Tomaž Grom: SOUL, NOISE, VALVE AND WIRE, performance

Photo: Marcandrea

April 21st, 20.00-21.30

The Slovenian musician Tomaž Grom created a music research of the former common space entitled Soul, Noise, Valve and Wire; with his team he travelled the republics of former Yugoslavia. He was looking for street musicians to accept the challenge: Offering his original music and recording their interpretations – to find out how an original score can submerge in the interpretation of street musicians and then again assemble into a new original whole. Tomaž Grom was looking for his new music and stories roaming the streets of Priština, Novi Sad, Tuzla, Maribor, Tetovo and Zagreb. Some of the street musicians are self-taught, others are academically educated musicians but for all their music is only an intersection of their lives, politics, tradition, survival strategies, love… By his project Grom is erasing or at least blurring the boundaries, which exist in the perceptions of people, boundaries between original music and interpretation, boundaries between different music traditions. And music is precisely the medium with the explicit potential to unite people and offer inspiration for new visions. On stage individual stories unite in the common music context, which knows no frontiers. Video and audio recordings from the streets are intertwined with the live performance.

Concept: Tomaž Grom
Authors and performers: Dario Krmpotić, Daniel Marinič, Šaban Karajić, Nermin Frljanović, Nevaip Saliu, Edison Shukriu, Gentijan Ymeri, Miroslav Matić, Tomaž Grom
Co-creator: Špela Trošt
Light design: Igor Remeta
On-field collaborators: Adrian Aziri, Algert Skenderi, Anes Husanović
Producers: Alma R. Selimović, Špela Trošt, Janja Buzečan
Production: Bunker, Ljubljana & Zavod Sploh in the frame of  Global City – Local City
Supported by: Ministry of Culture, Ljubljana City Municipality, Culture Programme of the EU