Music of the Place

The foundation of the program is meeting and working with acknowledged musicians in order to create modern sejny music. The basic rule of cooperation is equal input from Masters, as well as from Students, in creating team unison of the Music of the Place sound. Musicians who were invited into the cooperation base their work on improvisation and experimenting on the texture of sound and it's type properties. Paul Brody from Berlin - one of the most interesting musicians from the John Zorn Tzadik Label; Patryk Zakrocki - founder of the Warsaw Improvisation Stage, multiinstrumentalist, and composer, DJ Lenar - improvisational turntablist, scratching and "deckonstructing" Lutosławski and Szymanowski, collaborating with Cezary Duchnowski; Alan Bren - composer, pianist and accordion player, since 70's cofounding Rebirth of Klezmer Music movement; the band Bauagan Mistrzów - one of the leading and most interesting band's in Warsaw, creating, as they call it, the "middlestyle"; Pete Paulau - the leader of important anti-regime rock bands, his music is described as authentic folk compiling archaic singing traditions and modern sound.

Decisive factor of the musical shape of the project was merging styles represented by each band member. Music of the Place is the polyphonic sound based on the modern aesthetics and sensitivity of Sejny young artists. The Sound reflects multicultural neighborhood of Poles, Lithuanians, Russians, and also those inhabitants who left barely visible traces – Jews and Germans.

The sign of modernity will be pinpointing the Own Place – district, house, yard, street in the shadow of popular in Sejny, dream of leaving the city in search of better life.

Arraigning work is focused on re-discovering old music and lyrics of songs from the past. The act of passing time is highlighted in the music by introducing cracks and rustles from old recordings, which are also used to build melodic and rhythmic structures. In the lyrics - the meaning of old song is taken from wooden houses, the smell of fibre flax fabric and small paths to blocks of flats, tarmac, sport shoes and easily googled answers to difficult questions.
Music of the place in its sound attempts to balance those two worlds – it is merging of samples, live instruments, and digital efects. .
November concert in Sejny White Synagogue was the outcome of the work done during those past few months. On that occasion New Sejny Music, as Masters and Students have called it, was played for the first time.

Day-to day work is conducted in music wokshop of Borderland Centre in Sejny.