GDANSK 24–27.10.2024
NEO ARTE Synthesizer of Arts is an international festival presenting the most interesting trends in contemporary music and art.
MUSIC/VIDEO/PERFORMANCE
In the contemporary landscape, the edges between different creative arts are getting more and more figurative. Composers write pieces for video-art and visual artists create sound installations. It is getting harder to differentiate, yet connections and finding common grounds becomes easy. We are acting a bit like radar – trying to identify these changes – a bit like sonar – navigating the unexplored areas. Like a Synthesizer of Arts – creating new qualities.
NeoArte – Synthesizer of Arts festival exists to inspire, support creativity. Its idea is rooted in the artistic synthesis. To works as a platform connecting artists from various cultural backgrounds and realms of art by creating influential environment, a chance for new connections and interdisciplinary effects.
NeoArte – Synthesizer of Arts Festival has been organized every year in Gdansk, Poland since 2012. Starting from 2023, the NeoArte festival also has its foreign editions. It also organizes its foreign editions (2023 – Oslo, 2024 – Reykjavik). Its initiator is NeoQuartet – Polish string quartet from Gdansk, the prizewinner of prestigious Pomeranian Artistic Award 2019 and one of the most prominent ensembles in Polish contemporary (and not only!) music.
NeoArte Association is the organizer and producer of the festival.
4 DAYS OF CONCERTS, PERFORMANCES AND WORKSHOPS
During the four days of events, the audience will be able to participate in twelve multidisciplinary concerts and performances. Composition students will have the opportunity to take part in composition workshops conducted by Stefan Prins and in reading sessions conducted by NeoQuartet. Children will be able to participate in workshops introducing the fascinating world of contemporary art.COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE, CO-CREATION
The composer in residence of this year’s edition will be an outstanding personality in the world of contemporary composition – the Belgian artist Stefan Prins. He is considered one of the most creative European artists who in his artistic activity strives to criticize accepted conventions and dispose of aesthetic axioms using the latest technological achievements. Almost each concert is planned as a multidisciplinary performance, during most of them the audience will be part of the artistic processSYNTHESIS, ELECTRONICS, VIDEO
Among the performers we will see both leading foreign artists (Bozzini Quartet, Contemporánea – Live Electronics Denmark, Davi Bird, Tilen Kravos), and the most outstanding Polish groups and soloists (Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej, Aleksander Wnuk, Piotr Peszat, Tomasz Prasqual, Jakub Gucik, Ludzie z Vełny, Igor Torbicki, Marek Czech). Especially for the needs of the festival, a performance by Anna Zaradny and a video installation by Filip Ignatowicz will be created, which will be presented during the concert marathon at NOMUS in Gdansk.
Detailed program of events: HERE.
SPECTRAL MUSIC, ASIA, WORLD PREMIERES
The festival hosts, NeoQuartet, will perform several times, presenting the spectral world of music by Romanian artist Horatiu Radulescu, presenting new Asian compositions during the Asian Perspective concert, and performing a number of world premieres of multimedia works by composers from Denmark, Poland, Sweden and the Czech Republic, paving new paths for the string quartet of the future. We will hear dozens of compositions written by composers from all over the world, and seven of them will have their premiere at the festival. NeoArte – Art Synthesizer will once again combine what is impossible to combine in contemporary art and expand its boundaries.Bilety i karnety/Tickets and passes:
