"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.
The pseudonym Fluidian hides Emil Gherasim, a composer, musician and sound artist born in Carei, whose work includes electroacoustic and electronic music, chamber music, film and theatre scores, sound illustrations for contemporary dance and visual performances, and ambient soundscapes.
Valuska was the first opera written in Hungarian by Péter Eötvös, the internationally renowned composer, and the 13th opera of his career. The work is an adaptation of László Krasznahorkai's novel The Melancholy of Resistance. The premiere was scheduled to celebrate the composer's 80th birthday.
Matej Sloboda works with slow, seemingly static changes that, when listened to more closely, reveal constant micro-variations. With these, he composes very unique and powerful-sounding pieces, which are being performed for the first time in Hungary by the EnsembleSpectrum under his direction.