NeoArte – Synthesizer of Arts: NeoQuartet – Modern Multicultural Quartet

NeoArte – Synthesizer of Arts is an international festival presenting the most interesting trends in contemporary music and art.

In the contemporary landscape, the edges between different creative arts are getting more and more figurative. Composers write pieces for video-art and visual artists create sound installations. It is getting harder to differentiate, yet connections and finding common grounds becomes easy. We are acting a bit like radar – trying to identify these changes – a bit like sonar – navigating the unexplored areas. Like a Synthesizer of Arts – creating new qualities.

Performers
NeoQuartet:
Karolina Piątkowska-Nowicka – acoustic and electric violin
Paweł Kapica – acoustic and electric violin
Michał Markiewicz – acoustic and electric viola
Krzysztof Pawłowski – acoustic and electric cello

Programme
Agnes Ida Pettersen (NO) – Rhei for string quartet and electronics (2021)
Paweł Hendrich (PL) – Thall’Em All for string quartet and electronics (2022)
Anna Sowa (PL) – The Polish Chair for electric string quartet, audio playback and video (2022), video – Aleksandra Chciuk
Tze Yeung Ho (NO) – vihik (i) for electric string quartet and speakers (2021)
Idin Samimi Mofakham (IR)- Crystallum for string quartet and electronics (2021)
Martyna Kosecka (PL)  – Arkhe: Noise Maps for amplified string quartet, electronics and 3D mapping (2021), 3D mapping –  Aleksandra Ołdak

Modern Multicultural Quartet  is a project designed to present modern/innovative facets of string quartet setting. Starting point of classical acoustic instruments is moved through musical evolution and progress toward electronic medium with unlimited sound possibilities.  All these transmutations are presented from Persian, Middle-European and Nordic perspectives and with the visualizations by Polish video artists Aleksandra Ołdak and Aleksandra Chciuk.

Tickets
Early bird price, 24.02 – 10.03
Regular – 200 NOK
Reduced – 100 NOK (students, NMK member, Opera member)
Normal price, 11.03 – 24.03
Regular – 250 NOK
Reduced – 150 NOK (students, NMK member, Opera member)

Adress
Gamle Raadhus Scene, Christiania torv 1
Over the street for Rådhusgata 19, orange house.