After six years of absence Eivind Aarset returns to Poland. This time he will present his new project with Sonic Codex Orchestra, which has not been shown in our country. The guitarist talks about the evolution of his music, heavy metal influences and the freedom which comes from electronics.

His opera “Martha’s Garden” premières today at the Wrocław Opera at the festival Musica Electronica Nova and will enter the repertoire on our stage.

We are getting ready to talk and take photos. Elżbieta Chojnacka is sitting at an open harpsichord, and suddenly notices how silly she feels posing for a picture without a score. She bends down and lifts one of the pink cardboard sheets off the floor. Each one has a carefully attached score of individual compositions.

Another virtuoso recital after the concert by Elżbieta Chojnacka within the festival Musica Electronica Nova was held at the Ossolineum Auditorium.

I am a product of the 20th century. I smoke, drive a car and travel by plane. I can’t live as in baroque times – says Elżbieta Chojnacka, world famous Polish harpsichordist.

Tom Mays, American musician who has been composing for many years in France, talks about Karlax, the instrument he will present during the weekend at Musica Electronica Nova.

The audience needs to understand that the devil is not as black as he is painted. The first contact with contemporary music could have been too painful for some people. However, today that kind of music has such a long history that it should have been assimilated a long time ago – explained Elżbieta Sikora, the new director of the Musica Electronica Nova festival. The festival with the programme she created starts on Friday, May 13th and ill end on May 21st.

We wear jeans, we use the latest mobile phones or laptops and so we should be interested in the latest achievements in painting, theatre or music – says Agata Zubel, a singer and composer from Wrocław.

Pierre Jodlowski was born in Toulouse (France) in 1971. After studying composition at the Conservatoire of Lyon and IRCAM, Pierre Jodlowski founded the collective éOle and festival Novelum in Toulouse. His work as a composer led him to perform in France and abroad in many places connected with contemporary music.

We would like to invite you to participate in the Ringtone Festival – an event accompanying the IV edition of the Musica Electronica Nova festival.

Tickets are avalible to buy at Filharmonia Wrocławska, ul. Piłsudskiego 19, mon-fri 11:00–18:00 (break 15:00–15:30) tel. (+48) 71 342-24-59 tel. (+48) 71 792-10-00 ( 8:00–16:00).

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Elżbieta Sikora, artistic director of the Musica Electronica Nova 2011 festival, takes us through the complexities of this year’s edition. She explains the difference between Acousmonium concerts, tells us how to play music with the use of a car and about Karlax. The composer also reveals her plans to stay in Wrocław for longer.

She learned from the best to later contribute to the world of electronic music. She was shaped by the lectures of Pierre Schaeffer and by the Warsaw Autumn festival. Elżbieta Sikora, artistic director of the Musica Electronica Nova festival, tells how she got into the Groupe de Recherches Musicale, and how she later witnessed the rivalry of GRM with IRCAM.

Eivind Aarset is a guitarist with a unique musical vision that absorbs and reflects all manner of music while retaining an enviable individualism and high quality craftsmanship that can span from quiet intimacy to searing intensity. His debut as a bandleader on Jazzland Recordings was described by the New York Times as “One of the best post-Miles electric jazz albums,” setting a high benchmark that Aarset has consistently met and exceeded, both in the studio and in live performance.