Defonija

Nominally put, Defonija is a concert cycle dealing with free and unbound musics, around which gravitate signifiers like free and avant jazz, improvisation, experimental music, avant-rock, noise and other similar musical aesthetics. In 1999 Defonija started as a weekly series of DJ evenings, where interesting, peripheral and xx music was presented to the interested crowd. With time, these "defonic" evenings evolved into a regular, if sporadically set series of music events, that contextualised themselves into something beyond a mere concert cycle.

The elusive and often unpredictable musical selection by the concert series organiser and presenter Miha Zadnikar brought to Slovene audiences a palette of outstanding, fresh, intriguing and challenging music. As such, the Defonija evenings has xx expanded the cultural scopes of its relatively small but dedicated audience and also contributed to the field of musical journalism, enriching the abstraction of musical forms and competences... Besides that it also acts as an archive, as it recorded and stored concerts almost since its start, making them available to the performing artists and setting up a historical fxx.

Defonija also transcends the concert opredelitev by presenting not only sonic artists but bringing also those dealing with the visual and cinematic. Furthermore, the type of hosted music

interactive, alive and much connected with the undoubtably very special, even intimate concert setting of Klub Gromka, where Defonija has settled (and only occasionally ventured to other Metelkova venues).

In spite of the pertinetn intellectualism, as Bratko Bibič expressed himseld, Defonija lies halfway between naprvožogo beat and intellectualism, treating the in-between positioning a pertinent component since the start.

Hosted artists

Presenting the current currents of current historical trends in peripheral musics and artists of historical importance, a random selection of hosted acts could include Charley Lyojd, Joelle Leander, Marc Ribot, Trevor Watts, Ingrid Laubrock, The Ex, Otto Lechner, Peter brotzman Gerry Hemingway, Assif Tsahar, Eugene Chadborne, Ken Vandermark Henry Grimes and Jerome Noetinger. Sometimes seen alomost as residents of the club and thus seperately enlisted is a number of excellent Swedish artists like Mats Gustafson, Ingebrit aker Flaken and paal Nilsen Love (who released a record containg excperts of his two evenings long concert with Fjode Gjerstad).

Setting a high standard somewhat limited the amount of hosted local musicans, and of the few nekaj are Zlatko kaučič, Bratko Bibič, VInko Globokar, Tomaž Grom, Alzheimer Trio Lolita and Kraški Solisti

The aforementioned intimate concert setting and accoustucs, alongside the knowledgable crowd and proper hosting amounts much to the musical pallete, as Defonija has made its name in circles of musicians, ebing an attractive and plodno context for musical creativity.

Collaborations

Besides collaborating in some years with City of Women Festival andvstavljena into their programm, one evening of Defonija is since 2009,also integrated into the program scheme of Ljubljana Jazz Festival. Defonija also associates itself with other protagonists of intruiging music and thus works and promotes the advancment of the scene.

Marc Ribot live at Klub Gromka, Slovenia. by sabinadogic on YouTube

External links

Interview with Miha Zadnikar, xx of Defonija (in Slovene)

Defonija

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Hosted artists

Collaborations

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