Harmonics, flageolets, and other creatures invite you to Glisstory – a story about music for string instruments, illustrated with sounds.
You will hear the colourful and ornate music of Paweł Mykietyn and Iannis Xenakis, as well as works inspired by folk dances by Grażyna Bacewicz, Romuald Twardowski, and Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen. We will read excerpts from the wonderful books by Katarzyna Huzar–Czub that introduce musical vocabulary in a fun way, hum along, and move a little. And with the help of a beautiful red string, we will create Glisst(w)ories, which Hashtag Ensemble will read and improvise upon.
The concert is co-organised by the PWM Edition, publisher of the book series “Sonia w krainie Sonostwrów”.
Before and after the concerts, we invite parents and carers with children to enjoy treats at our café. The café is open from 10:00 to 14:00.
Performers:
Hashtag Ensemble string quartet
Anna Szawiel script and hosting
Kosma Standera sound engineering
Tickets available on the GOING app and at goingapp.pl
About the series:
ĄsąBąble are performative concerts featuring new music for families with children aged 0–7. Each concert is based on an original scenario in which listening to music, interactive play, and educational value are equally important. In a space friendly to the youngest listeners, you can hear music by leading contemporary composers, adapted in version and proportion for young ears. The theatrical format of the concerts fosters concentration and allows the audience to be enchanted by sounds, while the invitation to improvise together releases the natural need for expression in young people. In the spirit of Janusz Korczak’s words “There are no children, only people,” all participants are treated with respect and have their part in shaping the event. The series presents exclusively 20th and 21st-century music. A permanent element is the presentation of a recording of a symphonic work or a piece from the sound design and electronic music domain.
Although each edition of ĄsąBąble takes musical texture as its starting point, it is also rich in extra-musical contexts close to the practice of Hashtag Ensemble: literary, visual, and social. The events are interdisciplinary in nature: guest artists who have long worked in proximity to children’s imagination also take part – dancers, performers, illustrators, and writers. Theatre is a natural field of activity for new music, which is why the educational character of the ĄsąBąble series also includes the actors’ training of the musicians.
The curator and host of the series is Anna Szawiel – an actress and voice artist who specialises in interdisciplinary cultural and educational events. She enjoys working at the boundaries: between concert and performance, education and play, physicality and abstraction, always in touch with children’s imagination. The concert programmes are co-created by musicians of Hashtag Ensemble.
The ĄsąBąble project creatively develops the concept of the “Smykowizje” series by the “Muzyka jest dla wszystkich” foundation, within which Hashtag Ensemble and Anna Szawiel performed together more than 130 concerts and mini-performances between 2016 and 2022, seeking the most interesting forms of presenting new music. The concept and curatorship of Smykowizje was created by Anna Kierkosz. It was the first series of events in Poland addressed to the very youngest, in which contemporary music played the leading role.