Sound Disobedience

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Neposlušno

Organised bySploh Institute

Frequencyannual

Festival dates5.11.2015 - 7.11.2015

Launched in 2012, the music series Sound Disobedience (in Slovenian, Neposlušno) describes its creed as an aim to facilitate conditions for music risk-taking and improvisation. Founded by Sploh Institute, which has been working on improvised music and theatre performing arts production since 1999, follows on the heels of the institute's other successful projects of recent years, the Con-Fine Aperto concert series and the regular workshop called Search and Reflect (in Slovenian: RR–Raziskava, refleksija). The festival is an extension of both of these projects, presenting the two in a somewhat condensed form.

By way of concerts, workshops, lectures, and other forms of communicating musical ideas and ideas on music, Sound Disobedience annually creates an international programme, which is co-produced by the Španski borci Culture Centre.

Festival programme

Of the hosted musicians, one can first name the UK musician Eddie Prévost, who was also the inspiration for the above mentioned Search and Reflect series and who led the workshops during the first edition of the festival. Other foreign guests have included John Tillbury (UK), Tristan Honsinger (NL), Christof Kurzmann (AT), Martin Küchen (SE), Okkyung Lee (US/KR) and a number others.

Some of the local improvisers who have played at Sound Disobedience include Ana Kravanja, Irena Tomažin, Samo Kutin, Neža Naglič, and actually most of the other musicians who are currently active in this vein of music. One of them is the trio Drašler/Karlovčec/Drašler, who in 2013 presented their album at the festival, which also complements the Sploh Institute publishing activities.

Sound Disobedience has a number of informal ties with other similar festivals in Europe, but these ties are more or less temporary and booking-based.

See also

• Sploh Institute
• Španski borci Culture Centre

External links

• Sound Disobedience page on Sploh Institute website