In conversations

We open the sound season at KONTEJNER with a concert evening dedicated to musical conversation, i.e. sound and sonic dialogues and common musical vocabularies of two duets. Guitarists Luka Čapeta and Pavle Jovanović have been collaborating intensively for 5 years, during which they have performed in a variety of combinations – bands, ensembles, orchestras. The situations in which they have played together are very diverse, whether stylistically, genre-wise, conceptually, in terms of the number of other participants – co-authors and musicians, and various other details. In their mutual interaction and musical conversation, within smaller or larger groups, Čapeta and Jovanović have created a unique way of communication and their own common music vocabulary over the years. Rooted in improvisational practices, their musical language is often exceptionally loud. It is intense and complex. Just like their relationship. But above all, it is artistically sincere and full of mutual musical understanding, and their means of communication will be electric guitars, pedals, computers, and DIY instruments.

Communication between the two, that musical communication above all, is the focus of the second duet of the evening as well, consisting of clarinetist Lori Freedman and vocalist Vesna Pisarović. Unlike Čapeta and Jovanović, who developed their duo vocabulary over 5 years, Freedman and Pisarović only have 5 days at their disposal. Pisarović's musical language includes jazz vocabulary and extended vocal techniques, while Freedman's music is influenced by the musical idioms of 20th century music with her own specific bass clarinet sound techniques. During the one-week artistic residency at KONTEJNER, which precedes the concert, the musicians will try to find a common musical vocabulary of the newly created duo through mutual musical acquaintance. Starting from a joint performance, listening, conversation, playing, recording, listening, playing, talking, listening, analysing, ... Through the duo's new vocabulary, they will develop an understanding of what they are trying to communicate in sound - both to each other and to their listeners.

The evening of sonic dialogues begins with Freedman's improvisation set "Break Out" on clarinet and bass clarinet. Although it is a solo performance, here too the emphasis is on communication in sound - the relationship between the musician and the audience. As Freedman herself points out, the audience and she together experience real-time creation and performance - defining a time period with sound, opening up the possibility for spontaneous harmony of disparate elements and for encounters of difference and sameness that flow through space and time.