The Fall of Recording - Vol. I

THE FALL OF RECORDING
Vol. I

at 

Sanatorium Dźwięku
Sokołowsko
13/08/2016

Gaudenz Badrutt

Alicja Bielawska

Bożenna Biskupska

Alessandro Bosetti 

Johnny Chang

Bryan Eubanks 

Emilio Gordoa

Jonas Kocher

Daniel Koniusz

Gerard Lebik

Michał Libera 

Xavier Lopez

Mike Majkowski

Daniel Muzyczuk 

Keith Rowe

Valerio Tricoli

“I don't want to die. I want to live”. Several notes placed neatly on musical staff, quite catchy lyrics, you may say, and short introduction from a composer, forms altogether almost a song. But the song written down on 26^th of Febraury 1903 by a Czech composer Leoš Janáček in his notebook bears a different authorship than his own; he himself was nothing more but a recording device for an unintentional song of his dying daughter, Olga. These were her last words, and a last melody, uttered in bed just before she passed away; almost a swan song addressed to her father sitting by the bed but also to a man obsessed by the everyday passing of melodies of the world we live in. Words, noises, screams, animals and doors, hundreds of different birds and dogs and finally also his dying daughter found their ways to form short songs in his notebooks via the language of music notation. So do we know the final expression of his daughter? It's all there, on the staff. Perhaps a song, and if so, definitely of swan kind, a document or a memoir but also an emblem of the entire myth of recording media – a song made of dying and about dying or in other words: a recorded song about recording...

... to be continued in Sokołowsko