We invite you to see Pauline Olivero’s installation “Dear.John: A Canon on the Name of Cage” at the Czartoryski Palace by the Litewski Square where the CAGE100 Symposium is being held.

We would like to invite you for a unique inauguration of the festival on the 12th of May – a concert of a piece composed by manuel m. hervás lino from Spain for 15 Lublin bells. It will start at 7:45pm and will be broadcasted from the church towers and screened at the “Po Farze” Square. Just after 8:00pm Marcin Masecki’s “Polonaise” will start at the same place. He will perform together with an orchestra consisting of excellent Polish musicians such as Michał Górczyński, Wacław Zimpel, Tomasz Duda and other. For the end of the festival we’ve prepared a bluegrass dance night performed by The Coal Porters from London.

Workshop with Soundpainter Walter Thompson for the “Lublin Soundpainting Orchestra”

14–16 May, 2pm-6pm
Musical Theatre, 5 Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej Street, Lublin

During the Soundpainting workshop, each participant will learn the basic 44 gestures as a performer and also as a Soundpainter – a composer in real time. They will learn what each gesture means, how to play it and how to sign it. After completing the first 44 gestures participants will continue learning and expanding their vocabulary and begin exploring live composition concepts with the Soundpainting language.

At the conclusion of the Soundpainting workshop each participant will be familiar with approximately 75 Soundpainting gestures both as a performer and as a Soundpainter.

The Soundpainting gestures are multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary. Musicians, Dancers, Actors, and Visual Artists all equally work together in the same group. During the workshop the participants will discover how the Soundpainting language works their discipline as well as with the other disciplines.

Note: Though the Soundpainting language incorporates improvisation, a previous knowledge of improvisation is not required – anyone, no matter what level or ability, can participate in a Soundpainting group.

If you are interested in attending the workshop, please write an email to the following address:
warsztaty@kody-festiwal.pl

Please include details:
- name and surname
- mobile number and email address
- age
- musical experience

ATTENTION: We accept applications only of those who are willing to participate full-time in the workshop. The workshop is free of charge and number of participants is limited.

Vocal workshop with Pauline Oliveros based on the Deep Listening method

15 May (Tuesday), 6pm – introduction
16–17 May (Wednesday, Thursday), 3pm-6pm
Crossroads Centre, 39 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street, Lublin

Deep Listening is experiencing heightened or expanded awareness of sound, silence and sounding.

We will explore core concepts of improvisation in a meditative atmosphere vocalists of all abilities may participate in the Deep Listening exercises during the intensive.  All styles and abilities will be welcomed in an open exploratory circle.

Some of the benefits of Deep Listening practice include expanded awareness of time and space, relaxation that supports musical activity, an expanding sense of humor, dissolution of old limits and opening to new patterns.  There will be opportunities to work in pairs, trios and in larger groups, drawing on Deep Listening practices explored in the open circle exercises.

The goal of the workhsop will be to improvise from the meditative listening in solo, small ensemble and large group ensemble configurations with a creative musical finale of presentations.

If you are interested in attending the workshop, please write an email to the following address:
warsztaty@kody-festiwal.pl

Please include details:
- name and surname
- mobile number and email address
- age
- musical experience

ATTENTION: We accept applications only of those who are willing to participate full-time in the workshop. The workshop is free of charge and number of participants is limited.

We invite you to join the organizing team of the IV edition of Codes Festival.

More information and the application for voluntary work is available here. If you are interested, please fill out the application and send it to: wolontariat@kody-festiwal.pl

March 29th (Thursday), 11am
Promotional Centre of Lublin Region
41 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street, Lublin

We would like to invite you to a press conference devoted to the IV Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde Music “Codes”. We will announce the programme of this year’s edition of “Codes” festival and the biographies of selected artists who will perform this year. We will be more than happy to answer all questions regarding the festival.

Soon we will announce the festival’s programme for 2012! In the meantime get ready for a musical feast at 12 – 19 May 2012.

We invite you to see photo’s from this years’ edition of CODES Festival: concerts, meetings with artists and Phil Minton’s workshop.

There is also a film footage produced by TVP Lublin.

Today is the last day of the festival. You can still see:

2pm meeting with Susie Ibarra, Ikue Mori and Sylvie Courvoisier at Hades Szeroka
7pm concerts at the Lublin Philharmonic – Xabier Erkizia from Spain, Phil Minton’s Feral Choir and the great trio Mephista
9.30pm Festival Cinema – „John Cage. From Zero.”
10pm Festival Club – violin fight with Frank Fairfield, Witold Broda and  Ewa Grochowska

Don’t miss it!

Unfortunately DJ Yoda will not perform today with Evelyn Glennie. Due to health issues the artist had to cancel his arrival to Poland for CODES Festival. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Before we start our festival we invite you to see the exhibition of Wojtek Kornet’s photographs. The musicians of previous editions of CODES present themselves as good on photographs as on stage. Come and see Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, Philip Glass, Cem Mansur, Wendy Sutter and Mick Rossi.

Centrum Promocji Województwa Lubelskiego (Promotional Centre of Lublin Region)
Lublin, 41 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street

Monday – Friday 9:00-17:00

We have the spot of this year’s CODES Festival! Author: Rafał Kucharczuk, Music: Pupile Awangardy

See the spot here

From April 27th 2011 you can buy tickets for CODES Festival. Just chceck the ticket prices and details about sales here: TICKETS.

We invite you to participate in a voice workshop with Phil Minton, a great specialist in experimental singing. The workshop is a part of “The Feral Choir” project – a concert which will be the result of four-day vocal work and are addressed not only to singers but to anyone who takes a delight in the freedom to experiment.

The workshop will take place 17th – 20th of May 2011, between 2:00-6:00pm in Crossroads Centre at 39 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street in Lublin.

Please send applications with your contact number till the 11th of May 2011 to our email address: info@kody-festiwal.pl

There is a limit of participants.

Vote for CODES! Between the 1st and 9th of February 2011 you can vote in Gazeta Wyborcza’s contest for the best Cultural Event of 2010.

From January 17th 2011 Gazeta Wyborcza is publishing coupons for voting in the contest. Fill out the coupon and send it to GW’s post address or bring it in to their office (ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 21, 20-002 Lublin, Poland). They’re waiting for your votes till the 9th of February. Voting online will begin on February the 1st.

More info here

CODES Fesival did not obtain the title of The Best Tourist Product of Lublin Region ‘2010. Nevertheless the jury decided to award us additionally. Thank you very much!

CODES Festival is participating in the Competition for The Best Tourist Product of Lublin Region ‘2010. We invite you to vote for us. The competition finishes on the 12th of August 2010.

http://konkurs.lrot.pl/

See the photo documentation of CODES Festival 2010. Click here - gallery.

We encourage you to read an interview with Jan Bernad and Jerzy Kornowicz given to Roman Pawłowski from Gazeta Wyborcza.

Ladies and gentleman,

Yesterday evening we received official information that Lou Reed will not perform on May 15th
in Lublin. At the concert in the courtyard of Lublin Castle Laurie Anderson and John Zorn will perform with the outstanding bassist, Bill Laswell.

At the same time we would like to apologize all fans of Lou Reed.  We would also like to inform that the change is due to reasons beyond us, the organizers of the Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde Music CODES.

NOTICE!!!

We provide a return of costs for tickets all who want to cancel their tickets. Nevertheless we still invite you to participate in CODES.

All who paid by transfer and want to cancel their ticket for the concert on the 15ht of May at the Lublin Castle need to send us an email with the following details:

Email to: info@kody-festiwal.pl
TITLE: return of tickets

1.    Name and surname of ticket holder
2.    Reservation number
3.    Reason of cancelling
4.    Bank account number

All who have purchased tickets at the box office of the Lublin Philharmonic, may request a ticket return only with the receipt of payment.

Organizers

The Jazz Forum portal published Michał Polański’s article about CODES Festival. Read the article here.

CODES Festival goes out to the students with a unique proposal – a chance to meet famous musicians and composers. The meetings of students with Laurie Anderson, John Zorn and Philip Glass will be held in the large auditorium of the Faculty of Humanities MCSU. The artists will talk about their work and are willing to answer questions from their fans. The moderators of the meetings are lecturers of MCSU’s Institute of English, Andrzej Antoszek and Paweł Frelik.

15 of May
11:00am Laurie Anderson
2:00pm John Zorn

19 of May
11:00am Philip Glass

Audio-visual performance “Past and Future” will take place at the Workshops of Culture (5 Popiełuszki Street) and not at H.Ch.Andersen Theatre as we informed before.

Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde Music  “Codes” won first place in the plebiscite of The Most Important Cultural Event in 2009 in Lublin! The organizer of the plebiscite was Gazeta Wyborcza. More information here

Contact

Address:
Centre for Intercultural Creative Initiatives "Crossroads"
Krakowskie Przedmieście 39
20-076 Lublin

Tel: +48 (81) 466 59 89

Email: info@kody-festiwal.pl