The Copernicus Science Centre hosts an evening of genre-defying musical projects and experiments on the site of the defunct Powiśle Power Plant, featuring independent artists from all over the world - Fred Frith, Mouse on Mars, The Ex
The evening starts off at the Copernicus Science Centre with the improvised music of Fred Frith, who opens the concert with a solo performance, followed by a performance with a group of Polish musicians.
The main stage will be located in one of the halls of the renovated Powiśle Power Plant. The concert will start with two Polish bands: Paris Tetris joined by Moloko and Roisin Murphy producer Eddie Stevens and Ścianka with some guests as well.
The evening comes to a close with a performance by The EX, one of the most important underground bands in Europe, accompanied this time by an unlikely crew: the outstanding saxophone and clarinet player Ken Vandermark (USA), New York turntablist and experimentalist Dj Rupture, and a trio of Ethiopian troubadours, the Ililta Band.
The world of experimental dance music will be represented by the German duet Mouse on Mars, a timeless inspiration for scores of musicians, producers and composers, and by Pantha du Prince - a Berlin-based producer and composer, the author of one of the best electronic records of 2010 and an undoubted hero of last year’s European alternative music festivals. The concert will mark Pantha du Prince’s first performance in Warsaw.
The main stage performances feature audio and visual projects in the alleyways and side spaces of the Powiśle industrial complex. Robert Piotrowicz, a musician, publisher, and founder of the Musica Genera Festival, will play a series of conceptual sets in the old control room. Discord Records artists from the city of Wrocław will prepare audio and visual installations, including video mapping projected onto the architecture of the old power plant. Konrad Smoleński (associated with the Pink Punk movement) and the group Fluidacje are also slated to perform at the event.
The outside stage, located in the catering and recreation zone, hosts DJs associated with the Soul Service collective and the ongoing Warsoul Sessions project.
Curator: Michał Borkiewicz
Executive producer: Plan B Association
Stage partner: Menolly Poland, Copernicus Science Centre
Source: National Audiovisual Institute