Factory of Sound is workshop of improvised electroacoustic music for children at the age of 8 to 11. It is led by electronic musician, composer and teacher Nenad Sinkauz, together with percussionist, composer and teacher Nenad Kovačić. This educational project presents the little musicians of the future with microphones, effects, synthesizers, ... teaching them the art of improvisation through the use of their own voice, body and the audio equipment. Inside the Factory of the Sound, music is produced with the use of different objects, effects, live sampling, voice modulation, body percussion, but above all, through playing. This play allows the junior improvisation ensemble to reach a certain kind of instant composition at the level appropriate to their age, perception, and knowledge about music.
KONTEJNER’s kids workshop is going to end with the public concert of junior ensemble, on the 7th of June at 7pm, at the Mesnička Cultural Centre, free entrance. This year’s musicians of the future are: Bartol Knežević, Jan Knežević, Mak Rizvanović, Andrija Vidović, Barbara Vidović, Juraj Vidović and Šime Vukelić.
Factory of Sound has been done in collaboration with the Mesnička Cultural Centre, as a part of the project Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
Factory of Sound has been initiated and established in 2016 by musicologist Davorka Begović together with musician and composer Nenad Sinkauz, within the programme of the Music Showroom of the Culture of Change, Student Centre Zagreb.
Nenad Sinkauz (HR)
Nenad Sinkauz (HR) works as a composer and performer in musical, theatrical, contemporary dance, film, and multimedia projects. He obtained his master's degree in ethnomusicology in Padua, and in his artistic work, he explores unconventional musical forms and expressions. He is also oriented towards exploring improvised music, and his musical roots stem from the underground punk and metal scene of the 1990s. Through performance and composition, which are closely connected in his work, he is interested in the dialogue between acoustic and electronic instruments, the hybridity of combining musical and theatrical principles in performance as a research orientation for new performance formats. Sinkauz has been actively performing in Croatia and abroad for two decades and composes music for film and theater. He has won four Golden Arenas at the Pula Film Festival for film music. In 2002, he founded the band East Rodeo, collaborating with a number of international jazz and rock musicians, blending avant-rock, live electronics, noise, experimental, and improvised music. Sinkauz is the author and performer in the acclaimed audiovisual project ...day of the year and the co-founder of the international festival of experimental and improvised music, Audioart in Pula. Currently, apart from guest appearances with the multidisciplinary project Aphasia by director Jelena Jureša, he is involved in the experimental band Roj Osa and the improvisational big band CRI Orchestra (both under his own label Kopaton Records), the multimedia project Sicomat, and the band Truth ≠ Tribe, which blends contemporary club music, African and Balkan rhythms with the energy of progressive rock.
Nenad Kovačić (HR)
Musician and composer Nenad Kovačić (HR) has graduated Ethnology and Sociology at the University of Zagreb. He has been active as a musician since 1997 and acts as a percussionist and explorer of the Balkan and west African rhythmics. He is member of many bands and groups, such as Antenat, Sevdah Takht Damira Imamovića (Glitterbeat Records), Afion, Mimika, Truth≠Tribe, Chant Electronique, and he actively performs throughout the world. Within many different artistic projects Kovačić is very active and present on the Croatian contemporary music scene, mostly focused on improvised music and musical experiments. Since 2007 he has worked as the author of the theatre and film music and has composed music for around 50 theatre plays and documentary movies. One of his most important interests in music is traditional music (especially from the Balkans, Mediterranean and West Africa) he has been learning during different workshops, seminars, sessions and travel - among others also from the greatest masters of the west African percussions in Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso and in 2008 he has started leading workshops focused on west African rhythms and taught more than 200 students so far.