Two day mini-festival organised by the Warszaw based record label and independent publisher MONOTYPEREC. including performances by Trophies - a beguiling trio combining Alessandro Bosetti's half-sung/spoken texts and the loosely krautrock inspired rhythm motions of Kenta Nagai and Tony Buck (also drummer of The Necks) - Joyous blasts of heavy noise and exploratory electronics from Komora A, Boris Hegenbart and more. The weekend will close with another trio featuring legendary drummer Charles Hayward (This Heat, Camberwell Now) alongside experimental sound artist Jacek Staniszewski and percussionist Andrzej Załęski.

NB: Unfortunately, Schloss Mirabell will no longer be performing at this event.

MONOTYPE REC.

MONOTYPEREC. is an independent label founded in Warsaw, in 2004. Stylistically, it focuses on the musical avant-garde, from electronic, weird techno, noise, drone, musique concrete and electro-acoustic to minimal music, free jazz, or EAI. At present, it is one of the most active experimental European music labels. Its catalogue includes over 90 items (CDs, cassettes, vinyl records, DVDs). Since 2009, MonotypeRec. publishes its own magazine (Irregularly) - "m|i ".

So far, we have organized several tours, and the artists grouped around the label are considered the leading creators of independent, avant-garde art. We cooperate with a range of media on a regular basis. Our records are reviewed and presented in newspapers and magazines such as Dziennik, Newsweek Polska, Gazeta Wyborcza, Machina, Polityka, Playboy in Poland and abroad in Wire, Sound Projector, DE: Bug, His Voice, Auf Abwegen, Rock’a 'Rolla, Pitchfork, OndaRock, radio stations (BBC, Radio France, RAI, Czech Radio, WFMU, Polish Radio Programme 2, Polish Radio Programme 3, Radio BIS, Roxy FM) and television (TVP Kultura). MonotypeRec records are available through official sales channels, both in Poland and abroad: CARGO UK (worldwide), FORCED EXPOSURE (US), MORR MUSIC (digital)

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KOMORA A (PL)

The Ambient is a genre of many faces—sometimes it constitutes merely a pleasant background music, the other time it can become heavy, dark and full of anxiety. Komora A—with its members: Jakub Mikołajczyk , Karol Koszniec and Dominik Kowalczyk—is much closer to the latter than the former. The band's music is full of barely masked anxiety, deep drones, subtle rhythmic fragments, dignified analog sounds and modular synthesizers, industrial themes and multi-level sound structures—and that's just a few of the elements used by the group to achieve its own unique sound. The music is improvised, full of trance and contemplation, filled with dark spots and seasoned with radical frequencies. Moments of silence border with dark, quirky electronics, just as meditation borders strong emanations of sound. Komora A radically experiments with music and the sound in general, making it interesting and surprising, creating with ingenuity and innovation.

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BORIS HEGENBART (DE)

Boris Hegenbart, born in 1969 in Berlin - Germany. Musician / composer of electroacoustic music and sound-art since 1996. Sound installations, electroacoustic concerts, performances, workshops and lectures in Europe, Asia and America. Soundscapes for theatre plays, dance performances and experimental radio- and video-art. Solo-performances and collaborations with different performers, composers, improvisation musicians and ensembles: Zeitkratzer, Kairos Quartett, Michael Vorfeld, Martin Siewert, Stephan Mathieu, David Grubbs, Fred Frith, Martin Brandlmayr, Felix Kubin, Werner Dafeldecker and manny others. At Transmediale, Club-Transmediale, MaerzMusik, Inventionen, Steirischer Herbst and at many other venues.

"Boris Hegenbart, whose collages sound like meditations at a street crossing with an invading swarm of locusts." - Taz Berlin #7214, 21/11/2003

"Boris Hegenbart, in his eletro-acoustic compositions,Hegenbart combines the aesthetics of 1950′s musique concrete with our day’s digital technologies of music production and sound synthesis, without restricted by the contemporary software’s limitations. for him, this software, as well as music-samples and the sounds of his every day life, become material to be molded according to his artistic intentions. this way Hegenbart creates the delicate and complex sound-scapes, he is well known for." - thoughts on music and related arts, www.straebel.de

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WE WILL FAIL (PL)

We will fail is a project focused on pleasure of wandering. field recordings, plunderphonic samples, synthesizers and electronic drum kits are mixed together to find some new, peculiar quality. Created by Aleksandra Grunholz - artist based in Poland, educated in graphic design and media arts. Worked on a field of performance arts, cooperated with many visual artists and musicans, member of artistic group OKO. Right now also working with Piotr Tkacz on Tirips duo - free interpretation of 'techno music' term.

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TROPHIES

Alessandro Bosetti / voice + electronics
Kenta Nagai / guitar + fretless guitar
Tony Buck / drums

Trophies is a project led by Alessandro Bosetti – voice and electronics. Focusing on loops of spoken/sung abstract and highly emotional text and features the fretless guitar of Kenta Nagai and the textural and pulse driven drumming of Tony Buck (The Necks). Trophies

"In the work of composer Alessandro Bosetti, the gap between music and speech gets a lot smaller. Both in his solo music and with his trio Trophies, he explores what he calls “repetitive speech-loop forms.” Frequently, this involves him recording people either reading lines or speaking extemporaneously, then transposing the recordings into written music. Often, Bosetti then speaks the same words himself in conjunction with that music. On his latest solo CD Royals and Trophies’ new album Become Objects of Daily Use (both released by Polish label Monotype), he constantly questions the roles of music and speech: whether they convey literal meaning, act as pure sound, or do something in between" - Marc Masters, Pitchfork

MIRT + TER (PL)

Covered by the moss dark beats combined with field recordings from wild eastern forests. Propaganda radio plays and class B movies soundtracks. Sizzling spaghetti and hazy arpeggios of modular synths. Rhythms melted in drones. Sometimes quieter than field recordings, which they like to use sometimes characterized by subcutaneous noises and repetitive. Cheaptune voodoo. Slowly evolving lo-fi loops. Subbass pulsations throbbing in the night air. Rites of passage.

Mirt: musician and graphic artist. Creates solo and in collaborations, he was member of Brasil and The Gallowbrothers Band & One Inch of Shadow. With both bands recorded 11 CDs (on labels like Last Visible Dog, Nefryt, MonotypeRec) and placed a lot of tracks on compilations all around the world. Conducts label cat|sun, and along with Jakub Mikołajczyk MonotypeRec. Graphic designer in Bocian Records. He was also editor-in-chief of the magazine M|I. With Marcin Łojek (Mantichora) & Krzysztof Sobolewski he runs Modularne.info - polish blog about modular synthesizers & XAOC Devices - small butique company developing modular synths.

His solo music is sometimes quieter than field recordings, which he likes to use. Sometimes repetitive but it can also be characterized by subcutaneous rapacity. Usually the sound is based on analog synthesizers, guitars, trumpets and acoustic instruments that he likes to electrify and process. Mirt also likes to think that his music oscillates between an organic lo-fi, ambient and psychedelia in the broadest sense of the word. He does not like adding philosophy to music, but usually he does it ... for example writing such notes like this one.Mirt released ten solo albums (for MonotypeRec, Nefryt, Foxglove/Digitalis, Backwards, BDTA and cat|sun).

On stage and in the studio he appeared among others together with TER, Hati, Wolfram, Tomasz Gadomski, Black Forest / Black Sea, Ray Dickaty, Angelica Castelló, Johanes Frish, Ralf Wechowski, Kentin Jivek.

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ANDRZEJ ZAŁĘSKI

Andrzej Załęski - musician and drummer, played in bands like: Multicide, Mitch and Mitch, 3 Metry, Za Siódmą Górą. Collaborated with: Joe Giardullo, Eugene Chadbourne, Charles Hayward, John Hegre, Tatsuya Yoshida, Pavel Fajt, Sylvie Courvoisier, Vinz Vonlanthen, Małę Instrumenty, Johannes Bergmark, Ralf Wehovsky, Jerzy Mazzoll, Andrzej Przybielski, Praffdata Band, Komora A among many others.

Co-creator of the Otwock Commune collaborated with the Gardzienice Theater and Akademia Ruchu Theater. Co-editor of the Alternativi, TV program. Editor in Chief of "Antena Krzyku" – music magazine.Filmmaker (The nature documentary series featuring films for Discovery Europe and TVP2), experimental films.

Since 1993 he is working as an art curator of the “Zone Progamm”, at the Center for Contemporary Art, Castle of Contemporary Art in Warsaw, where he organizes concerts, film screenings, festivals, media etc.


JACEK STANISZEWSKI (Facial Index)

Experimental sound artist, founder of multimedia collective/net-zine Neurobot, and CDR label Polycephal. Culture critic, journalist. Collaborated with such musicians and projects as: Wolfram / Dominik Kowalczyk, Membrana / Kamil Antosiewicz, Mołr Drammaz / Wojciech Kucharczyk, Jacek Sienkiewicz, Maciek Sienkiewicz, Viön, Anna Zaradny, Robert Piotrowicz, Andrzej Załęski, Robert Niziński, Jakub Mikołajczyk, Karol Koszniec, Zbigniew Karkowski, Matthew Hutchinson, Ignaz Schick, Jean-Christophe Champs, Mathieu Werchowski, Perlonex, Norbert Möslang, Alexei Borisov, Johannes Bergmark. Plays electronic improvised, often remarkably noisy, music based on software plus juxtaposed with live turntable treatment. Lives and works in Warsaw.




CHARLES HAYWARD

Charles Hayward (born 1951) is an English drummer and was a founding member of the experimental rock group This Heat. He also played with Mal Dean's Amazing Band, Radar Favourites, Dolphin Logic, and gigged and recorded with old schoolfriend and "Pooh and the Ostrich Feather" member Phil Manzanera in the group Quiet Sun project as well as a short stint with Gong. On one occasion he also played drums for the anarchist punk band Crass.

In 1976, Hayward and fellow Radar Favourites and Dolphin Logic member, Charles Bullen began practising with bassist Gareth Williams under the name This Heat. They began to experiment with tape loops, found sounds and keyboards on several sessions (recorded from 1976 to 1978, but not released until 1979). Finally, in 1979, This Heat released their self-titled debut album. 1981's Deceit marked the final new album from This Heat, Williams leaving just after its release. While Bullen began working as a studio engineer, Hayward did sessions for Lora Logic, The Raincoats and Everything but the Girl before forming Camberwell Now with bassist Trefor Goronwy and tape manipulator Stephen Rickard. The trio released several albums through the Swiss Recommended label. When Camberwell Now disbanded in 1987 Hayward embarked on a solo career which has continued to the present day. He debuted with Survive the Gesture (1987), Skew-whiff (1989) Switch on War (1991) and My Secret Alphabet (with Nick Doyne-Ditmas) in 1993. In 1998, he joined Massacre with Fred Frith and Bill Laswell. Between May and October 2001 Hayward drummed in Ted Milton's band Blurt.



Throughout the 90's up to the present he has initiated a large number of events and performances, including the series Accidents + Emergencies at the Albany Theatre in Deptford, Out of Body Orchestra, music made from the sound of the new LABAN dance centre being built which was choreographed for the official opening, music for a circus (part of the National Theatre's 'Art of Regeneration' initiative), the full-on installation/performance Anti-Clockwise (with Ashleigh Marsh and David Aylward) for multiple strobes, maze structure of diverse textures, 2 drummers, synthesizers and your nervous system. Recent developments include the CONTINUITY evenings as part of Camberwell Arts.