FESTIVAL-IN-OPPOSITION
October 31 – November 02, 2019
Axel Dörner's first instrument was piano, which he initially studied at the conservatory in Arnhem, the Netherlands, from 1988 to 1989, and subsequently (1989 to 1996) at the Musikhochschule in Köln. From 1991
he studied trumpet with Malte Burba at the Musikhochschule. During the five years in Köln leading up to 1994, he worked extensively with trumpeter Bruno Leicht, as The Streetfighters Duo, The Streetfighters Quartet (with
Wayne Dockery and John Betsch), and The Streetfighters Double Quartet with, among others, Matthias Schubert and Claudio Puntin. During this time he formed the Axel Dörner Quartet with Frank Gratkowski, Hans
Schneider and Martin Blume, and The Remedy with Sebastian Gramss and Claus Wagner (and guests Peter Kowald, Tom Cora, and Matthias Schubert). Numerous radio, television, and concert appearances were made with these groups.
In 1994, Dörner moved to Berlin and the number of activities increased substantially.
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Tomaž Grom, double-bass player, author (1972)
Tomaž understands music as a medium of communication rather than aesthetic pleasure. He wants to find reasons for making music. Uncompromisingly he prods at social norms. For him, music is a form of
seeking, unanswered questions, the flow of ideas, unpredictable situations. The composition is improvisation. Improvisations offer him space to lose himself, to make mistakes, to come up with intriguing solutions.
In music, challenges invite thinking and open up new possibilities. He misses a deep and complex analysis. He is the founder and artistic director of Zavod Sploh, an association devoted to the production of music and performing arts as well as to education and publishing in the field. He curates the music festival Sound Disobedience. He also curated concert cycles Confne aperto (from 2005 until 2018), Zvokotok (from 2014 until 2018), and Neforma (from 2010 until 2014). He is the author of the
performances Bruto , Ništrc, Forgotten, Overlooked, Soul, Noize, Valve, and Wire, sound installation Skladba za harmoniko and a long term project iMstrument.
The closest collaborators in performing arts and movies are: Špela Trošt, Bojan Jablanovec, Tomi Janežič, Loup Abramovici, Špela Čadež, Iztok Kovač ... As an improviser in addition to occasional collaborations (Drago Ivanuša, Zlatko Kavčič, Michel Doneda, Jonas Kocher, Pascal Battus, Nate Wooley, Seijiro Murayama, Marc Ribot, Sonny Simmons, Doug Hammond, Axel Dörner, Eduardo Raon, Kaja Draksler ...), he ofen works with the following musicians: Samo Kutin, Vid Drašler, Jošt Drašler, Irena Z. Tomažin, Andrej Fon, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec ...He plays in the following groups: Tomažin / Grom, Samo Gromofon, Šalter Ensemble, Oholo! (with Vid and Jošt Drašler, Andrej Boštjančič, Marko Jenič, Andrej Fon, Jure Boršič) and Kaučič / Grom (with Zlatko Kaučič on drums).
https://www.sploh.si/en/about-sploh/a...
Festival-in-opposition is a platform for establishing relationships of art, education, and the politics of improvisation. This platform is oriented towards creating temporary zones of groupness, exchange, and support for improvisational practice that works/produces in sound, with sound, and around sound. Permanent ongoing drives - OUR 'Accompanyings' (Improvisations and Performance), JukeBox (Exchange of Materials), Sound Installation and Reading Desk - initiate artistic production in a festival format, with the intention of affecting and conceptualizing improvisation as artistic, cultural, and socio-political (against)an attitude opposed to the commercialization, trivialization, depoliticization and predatory utilization of art. Based on Company Weeks (the annual free-improvisation festival organized by Derek Bailey from 1977 to 1994) and Rock in Opposition (a movement of music bands which opposed the monopoly of the music industry during the 1970s), the Festival-in-opposition does not aspire to a place of institutions with authority, it already persists as a fragile hub of intersecting fluxes from the local and regional scene, just like the influences of creative energy coming from European and world metropolises.
Festival-in-opposition is part of the broader research project NOISM - New forms of research in contemporary music, which seeks to stimulate the development and analysis of contemporary art production in the long run, while also promoting practices in contemporary music and artistic creation with a particular focus on interactivity and group creative process. The project was initiated and developed by two organizations from Novi Sad: the Center for New Media kuda.org and the KNAP/IMPROSTOR Association.
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