What is new music like? You will find an answer to this question during the matinée concert featuring the Wrocław-based telam::ensemble:. Founded in 2024, the group promotes the fusion of hearing and movement in live performance. This concert, part of the series of Sunday matinées, will be an excellent opportunity to experience art born from contemporary life. Art by six female composers.

The concert’s premise is to address intimacy in an age of constant digital spectacle. The programme will feature contemporary works by Polish and international authors. Żaneta Rydzewska’s Rosati is a sound performance addressing the theme of self-punishment in times of perfectionism and creative compulsion. The Spanish composer Helena Cánovas Parés has seated four readers side by side, reading a different book in each performance. Public Privacy #1: Flute Cover for flute using YouTube is by one of Germany’s most important sound artists, Brigitta Muntendorf. Malin Bång’s  underpassing deploys the sensorially intriguing, amplified sounds of rubbed ceramic tiles and a corrugated pipe. From Joanna Bailie’s portfolio, telam::ensemble:. selected Trains, in which train sounds are electronically processed. Finally, Kelley Sheehan’s R.A.M. has a film score for four musicians, visible to the audience.

“The group’s name, telam, comes from Latin and denotes a web, for example, a spider’s web. Because of their poor eyesight, spiders rely on the vibrations of their webs to be aware of their situation. In this way, we too will use our hearing to sew, weave, and imitate sounds, blending them. The result of this process is a translucent texture,” the performers explain. Modern ensembles not only extract sounds but also create ambiguous onstage situations in an admirable way. The artists of telam::ensemble:., aware of the performative nature of music, share traditional artistic disciplines. The group’s leader is the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic flautist Mar Sala Ramagosa – one of many female musicians of the Wrocław orchestra.