433 ps – for four motorcycles

Performed by:
Szabolcs Czakó – Yamaha R6 (129 HP)
Ádám Siska– Yamaha R6 (129 HP)
Tamás Strém – Yamaha R1 (182 HP)
Zoltán Pintér – Yamaha R1 (182 HP)

Motorconcert is a 10 minutes piece for four Yamaha motorcycles, where the instruments are the most beautifully sounding engines of the music history. The dream of futurists will come true!

Performed by:
MERZBOW (Masami Akita) – laptop
Balázs Pándi – drums

“If music was sex, Merzbow would be pornography.” (Masami Akita)

Merzbow is the recording name of the most well known Japanese noise artist. Inspired by Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism, and on the other hand, by the Japanese strain of Japanese sado-mazochism, Merzbow has been continually fascinated by noise as both sonic detritus and vehicle for spiritual ecstasy.
At the Making New Waves festival Mezbow will play together with a genre-crossing, young Hungarian acoustic drum player, Balázs Pándi.

The European Bridges Ensemble was established for Internet and network performance. Its current members are Kai Niggemann (Münster, Germany), Ádám Siská (Budapest, Hungary), Johannes Kretz (Vienna, Austria), Andrea Szigetvári (Budapest, Hungary), Ivana Ognjanovic (Belgrade, Serbia), Georg Hajdu (Hamburg, Germany), and Stewart Collinson (Lincoln, England), performing with Georg Hajdu’s interactive network performance environment Quintet.net.
In 2009 July the ensemble worked at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg together with four young composers to create new network pieces. The result will be presented at MNW2009.

Kathleen Supové – piano, electronics

Program:
- Jacob Ter Veldhuis (Jacob TV): The Body of Your Dreams (rev. 2004)
- Nick Didkovsky: Zero Waste (2002)
- Anna Clyne: On Track (2007) [video by Joshue Ott]
- Jason Freeman: Piano Etudes (2008)
Observing Squirrels, Learning to Dance, Reading a Poem, Trying to be Hip5
- Neil Rolnick: Digits (2005) [video by R. Luke Dubois]

Dubbed “the downtown piano queen” (The New Yorker), Kathleen Supové is known to audiences in New York and around the country for her virtuosic and compelling interpretations of new music, her theatrical flamboyance, and her constant experimentation in the presentation of concerts. In her concert at MNW she will challenge both herself and the audience by creating pieces in which the composer allows parts of the composition to be decided by the computer and/or the audience.

Frank Gratkowski – saxophone
David Wessel – live electronics (from California on the Internet)

United by the shared innovatory impulses of the fields of contemporary jazz, separated by the 10000 km, between Budapest and Berkeley (California) , the “analogue” sax player, Frank Gratkowski and David Wessel, a pioneer in the use of virtuoso external controllers for computer music, perform and improvise together through the ether.

Performed by:
Narrator/Seltopuzik/Snake: Herczku Ágnes – singing
Eve: Éva Bodrogi – singing
Adam: József Gyabronka – actor

Péter Földes – flute, piccolo, alto flute
Zsolt Bartek – clarinet, saxophone
Eszter Krulik – violin, viola
Judit Gallai – violoncelo
Kata Koltai – sithar, el. bass

Soharóza Choir
Dóra Halas – chorus-master
Georgi Sztojanov – conducting

Rózsa Sebő – costumes, setting
Pál Nényei – text
Ferenc Tarr – director

The piece creates a new context for an old story placing Adam and Eve in the age of the Internet , Skype, chat and webcam. The new context and the modern technology opens the way to mix different genres, sytles and spaces: there is a mix of the opera and theater and video, classical music and folkmusic, burlesque and pantomime, seriousness and humour.

Music:
Johannes Kretz, Ádám Siska, Andrea Szigetvári

Performed by:
Andrea Ladányi – laserharp
Gábor Vida – laserharp
Andrea Szigetvári – live electronics
Johannes Kretz – live electronics
Ádám Siska – programming
Attila Kalcsú, János Wieser – lasertechnics

Two dancers, two rooms connected with a network, four laserharps. The movements and the sounds created by the dancers will be visualized in form of movements of the laserbeams. The dancers situated in two different rooms will dance with each other’s laseravatars.