SOUND EXPLICIT 2021

X.U.L

Gašper Selko is a trumpeter of the younger generation. His music, presented under the name X.U.L, combines contemporary classics, minimalism, and electronics, and explores new ways of interaction between music and listeners. After graduating from the Ljubljana Music Conservatory, he continued his studies at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, where in 2018 he completed his master’s degree in the class of Tibor Kerekeš. He has worked in a variety of musical genres, from energetic metal, classical music, free jazz to folk and ethno music. He is a member of several bands: Leni Kravac, “MUSCAH”, Dirty Sanchez, Good Vibration, Yanu, Kamnik City Band, and collaborates with many renowned artists and groups.

rouge-ah © Tina Jenko

rouge-ah

Urška Preis, who works as a solo artist under the pseudonym rouge-ah, is a musician, harpist, visual artist, and music writer. During her studies at the classical high school, she attended the Music and Ballet High School. She completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana and took part in student exchanges at the Listaháskóli Íslands in Reykjavík and the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. In Leipzig she began to establish herself on the contemporary music scene with her solo project "rouge-ah". Her debut album "bare" was released by Kamizdat Records in autumn 2018. She and the electronic music producer Tine Vrabič - Nitz formed the II/III duo which debuted at the AmbientSoup label in 2020 with the EP "It Could Be Paradise". She is a member of Rok Zalokar’s fluid ensemble Zhlehtet.
Her performance at Sound Explicit will present her sound research of dreams which will be part of her second studio album.

OR poiesis © Boštjan Lah/Emanat

OR poiesis (alias Petra Kapš)

OR poiesis is an artist and researcher in the field of sound, sound perception, and poetic performance. She expands words in sonic spheres of the time–space poetry. Despite all the digital dimensions, her central interest is the physical presence of the body. In the broader opus of her artistic practice, she explores the modalities of silences and potentialities that are offered by silent environments in listening to subtle acoustic qualities of substances and voice. OR poiesis will present the "KAMIsTONE" project. It is an instrument with which the author tunes the frequency fields of rocks, performance space, and all present entities and invites into the sonic substrate of minerals and liquids. Field and material recordings are used in the performance.

Sound Explicit is a cycle of experimental sound events that represent a wide variety of genres – from sound research and various forms of improvisation to experimental sound projects. The cycle was first conceived in 2003 in order to support independent research and creative work in the field of contemporary sound art.

Organizer: P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, P74 Center and Gallery
Project Manager: Mojca Zupanič
In cooperation with: Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana
Supported by: City of Ljubljana
Sponsor: Pizzeria Foculus

Admission: 7 EUR
**Tickets are available at the working hours of the Jakopič Gallery and two hours before the event.