Recorded live at NIANSA2k24 festival at Rakov Škocjan, Slovenia on June 2nd 2024. ROR QUARTET were: Boštjan Leskovšek - ROR, Iva Tratnik, Tatiana Kocmur, Borut Savski. This was a group built around sound artist, poet, photographer and friend Boštjan Leskovšek. This was his last public appearance.
Summer Songs, the second project of The Silent Movies duo, is an artistic environment comprising a series of sources of visual, sound and verbal information mutually dependent on each other. It functions as an never-ending concert, in which a video installation composed by a series of recent silent films made by Francisco Tomsich provide rough material, red threads and digital data to a sound ecosystem developed by Borut Savski.
Lately i am acquiring some finger dexterity again. The victims are some relatively newly developed instruments (turboguitars, turboflutes and cirkulinos). Here is a selection of cutouts from various live situations - mostly as parts of Cirkulacija 2 program - from 2020 onwards.
Interdisciplinary impro group from Celje Slovenia with the project name Umoblodnica (Iva Tratnik, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Estela Žutić, Simon Macuh, Dalibor Bori Zupančič, Amper-o-mat). A recording of the performance on May 20, 2021 Circulacija 2 | underpass Ajdovščina Ljubljana.
Generative algorithmic composition excerpts based on realtime video data for Francisco Tomsich "ELEGIJA | ELEGY" video installation presented from 10th to 21st July 2020 at Cirkulacija 2 Ljubljana Slovenia. Elegija (Elegy) is a mournful song performed by ensemble of video installations, sculptures and sound installation – made specifically for Cirkulacija 2 premises in Ajdovščina subway.
Field recordings in air and water during the Cirkulacija 2 visit in Finland. The place of rest and contemplation was at Future Lake near Helsinki and the performance place was on Merikerho club/ ship in Helsinki harbor. Boštjan Leskovšek was using the underwater recordings as his instrument. Here it is as separate album.
A recording of Cirkulacija 2 (Stefan Doepner, Boštjan Leskovšek, Borut Savski) performance at Merikerho club Helsinki Finland on 20th October 2018. Visit was part of two-way exchange between Ljubljana and Helsinki (Cirkulacija 2 and Koelse = Association of experimental electronics – Kokeellisen Elektroniikan Seura)
V gosteh v C2 je bil John Duncan, eden temeljnih sodobnih radikalnih umetnikov zadnjih štirideset let. Z Duncanom smo v veliki dvorani Cirkulacije 2 v treh dneh pripravili kvadrofonsko situacijo v kateri smo se zvrstili vsi sodelujoči. Domači sodelujoči: Iva Tratnik, Stefan Doepner, Boštjan Leskovšek in Borut Savski.
In 2010 Bogdana Herman and Borut Savski initiated the "Newly composed folk songs" project which resulted in seven public appearances and a compilation cd. In 2016 we started a new round of Slovene new-folk songs. First results are here ...
Double-bill/ triple action. On the occasion of Mike Hentz's Mental Landscapes lecture at Cirkulacija 2 - a concert occurred: Javier Areal Vélez – Argentinian composer and guitar improviser claiming to be open to any kind of participation visited C2. He was joined by the two local strummers: Leskovšek and Savski.Some participants so-far :
Nada ?gank is professional photographer who in the past decade has documented almost all the relevant cultural and subcultural events. She will presnt a set of jazz photos from 2001 to 2006 – documentation of events from mostly Ljubljana, but also elsewhere. It is a 10m by 1m long impregnated roll. It was recently exhibited in […]
Irena Toma?in studies philosophy, is a choreographer and dancer. In her last solo performance Kaprica (Caprice) she started experimenting with voice. With melodies, texts and vocalization she continues the experiment with sound event Glasovanja (Voicings; but really hard to translate: Vo(ca)(li)/(ti)(za)tions?).
In Graz, I will recontextualize (Austrian parliamentary elections) my public action, that I, as a formal representative of the Scarecrow State, performed in the year of 1995 on the route to Venice Biennale, on the streets of Venice and in the Zvezda park in Ljubljana.
BARBATO KANAK No communication. Just presentation. Barbato Kanak je pozoren na sekundne prebliske, na vedno nova obujanja lepega, globoka čutenja. Na štiri letne čase. Na Off. Na Eksperiment. YES. NO. NOMAD je potnik, ki se ne vrača. BOG JE VELIK. DREVO JE ŠE VEČJE. Barbato Kanak pays attention to momentary flashes, to constant evocation of […]
Materiality of ROR remembers the first inarticulate, mumbling voices, purely
organ sounds emerging from within the body. This memory is littered with events
over psychosocial conditions in time and space. Its binding are the responses of
flesh to the thinking of the machine. Hierarchy of thinking and the machineness
of life are the occupation and struggle of ROR’s primary origins.
Luka Prin?i? (alias: DJ Nova; born 1977) is a “copyleft” author, dj and programmer. Within the area of his research of open programming tools, the generative musical and visual (3D) approaches and the open performative practices his question is: what do we need to become an active part in the interactive action of an artist and especially with his interfaces/machines.
Stefan Doepner is an artist from Bremen, Hamburg, living now in Ljubljana. He has been involved in important artistic & social initiatives in the nineties and participated with various renown artists and institutions. His projects can be observed here (http://www.f18institut.org). He proposes a part of an installation with the working title LivingRoom – the project that is being […]
A former fashion designer (1983?1987), viagra she holds a BFA in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana (1989) and an MFA in new genres from the San Francisco Art Institute (2001). Her work has been concerned with communication and exchange in a broad sense of meaning. Her work in general has a […]
Formerly known as Bojan A?man, Chiron is the initiator of a LETS (“local exchange trading system”) web application as an educational tool to build up complex (more than one to one…) non-convertible value exchange system. Autonomy begins with value system. The web interface will be a model for additional projects of structures that are based […]
I can propose some of my projects, that would be presented as a sort of performances, partly workshops and some even as lectures. My work is a kind of weaving of some knowledge about life (of course) and things through discovering of the relationships that exist among particularities that form a structure that we usually call culture. It is a kind of deconstruction of these (cultural) structures and reconstruction into some new form which is usually an object making movements and producing sounds.
