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!

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.

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.

Adam Siska was born in Budapest on 18th December, 1983. He studies composition in the class of Zoltán Jeney at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest since 2002. As an attendee of several Hungarian and international seminars (like Ostrava Days 2007, the International Béla Bartók Seminar in 2005 & 2006, the Making New Waves Festival between 2005 & 2007 etc.) he has been taught (among many others) by musicians like Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier, Péter Eötvös, Johannes Schöllhorn, Jasch (Jan Schacher) and Andrea Szigetvári. His piece Praeludium et fuga in a was awarded second prize at the competition of the Hungarian Clavicembalo Foundation in 2005, and his work Concerto won the audience’s award at the Third Contemporary Music Festival of Young Composers in 2006. In 2007 he became permanent member of the European Bridges Ensemble (founded and leaded by Georg Hajdu) and participated in several performances in many European countries.