06.08.2022 | City Sonic Event @ Užupis’ Summer Culture Day | Užupis’ Art Incabutor – Vilnius (Lt)

Wild lutherie workshop - Hassan Alp Celikel (Tk)

The sonic instrument-making workshop is where people will get to upcycle daily items laying around in our lives into an exploration of timbre.

We will use plastic pots, cans, pipes, broken tiles, and more to make functioning musical tools and sound sculptures.

Anyone of all ages can join us to create these items and be a part of the exhibition outside with their creations and jam with them any time throughout the day.

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Sounds Bonsai - Installation - Hassan Alp Celikel (Tk) - 15:00

This sound sculpture of the Turkish artist, performer and musician aims to create an immersive environment where the ends of sound and visual arts meet and take the audience to a surreal dimension. The theme of Sounds bonsai is a mystery. The sounds and the visual aid reflect an alchemical settlement. The sculpture uses the pressure from the speakers to produce rates of smoke rings following the sounds, allowing the audience to listen and watch the sounds.

Hasan Alp Celikel

interdisciplinary artist who works in visual, performative arts, design, and music. Hasan’s journey in art started at an early age and has endured until now. He started his career as a progressive lead guitarist in his senior years and enrolled in Visual art studies at Nova Scotia College of Arts and Design University, Canada. Later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Ceramics faculty.

His specialty is sound sculptures created using Cymatics and designing melody percussive instruments since 2016. Hasan creates paintings, practices  Butoh and Contemporary Dance, and writes songs and instrumental progressive music. The artist aims to illuminate the alchemy through a magical mind through the surreal expressions appearing in his work.

City Sonic Mix - Paradise Now (Fr-Be)

A live mix of various pieces (electro landscapes, soundscapes, sound poetry, field recordings, etc.) produced within the framework of City Sonic since the creation of the festival in 2003 until today. This live listening session is an introduction to the different aesthetics and audio crossovers of City Sonic – defending the plurality of contemporary sound arts – which can also be accompanied by a discussion with the public.

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Sea K - Sonopoetique performance

Sea K is an adventurous performance, a free-from sound composition adapted from Jack Kerouac’s “Sea” poem (addendum to “Big Sur”, a novel written in 10 days, in the fall of 1960 visiting friends on the shores of the Pacific Ocean), played by actress Kristina Švečionytė and performer Kotryna Žilinskaitė together with sound artist Paradise Now. The “Sea K” performance gathers cultural references,poetic  allusions and sea stories.

The poem (a stream of consciousness in an experimental  form improvised by Kerouac haunted by the seeming emptiness of the sea) layers sound and senses together, imitating the sea’s noises while registering its meanings that will take us to be in and of the sea – tossed by the waves, washed up on the shore, drowned, and floating. Like its main poetic source of a timeless modernity, Sea K is an invitation to a rejuvenating drift between hallucination and light, human fragility and nature strength (sometimes a thread, sometimes a cure…), refusing to close any meanings or interpretations, opening to a variety of stimulations.

“Neptune now his arms extends
while one millions of souls
sit lit in caves of darkness”

Voice acting>  Kristina Švenčionytė, Kotryna Žilinskaitė
Live music >Paradise Now

Kotrina Žilinskaite (Lt)

Interdisciplinary artist who combines theatre, contemporary and butoh dance, and sound performances. Kotryna organizes festivals, and concerts, directs films and plays, creates and participates in artistic projects, performances, and happenings, and leads various creative workshops.

She is studying for a Master’s degree in Music Therapy at Vilnius University and working with the cultural organizations “Užiateka” and “Oasis – art therapy”.
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Kristina Švenčionytė (Lt)

Actress, creator, and performer, who has created over 30 roles in Lithuanian and foreign theater and cinema, as well as various performances.

He is currently studying in the contemporary sculpture master’s program of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, delving into performance art, audiovisual creation, combining text, its acoustic expression, and sculpture.
Paradise Now (Fr/Be)

Intermedia producer and creator based in Belgium, Philippe Franck has developed since the 90s the Paradise Now project which favours an actively transversal and collaborative approach. He chooses a sensitive and cinematic approach that embraces different influences and fields (electronics, sound art, post-rock, post-pop, improvised music …). He has worked closely with various international poets, choreographers,  visual & multimedia artists and other adventurous audio creators. Since 2005, he has also collaborated with holistic performer / masseuse Isa Belle (FR) for a series of installations and “sound” performances shown in numerous festivals, cultural centres and international events. He has also produced and participated in several records on various independent labels (Sub Rosa, Optical Sound, Tiramizu, Transonic…).

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