The performance’s aim was to spread a symphonic piece throughout the space of the main street in Lodz\u2014Piotrkowska, the city’s most recognizable symbol. Artur Zagajewski’s Unhum, originally thought to be performed in the city’s philharmonic hall, and was recomposed accordingly to this specific situation and the site’s acoustics. Location of individual instruments was dictated both by the acoustics, as well as availability of flats\/offices from where musicians played. Sounds coming from within the street: actions of performers and accidental passers-by functioned as a counterpoint to the defined structure of the symphonic piece.<\/p>\n
„I was in awe before this beautiful performance which took place along one hundred meters of the legendary Piotrkowska Street. Lodz composer Artur Zagajewski stood with his easel in the middle of this cobblestone street to plunge into the vehement direction of a number of musicians located at different points of both of the sidewalks, as well as in the upper windows of the diverse homes. In this way, while he swayed his arms in grandiloquent gestures to be perceived from a distance, a beautiful flute played at 14 Piotrkowska Street while the violin sounded from the 3rd floor of 27 Piotrkowska Street, among others.”\u00a0Victoria Noorthoorn, Artforum, December 2010<\/p>\n
Projekt opiera\u0142 si\u0119 na wsp\u00f3\u0142pracy z \u0142\u00f3dzk\u0105 orkiestr\u0105 filharmoniczn\u0105. G\u0142\u00f3wnym za\u0142o\u017ceniem by\u0142o zestawienie utworu Unhum skomponowanego przez Artura Zagajewskiego z przestrzeni\u0105 miasta i akcjami d\u017awi\u0119kowymi powstaj\u0105cymi na \u017cywo. Utworowi wykonywanemu przez filharmonik\u00f3w akompaniowa\u0142o pi\u0119ciu performer\u00f3w, wydobywajacych okre\u015blone d\u017awi\u0119ki za pomoc\u0105 niestandardowych instrument\u00f3w.Muzycy grali z okien mieszka\u0144 i bram na ulicy Piotrkowskiej pomi\u0119dzy Placem Wolno\u015bci a ulic\u0105 Pr\u00f3chnika.<\/p>\n
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Unhum for 23 Musicians and 52 Passers-by performace, 22 min. Focus \u0141od\u017a Biennale, September 2010 in collaboration with Anna Szwajgier and Artur Zagajewski performers: Aleksandra Jach, Dariusz Jach, Dominika Jach, Maja Justyna, Micha\u0142 Ratajski and Lodz Filharmony Orchestra photo: Karolina Socha The performance’s aim was to spread a symphonic piece throughout the space of the main street…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[10,5],"portfolio_tag":[],"class_list":["post-124","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-venues","portfolio_category-concerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zorkawollny.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zorkawollny.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zorkawollny.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zorkawollny.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zorkawollny.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.zorkawollny.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"https:\/\/www.zorkawollny.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/124\/revisions\/2030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zorkawollny.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zorkawollny.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zorkawollny.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_category&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zorkawollny.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_tag&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}