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In Silentium Veritas Orchestra
– ISVO
In Silentium Vinum Orchestra formed by the members of Zsolt Sőrés' free improvised music workshop at Köz.kemp'18.
The ensemble consists of János Donnák, Orsolya Kaincz, Eszter Lázár, Barbara Nyiri, Zsolt Sőrés, and Oxána Sztrehalet.
The cassette released as a result of the workshop was produced in a limited edition of 40 copies.
The work that served as the basis for the video installation presented in the exhibition was interpreted as a musical score by the members of the ensemble. (“Light Experiments” was created during Köz.kemp’18 in a workshop led by Attila Csörgő; its creators are Richárd Kiss, Tibor Nagy, and Szabolcs Vida.) The ISVO cassette also features an exclusive live recording with Katalin Ladik, who led the performance art workshop during the Erdőbénye residency.
The members of the music workshop approached the theme of ritual through extended instrumental techniques, real-time interpretative practices, the concept of an “individual-authentic language,” and the tools of meta-musical communication.
The sounds of the ritual, understood as an immaterial entity, were enclosed within an analogue, physical medium: a series of numbered cassette tapes. By their very nature, cassette tapes are subject to deterioration and decay; they therefore embody transience and, consequently, the value of reception itself.
We hoped that the installation would gradually disappear through distribution, leaving behind only traces of the spatio-temporal specificity of the musical medium: the concept itself as a space to be filled, a sacred site of sonic memory and representation.
For us, the musical ritual is far more a form of initiation than one of the emptied-out ceremonies of everyday life. It is a living relationship with life itself, continuously and ceremonially re-created. As stated in the declaration of the First Symposium of European Experimental Composers, adopted in Copenhagen in 1996, such a ritual leads its participants—both musicians and listeners—“towards a more active and creative form of cultural self-expression rather than towards passive forms of destruction.”
Orsolya Kaincz - clarinet, objects, effects
Zsolt Sőrés, artistic director - viola, electronics, objects, effects
János Donnák - DIY guitar, metal tray, effects
Eszter Lázár - angel sounds ultrasound, garage band, cymbal, taw, stormdrum
Barbara Nyiri - calimba, rainstick, spring instruments
featuring Katalin Ladik - voice (B/2.)