Instalakcje 8 includes four music workshops, open to all regardless of age, level of knowledge or musical ability. Zorka Wollny will lead workshops involving voice training, including learning how to play the voice. Ewa Justka meanwhile will show how to build a synthesiser from scratch – a voice odder. Those taking part in both workshops will share the outcomes of their work during the first day of the festival, as part of a concert-installation crafted for choir and orchestra made up of electronic instruments.  

On Sunday morning, we invite you to join us in performing an amazing, joint symphony, directed by Dobrawa Borkała (a breath work therapist) who will show us how to discover our own inner music, how to create rhythms with our breathing, how to release its melody and resound with our whole chests. Once the participants have been prepped, they will take part in this unconventional concert, during which sitting down to listen is merely one of the ways we can experience music...  

Day Rave is a sort of workshop-performance aimed at an actively participating audience, involving meditation, a tea brewing ceremony, visualisation, working with the body, live music, as well as dance, which the public will be invited to take part in. Day Rave, based on notions of clubbing culture, is however something more than a techno party, being a very complex and holistic seance, allowing us a more spiritual or else sensual experience of music. Day Rave has been created by a collective based in Berlin: Isabel Lewis (Dominican Republic /USA), Dambi Kim (South Korea), Lou Drago (New Zealand) and Margherita D'Adamo (Italy). The original version of this Day Rave was performed at the Berlin Martin Gropious Bau museum of contemporary arts, where it was very well received by both critics and audiences.  

Instalakcje 8 will also involve presentations of the works by two legendary composers: Brian Ferneyhough and Georges Aperghis. The first day of the festival will open with a recital by Ine Vanoeveren, a Belgian flutist who has devoted many years to academic research (doctorate thesis) and performing in order to delve into the mysteries of the extremely difficult music composed for the solo flute by Brian Ferneyhough – one of the most important composers at work today. The music composed by this British artist belongs to a movement called new complexity, and according to Vanoeveren's own writings, presents musicians with endless challenges related to the instrument's limitations, the limitations of writing music down using classic staves, or else the limitations of the human body and mind, forcing the musician to exert themselves physically, athletically even, in order to play this fascinating music.  

The first day of the festival will close with a performance by Donatienne Michel-Dansac, a world-renowned contemporary singer. In this piece, Aperghis dismantles the voice into elementary particles: notes, whistles, chants, in order to add gradual layers and craft ever more complex, virtuoso compositions and sound-word structures.  

 In his solo voice music, Aperghis shows off his skills as a composer from the very foundations, step by step allowing us to sense how much of a journey must be undertaken from a single inhale, an individual letter, to creating a complete voice, a breath-syllable symphony.  

Wojtek Blecharz, Curator Instalakcje 8.

The possibilities within music are vast. I would even say they are genius. We can, must and should continue to experiment. If we hear someone say that everything has already been written, this means that someone is an idiot, and knows nothing about music's potential. Music is the most beautiful of all arts.  

Bogusław Schaeffer 1929-2019