ARCHIVE / November 24, 2024
Audio Art Festival - Kraków
November 24, 2024, 7 pm
INSIDE OUT LT
Josep-Maria Balanyà, Solo Piano
Academy of Music - Świętego Tomasza 43, 33-332 Kraków, Poland
Audio Art is an experimental and postmodernist art of the close of XX century and the beginning of the XXI century. Audio Art is an integration of sound and visual art. Presentation of Audio Art appears in the form of the concert, performance and installation. Audio Art creates new concept of sound source: as an object and musical instrument in certain space and time. Audio Art is a "one person art": composer, designer and performer unify the whole process of art creation. Audio Art uses low and high technology. Audio Art Festival presents individual artists from all over the world. The festival also presents other non-audio art events, extending the whole image of the art based on sound.
Audio Art Festival events are webcasted live.
About Inside Out LT
Much before playing prepared pianos became a common place, decades ago, Josep-Maria Balanyà began to use these techniques and has since recorded multiple albums.
However, for a certain time now, Balanyà has been giving concerts using only the traditional piano technique. The result, though, is quite far from that of a classical piano due to his use of the sostenuto pedal and other techniques. This is accompanied by occasional reverb and delay
It could be argued that Balanyà’s sound emerges from the amplified piano outwards in a way that, even if it is just low technology, it can feel electronic to the ear.
The duration of the concert is approximately sixty minutes, without breaks between the different movements. This continuity allows for a dramaturgy that unites each piece or movement, thus resulting in a unique work.
The sound material that Balanyà uses delves into elements of contemporary music, jazz, free music, experimental and, fundamentally, his creative, living and permanent experience.
This music is an abstract interpretation of human feelings throughout their never-ending story of love and hate. Listening to this music might feel like being caressed and skinned alive at the same time.