Blaž Švagan Quartet – Villa For Forest

Datum: Fr, 27.01.2023 um 19:30
Veranstalter: Verein Innenhofkultur
Ort: Villa For Forest, Viktringer Ring 21, Klagenfurt

Blaž Švagan - saxophone
Nazareno Caputo - vibraphone
Miha Koren - doublebass
Matheus Jardim - drums
Eintritt: € 19 | € 9 StudentInnen, SchülerInnen und unter 18

My name is Blaž Švagan and I am a saxophonist/composer/producer from Slovenia.

In spring 2023, I am releasing the album Sound in Time, which will be released by Berlin’s Aut Records.

The album features a great italian vibraphonist Nazareno Caputo, who has been voted for best debut album by New York Jazz Times in 2021.

The album also features the brazilian drummer Matheus Jardim, who is a rising star on the central european jazz scene and slovenian musicians: Miha Koren on double bass and on two tracks also Boris Majcen on trumpet.

Sound in Time is a transcultural project, it is full of fresh and modern musical concepts, taking the New York jazz scene into account and also incoroprating some of the Balkan melodic/rhythmic structures.

Quotes:
„Blaž is a strong composer and player. His interesting fresh ideas are pushing the music forward.“ – Joris Teepe„As players – and inherently fans of the music – we are always interested in searching for unique voices out there. Blaž Švagan is that refreshing identity that emerges once in a blue moon. After listening to Blaž’s record, Sound In Time, I was excited to hear his specific and unique articulation, and the fire, fierceness and energy in his sound. The songs on this record are passionate and tell a complete story from front to back. Gatekeepers: pay attention to Blaž.“ – Noah Preminger

Other youtube links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6lHTj5prs0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us9xNzWDWDw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrbN8k9cQC4

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am Mi, 25.06.2025 um 20:00

Noise, Silence, Action | Villa For Forest

Villa For Forest, Viktringer Ring 21, 9020 Klagenfurt In this event, the GMPU Experimental Music Workshop will perform works by Pullitzer Prize recipient, Diné musician and artist Raven Chacon; experimental music mavericks Christian Wolff and James Tenney; and founding member of the Fluxus Movement Alison Knowles. Each work explores alternative forms of musical notation including graphical scores and text-based event scores that result in sounds and actions that challenge the very definition of music and prompt innovative and unconventional performance practices. These works also encourage a new form of listening and engaging with music by probing extremal and liminal musical spaces: from the almost imperceptibly soft and sparse to the loud and dense. In some cases, the music even reaches "beyond sound" through the consideration of colonial histories and the navigation of social systems and their corresponding power dynamics.

Free admission