7th Contemporary Music Festival for Children: Little Warsaw Autumn
15-24 September 2017
Let’s play hide-and-seek with sounds. Let’s check if they can be caught or thrown as you
throw a ball. Let’s find out if you can play slow and fast at the same time. Let’s see how
to build a world from scraps of sound.
The Festival will traditionally begin in the Królikarnia Sculpture Museum Park with an openair sound installation. Krzysztof Topolski shall convince us that our Earth is an enormous
musical instrument that is continuously playing and emitting sounds. Is it the sound of a car,
airplane, or the hiss of leaves on treetops, or rainfall? Let’s find out, let’s guess! For the next
adventure, Tadeusz Wielecki invites us to the park: you will be able to hold sounds in your
hand or even see music… All thanks to a wizard mime and four musicians playing on
trumpets and trombones, glowing in the sun like sunflowers.
At the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, we shall experience a percussion
feast as well as a tale about Eugeniusz Rudnik, the legendary editor of the Polish Radio
Experimental Studio. How to build a world from sound scraps? That extraordinary man knew
how to achieve it. Natalia Babińska tells the tale of Eugeniusz Rudnik but also of the
exhilaration of creation, encouraging us to listen to the master’s last work, ERdada. And what
about that tempo? Can you play fast and slow at the same time? Does the size of the
instrument matter? When is something together and when separate? Using well-known
percussion instruments as well as the exotic gamelan from distant Indonesia, Miłosz Pękala
and Magda Kordylasińska shall familiarise you with the secrets of mixing rhythms and tempi.
Paulina Celińska
Little Warsaw Autumn Curator