).
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