THARSIS

Written for and dedicated to Julian Paprocki

Tharsis is the name of an enormous Martian plateau, a vast space on a scale incomparable to those on Earth, shaped by the raging elements.

The musical notation of the piece has an open form and serves as a map for improvisation and creative interpretation. The notated motifs correspond directly to similar ones in the spatial electronic layer, which should be treated as an equivalent of a traditional musical score. The performer co-creates the piece  interacting with electronic sounds and the space in which the piece is presented, and evolves with each subsequent, unique interpretation.

AUDIO ART Festival 2024, Kraków, Poland
Concert "Surface of timbre", November 23, 2024 
Tharsis starts at about 50:50.

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Although, as its name already suggests, the Audio Art festival focuses primarily on sound, it is not the only content of the event held by the Muzyka Centrum Art Society since 1993.  Visual elements often play an important role in projects presented here, and the audience’s interest is also aroused by unusual activities that hardly lend themselves to classification. Through concerts, installations and performances, the invited artists speak out about contemporary problems: migration and war.