During this year's edition of the Soundedit Festival, the Skalpel duo will present a project dedicated to Lem, entitled "Lem's Planetarium". This is a tour of an entertainment and educational theme park inspired by the work of the great writer. On each of the "planets" they will be accompanied by musical guests. The project is co-organized with the National Center for Culture. The duo's musicians will also be honored with the "Man with the Golden Ear" statuette. On the same day (October 24), Lydia Lunch, one of the leading figures of the New York no wave movement, will appear at the Wytwórnia club.
Stanisław Lem often used his above-average imagination to imagine the unimaginable. His work was an intellectually sophisticated attempt to look at the universe from a perspective other than just human. He tried to define our place in the universe, our relationship with the cosmos and with our humanity. In addition, Lem was a futurologist who accurately predicted many inventions and aspects of our modernity - the future from Lem's books is our present. Stanisław Lem was born a hundred years ago - on September 12, 1921 - which is why 2021 was considered the year of Lem.
The Skalpel duo wants to take listeners on a musical journey to heavenly bodies created in Stanisław Lem's imagination. These will be musical emanations of the atmospheres and landscapes of the planets: Solaris, Eden and Regis III (from the novel "The Invincible"). Skalpel invited musicians who will represent the inhabitants of these planets to cooperate. The rich instrumentation, the use of various musical languages are supposed to surprise the listener and be the equivalent of meeting the unknown, the inexplicable.
Skalpel's
guests will be:
Kuba Więcek
a multi-tasking musician, saxophonist and producer, composer of the material on the album "Multitasking", which expands the boundaries of jazz, and the author of beats from the album "Niebo nad Berlinem" recorded with the rapper Koza. On the saxophone, he will interpret the fantastic forms described by Lem in Solaris created by the intelligent ocean - a mega-organism inhabiting this planet.
Piotr Orzechowski
known as Pianohooligan, an outstanding pianist, improviser, jazzman, interpreter of classical music. Known for his unconventional treatment of keyboard instruments. His improvisational skills will be as useful as astronauts trying to communicate with the inhabitants of the planet Eden, whose totalitarian system is supported by the strange achievements of a genetic engineer.
Paweł Romańczuk
leader of the artistic group Małe Instrumenty. A multi-instrumentalist who constantly creates new instruments on which he creates a musical multiverse. Its constructions will represent the "necrosphere", a population of mechanical organisms that have taken over Regis III. For listeners, as well as for people who crash landed on this planet, it can be a difficult and unpleasant experience.
At the end of the performance, it is planned to return to planet Earth. All the musicians taking part in the concert will create a band that will make the time of the participants of the Futurological Congress from Lem's famous novel more pleasant. It will be a set of freaks that no futurologist in the twentieth century could have predicted.
In addition, Eugeniusz Rudnik, a pioneer of electronic and electroacoustic music in Poland, will be virtually accompanied on his journeys between the planets, honored with the "Man with the Golden Ear" award at the Soundedit Festival (2012). For this purpose, sound design will be used, created by him for the film "Test Pilot Pirxa", which is an adaptation of a short story by S. Lem.
Visuals by:
Tomasz Gawroński/Tving Stage Design
and special quest
Skalpel's concert takes place as part of the Soundedit '21 Festival co-organized by the Art Industry Foundation and the National Center for Culture. Financed by the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport.
