ohrenhoch presents on Sunday 6 and 13 April 2014, 2pm - 9pm two works by Dariusz Mazurowski:

"Non Acoustic Symphony"
Electroacoustic composition - Special version for ohrenhoch gallery
(2014, Premiere)?
On the ohrenhoch loudspeaker installation in the shopwindow space
With exhibition of the sketches, spectrograms and scores

"Two Silly Dancers"
Video and Audio Installation
(2014, Premiere)
In the ohrenhoch basement

Dariusz Mazurowski on "Non Acoustic Symphony" [45:33]:

Non Acoustic Symphony is a large scale electroacoustic composition (in the past such kind of music was described as “music for tape”), which contains seven parts – each one has own dramatic structure and profile.

Non Acoustic Symphony is a treatise on the nature and coexistence of various sounds – from pure acoustic to pure electronic. Both counterparts have been processed, so many times it's virtually impossible to recognize the source. And there are many examples of hybrid sounds, mixed from various sources, processed with analog and digital tools.

Each part has an instrument, group of instruments or sound as a main theme. Subtitles in fact have nothing in common with musical sense, but reflect some ideas, passions and sometimes obsessions of the composer. As Non Acoustic Symphony is also a kind of a musical voyage through time and space – titles in general refer to famous Voyager (1 and 2) space mission, solar system phenomenons and selected objects. Anyway, this is not artist's intention to give any simple description or association – Non Acoustic Symphony could potentially be anything You, the listener, want.

Dariusz Mazurowski über "Two Silly Dancers":

Two Silly Dancers is a special kind of a journey through virtual space and real time – journey “frozen” in a loop, or a series of loops to be precise. The general idea behind this installation is based on a television and Internet role as a virtual alternative to real life. This is why we may observe mixed scraps and samples of various images, reflecting sometimes true events or directed scenes – but all as through TV or computer screen. So they are “unrealistic” real... Everything is assembled apparently without logical order, or seems to be beyond standard understanding. Some moments could be even provocative. This may symbolize a paradox of our existence, where serious moments overlap with lighter ones, sense with nonsense etc. And finally – all happen only on a TV screen... So what is real, what makes sense, what does it mean ? Two Silly Dancers installation has not been assembled to give any answer, if there is any program idea behind it – rather to ask questions. All in all, in our real lives we always have much more questions than answers.

Mentioned above journey is also a bit questionable – since we may watch a highway through the front window of a car, we stay in a gallery space with a video projection. Time is changing, image is changing, so what in fact are we doing ? Staying or moving ? Today television and other electronic media (especially Internet) have the capacity to trick many people, so they are unable to distinguish virtual world from real one. And as that virtual counterpart seems to be more attractive than a real life (wrong, that's a big mistake !), they abandon reality in favor of illusion. This may led to a nightmare like this installation.