KODY [CODES]—the Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde Music—is a new festival on Lublin’s cultural map. The first edition took place in May 2009. This year’s edition will be held from May 14 – 18, 2015.
The Festival is an international event devoted to the idea of combining the archaic and the new in music. The mixture of two distinctive canons of aesthetics forms a completely unique listening experience where magic and beauty co-exist. The festival gives excellent contemporary music composers and the representatives of the avant-garde jazz an opportunity to meet traditional musicians and artists reconstructing old music. The offer of the Festival includes concerts and the premieres of music projects by recognized artists, as well as young and talented musicians and composers. Lublin-born Jerzy Kornowicz, the commissioner of the Festival, is himself a composer of contemporary music and the president of Polish Composers’ Union.
This year’s edition brings together a fascination combination of performers—including Belgium’s Grandelavoix Vocal Ensemble, Poland’s Kwartludium and Austria’s Wiener Glasharmonika Duo—and repertoire from around the world. A program highlight includes the Polish premiere of three works commissioned by the Festival by young Polish composers: Krzysztof WOŁEK – Błoto / Mud (2015), Jarosław SIWIŃSKI – Timecode (2015) and Artur ZAGAJEWSKI – Woodcuts (2015), which will be performed by the US ensemble Bang on a Can on May 17 at 8 p.m. during a concert entitled “Field Recordings – Layers of Peculiarities.” For a full listing of all concerts, visit: kody-festiwal.pl.
[Source: kody-festiwal.pl]