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 :
Sodobna ideologija atomizira družbo v izkoreninjene posameznike. Iz ideološkega primeža poplave (dez)informacij smo sestopili in prevprašali elemente aparatov nadzora ter jih privzeli, prerazporedili in s tem spremenili njihovo namembnost — pretvorili smo jih iz merilnih v izrazne inštrumente*. Te smo zvezali v stroj, ki skozi vklope, preklope in prekinitve oblikuje instrumentarij, ki sklaplja gibanje, slikanje […]
V soboto, 27. septembra, ob 20h vabimo v Cirkulacijo 2 na nastop Kontinuitete postranih snovi Johna Grzinicha ter projekcijo celovečernega dokumentarca hEXPO, pred-premiera Marka Košnika. “Kontinuitete postranskih snovi” je 25 minut trajajoča časovno zamaknjena video projekcija z živim monologom in zvočno podlago. Delo se osredotoča na razmerja med pokrajino, časom, infrastrukturo, odmaknjeno zaznavo in podnebjem. […]
