Experimental Tuesdays

Experimental Tuesdays are a series of concerts by small ensembles presented as a part of Sinfonia Varsovia’s summer season. The concerts are aimed at listeners who are interested in inventive, mold-breaking music, new forms, and innovative creative strategies. The events correspond to the challenges of modernity – man’s influence on the environment, the climate crisis, and the progressing digitization of life.

The repertoire features pieces with visualizations and electronics; some of the artists will augment their instrument-playing with performance art. The first edition of Experimental Tuesdays examined the relationship between music and nature. The visiting ensembles performed pieces by both Polish and foreign composers, including Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil, Agata Zubel, Rafał Ryterski, Piotr Peszat, Brigitta Muntendorf, Jessie Marino, Martin Schuttler, Carola Bauckholt and Matthew Schlomowitz.

Experimental Tuesdays are curated by Wioleta Żochowska.

What should a series of new music concerts at the orchestra’s headquarters look like after many months of listening to music via computer and loudspeakers? The Internet and the phenomena related to it have become an important point of reference for this year’s repertoire. The music will explore such themes as the merging of the real and virtual worlds, the impact of technology on the composing process, the corporeality and intimacy of listening, the perception of time, the role of tradition, the pace of life, and the rhythm of a deserted city. Five Experimental Tuesdays take five different looks at the new music – each of them goes in a slightly different direction. There is no main theme or leitmotif so that we won’t lose sight of less obvious references and be free to find what resonates the loudest on our own.

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