"The primeval essence of color is a phantasmagorical resonance, light become music. At the
moment when thought, concept, formulation, touch upon color, its spell is broken, and we
hold in our hands a corpse.”
Dakoda, a group of up-and-coming young Hungarian percussionists already familiar to the House of Music audience, and The Monochrome Project, an eight-trumpeter ensemble from Cologne, will perform rarely heard monumental masterpieces of 20th and 21st-century music.
Ilona Keserü's exhibition comes to life with a colorful and improvisational performance of dance and percussion music by Márton Szives and Julien Klopfenstein, where sound, movement, and visuality intertwine.
The works, which can be seen until the end of March, are connected by “silence”, as visitors can watch films in the exhibition space with the common feature of having no sound accompanying the projected sequences.
In January 2023, Ernő Rubik launched the "364 Days" composition project, a creative experiment, the completed works of which will be performed: compositions by Ákos Nagy and Márton Bujdosó, along with a comprehensive musical reflection by György Bartók.
The CentriFUGA as a Contemporary Music Community, a group of composers from Budapest's longstanding, continually evolving, and expanding contemporary music community, is once again connecting with the Transparent Sound New Music Festival.
Five contemporary composers — Bálint Baráth, Bálint Bolcsó, Attila Dóra, Samu Gryllus, and Andrea Szigetvári — will present five pieces at this concert. The musical works were inspired by reflections on János Kalmár's Metaxu theme and his group of sculptures.
In Judit Varga's full-length work, human and machine form a virtuosic piano duo: the classical acoustic piano "duels" with the computer-controlled Disklavier.
The chamber music adaptation and contemporary reinterpretation of Prokofiev's lost ballet is a unique feature of the opening event of the Transparent Sound New Music Festival.
Infermental, the international videocassette magazine initiated by Gábor Bódy between 1981 and 1991, which served as a pioneering platform for alternative media culture and contemporary audiovisual trends, will be presented at the Átlátszó Hang New Music Festival’s film club during a screening and lecture by András Keskeny.
