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Moby Dick © Adam Żebrowski

Jerzy Kornowicz © Małgorzata Kosińska

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6 Festival of Traditional and Avant-
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garde Music ‘CODES’
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RMa [Q]]XTTXQR gh: Lidia Zielińska (Missing Link)
[KLJNQLT: Jerzy Kornowicz, Jan Bernad Moby Dick
QLYJRXZML: Crossroads Centre For Intercultural Creative
Initiatives [Q]\QTML: Eugeniusz Knapik
\IJ[M: Lublin SXLM[NQL: Barbara Wysocka
IXgLMNNQ: Krzysztof Koehler
[QRSK[NQL: Gabriel Chmura
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QLYJRXZML: Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera
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CODES is a festival at which the world of traditional music
(dance music with local ensemble Czarne Lwy (Black Lions) bit.do/culture-knapik
or lectures on Nō theater) exists alongside the Western bit.do/moby-dick
avant-garde (Kronos Quartet, Thurston Moore from Sonic
Youth). Sometimes, however, they meet together. This is what
has happened in Missing Link, a sound show by Zielińska in This is a tale about humanity’s relationship with God. […]
which, alongside live electronics and ampliked viola, we hear We are dealing here with a psychological attempt to examine
traditional song and the hurdy-gurdy typical of the Ukrainian what suuering is, what triggers it, how easily it morphs into
bards. The show speaks of a peculiar type of silence – the hatred and a desire for revenge.
silence that follows after a horrible catastrophe. — Eugeniusz Knapik

In the musical plane, there are many references to the past
here: Szymanowski, Wagner, Górecki. We also hear Wacław z
Szamotuł’s prayer Już się zmierzcha [Sun Is Setting] – the same
one utilized many years earlier by H. M. Górecki, Knapik’s
teacher.

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