What is this year’s Musica Polonica Nova festival about? Above all, it is about inspiration, fluid boundaries and connections. The history of contemporary music, like every art form actually, is conditioned by two tendencies. The first is to strive to maintain autonomy and continuity of tradition, the second is to search for new inspirations and means of expression. For a long time, musical art was primarily an art of its own matter drawing inspiration and driving force for development from itself. Yet nowadays the fear of the influence of external trends has weakened, and composers are increasingly drawing inspiration from both the dominant popular culture and plentiful subcultures. Boundaries in art still exist, but it is becoming easier to cross them. Contemporary music is no longer elitist, it is opening up to the world of everyday life and non-connoisseur audiences, outside academia. Sometimes it makes critical interceptions, venturing into the vast field of pop culture. But it also happens that composers simply and sincerely, without a hint of irony, take full advantage of popular music, enjoying its energy.
POP Culture / subculture
Edition 2024
71/42 #1
Maciej Koczur / SoundCheck – New Music Ensemble
10.04.2024
Wed.
6:30 PM
NFM, foyer -3
Poview
LutosAir Quintet
10.04.2024
Wed.
7:00 PM
NFM, Black Hall
71/42 #2
Aleksander Stachowski
11.04.2024
Thu.
6:30 PM
NFM, foyer +2
AccordiON/OFF
Concert of Polish Composers’ Union Wrocław Division
11.04.2024
Thu.
7:00 PM
NFM, Black Hall
Finnegans W/Fake | Polish Theatre in the Underground
Accompanying event
11.04.2024
Thu.
7:00 PM
Piekarnia – Centre for Performing Arts of the Grotowski Institute
POP-up
Ensemble Kompopolex
11.04.2024
Thu.
8:00 PM
NFM, Chamber Hall
Avant –– Pop
Event in partnership with Glissando
12.04.2024
Fri.
5:30 PM
NFM, foyer -1, red banquettes
71/42 #3
Maciej Koczur / Artur Zagajewski
12.04.2024
Fri.
7:00 PM
NFM, foyer+4
Maximum
Pierre Jodlowski / Aleksander Wnuk
12.04.2024
Fri.
7:30 PM
NFM, Red Hall
Trio – Riot
NFM Leopoldinum String Trio
12.04.2024
Fri.
8:15 PM
NFM, Chamber Hall
Blood
Piotr Damasiewicz / Kuba Wójcik
12.04.2024
Fri.
9:00 PM
NFM Spaces
71/42 #4
Maciej Koczur / Caroline Mayrhofer
13.04.2024
Sat.
5:00 PM
NFM, foyer -1
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13.04.2024
Sat.
5:00 PM
NFM Spaces
TransOrganic // 1
Jan Paweł Przegendza / Maciej Michaluk
13.04.2024
Sat.
5:30 PM
NFM, Main Hall (ground floor)
Transfusion // 1 – installation
Piotr Damasiewicz / Kuba Wójcik
13.04.2024
Sat.
5:45 PM
NFM Spaces
The Body of Water – installation
 
13.04.2024
Sat.
6:00 PM
NFM, foyer -3
kOMNata 1, or the Kingdom of Things and Pleasures? Dopamine
Szymon Bywalec / Ensemble OMN
13.04.2024
Sat.
6:30 PM
NFM, Red Hall
Transfusion // 2 – video-art
Piotr Damasiewicz / Kuba Wójcik
13.04.2024
Sat.
7:30 PM
NFM Spaces
TransOrganic // 2
Jan Paweł Przegendza / Maciej Michaluk
13.04.2024
Sat.
8:00 PM
NFM, Main Hall (balconies)
Am I AI?
NeoQuartet
13.04.2024
Sat.
8:30 PM
NFM, Chamber Hall
Transfusion // 3 – performance
Piotr Damasiewicz / Kuba Wójcik
13.04.2024
Sat.
9:15 PM
NFM Spaces
TransOrganic // 3
Jan Paweł Przegendza / Maciej Michaluk
13.04.2024
Sat.
9:30 PM
NFM, Main Hall (choir, stage spaces)
kOMNata 2, or Parallel Realities, Avatars
Szymon Bywalec / Ensemble OMN
13.04.2024
Sat.
10:00 PM
NFM, Red Hall
Zone of Movement: Is New Music a Subculture?
Event in partnership with Ruch Muzyczny
14.04.2024
Sun.
4:30 PM
NFM, foyer -1, red banquettes
71/42 Finale
Maciej Koczur / SoundCheck – New Music Ensemble
14.04.2024
Sun.
6:00 PM
NFM, Black Hall
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14.04.2024
Sun.
7:30 PM
NFM, Red Hall