The poet, musician, composer and actor Andraz Polič writes about the elusiveness of the field between sound, noise and silence, filled with memory and the need for eavesdropping. »If we want anything in us and around us to speak or tune in, we need to shut up first!«READ MORE →
Zavod Sploh presented its activities in Berlin at a symposium “Imagining music in 2052 – contemporary music in global contexts” organized by Field Notes and the Akademie der Künste Berlin. The symposium was intended to reflect on intercultural cooperation, international networks and artistic practices in a global context.READ MORE →
The third edition of Sluhodvod was held at the IZIS festival. The main theme of the festival was the invasion, so Sluhodvod’s process began with thinking about the musical or sonic invasion of the space and it’s occupation.READ MORE →
Ivana Maričić about the new phase of a creative and conceptual collective process that brings together artists from various fields of art in the project Sluvodvod. This edition is titled Particles and deals with the phenomenon of sound from the historical, transaesthetic and transpoetic perspectives.READ MORE →
Introduction to the new cycle of musical and intermedia meetings and the introduction to the beginning of the process from this new collective.READ MORE →
“The festival Sound Disobedience emerged as an echo of the confrontation within a seemingly homogenous music practice known as free improvisation. This confrontation is its key moment, for it tears apart the seeming unity of this music practice and presents it in its own diversity.”READ MORE →
Ičo Vidmar’s essay about the musical and social traces of a practice in recent history in new music – that was called British experimental music. Essay includes interviews with John Tilbury and Eddie Prévost.READ MORE →
“It seems to be the case that it is only the freely improvised music of the last half a century that has decisively separated improvisational activity from composition making. This is on the one hand the result of giving up the idioms that connect improvised music with the act of composition.”READ MORE →
“The music on this double CD album is either extremely modern or immensely old. The basis for the material is sound. It is not music mainstream opinion recognizes. However, if we think of music as sounds organized by human beings then this truly qualifies as music.”READ MORE →