The Fugitive Visions is a multimedia concert featuring artists of the Polish contemporary music scene, but also Marian Oslislo – a graphic artist associated with the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. The alliance of music and the visual arts is historically well documented but seems to have grown stronger in recent years. The idea of the concert was inspired by the art of improvisation and graphic compositions by Ewa Synowiec, who died last year.
The pieces included in the programme treat the issue of improvisation in a peculiar way – it is precisely this that is the common denominator of the compositions. The first piece will be a work by composer and organist Dariusz Przybylski – Chamber Symphony, which was premiered at the end of 2021 at the NOSPR in Katowice. The piece presents the colorfulness and textural possibilities of a chamber orchestra. The Music of Illusions by Adam Porębski is a musical adaptation of the phenomenon of illusion. The composer uses an original technique consisting in controlled performance gestures, thus creating visual and auditory illusions. Phantomaticon – the work of Paweł Hendrich, the festival’s Artistic Director, intended for chamber orchestra, piano and computer – is in fact a piano concerto. As the artist himself emphasizes, the composition draws on the futurological concepts of Stanisław Lem.
Diabolus in musica, Japanese Fairy Tale, NDSL, Birds Eye Landscapes – these are the titles of Ewa Synowiec’s graphic compositions created in the 1980s. Her activity encompassed composition, music theory, and pianism. Her interests went beyond the traditional form of the score, and while looking for new means of expression, the artist turned to visual arts. A fantastic opportunity to get acquainted with her work will be listening to improvisation to the graphics created live by Marian Oslislo.