AnimotMUZIK

Eduardo Roan, Žiga Jenko, a l l j a (live sound event) and Ana Čavić: A thread without end, Act IV (Dawn) (performance)

Registration is required: pretix.eu/cona/animotmuzik2024/

 AnimotMUZIK is a concert series that takes place in parks and gardens throughout Slovenia. Invited musicians perform in natural environments, where the sound of non-human animals becomes the score or inspiration for their creation. The cycle is based on questioning established methods of musical expression and invites the audience to attentive listening. Emphasising a mindful experience of the soundscape, it spreads awareness of the importance of nature for human culture and its influence on artistic creation. It addresses an inclusive, compassionate, and sound-rich possible future, where the concept of music is not limited to the framework of Anthropocene thinking.

The ecological concert series starts every year in the spring, starting on the first Sunday in May, and marks the International Dawn Chorus Day. 

A joint concert of birds and music artists Eduardo Roan, Teja Vidmar and a l l j a [Alja Petric] will be accompanied by Ana Čavić’s performance A thread without end, Act IV (Dawn). 

Act IV is the latest piece in Ana Čavić’s ever evolving and potentially never-ending visual performance storytelling cycle, A thread without end, in which a mythopoetic creation story about a woman and an anthropomorphic fox unravels like a thread without an end… The artist will guide the audience through several episodes of a story – specially adapted for this event and entitled Dawn – with the aid of a set of elaborately decorated hand fans, simultaneously telling and showing the story in “fan language”. Using subtle gestures and facial expressions, alongside spoken poetry, Čavić’s performance aims to bring the historic language of fans to life for contemporary audiences, while immersing them in an analogue audio-visual storytelling experience. 

Eduardo Raon is a classically trained Portuguese harpist, composer and sound designer who lives in Ljubljana. In addition to international engagement, he also works in Slovenia. He creates contemporary and improvised music, playing with a kaleidoscope of ethno, noise, pop, retro, rock, ambient and electronic music. 

Žiga Jenko has been in love with music since childhood, without genre restrictions. Self-taught and an explorer of the sonic fringes. 

a l l j a [Alja Petric] kot pevka, pedagoginja in vsestranska raziskovalka posveča svoje življenje raziskovanju glasbene umetnosti, vodenju individualnih in skupinskih zvokovno-vokalnih delavnic ter terapevtskem delu z zvokom. Navdih za umetniško ustvarjanje išče v zvočnih krajinah narave in vsakodnevnem urbanem življenju prestolnice. 

Ana Čavić is a visual artist, performer, poet and an academic researching ‘performance publishing’ in which publishing takes place on the stage rather than the page. Her interdisciplinary practice combines the visual and performing arts and she works across different media and fields, including art, literature and theatre.

More about the concert series: www.steklenik.si/en/animotmuzik/

Production: Cona, in co-production with the International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC) Ljubljana.

Foto: Matej Tomažin. Arhiv Cona.