BIO
Ákos Nagy
His art is synthetic and shows synthesizing tendency which is built from the Netherlandish polyphone tradition. He examined Gothic and late Renaissance music, traces of which show up in his later music along with elements of Transsylvanian and Indian and Khmer and Balinese and Japenese classical culture. He is researching the rhythm and tone systems outside Europe. He turns towards exploring new forms and structures filling them up with his characteristic take on melody which origins usually from non-tempered (just intonation) systems.
His music juxtaposes solid blocks of sound that keep reprising accumulatively – a method he branded "layering technique".
He has been experimenting with psychoacoustic "tricks" for example morfing tremolos with different tempos and phenomenon of binaural beats and low frequencies impulses (ELF-WLF) and sounds of pulsars and magnetars and other radio signals from space and different spectral distortions and paradox of tritone and octave and glissando-like effects and scale illusions and Doppler-effect.
Apart from acoustic instruments he is interested in electronic instruments and electro-acoustic music and sound synthesis percussions and instruments which differs from European ones for example shakuhachi and hichiriki and sho and bansuri and serpent and hurdy-gurdy and viola da gamba etc. He is preparating piano and dulcimer and viola and flute with clarinet piccolo jet which has to be put into the head of the flute.
His music is influenced by the I-II World War Avant-garde the American experimental and the early psychedelic music and many European and outside Europe folk music and former arts.
In his pieces he shows a penchent for mathematical series textures arranged after priciples of variation which are substantiated with polyrhythmic and polytempoed and polymetric patterns of melody and rhythm.
Since the years 2000 he regularly publishes articles and recensions and other musically themed publications in various music weeklies and magazines. In 2009 he brings to life - along with four partners – a workshop for the propagation of contemporary music by the name SZIMNIA (Szimmetrikus Zenei és Írásos Műveket Népszerűsítő és Ismertető Alapítvány - Foundation for Introducing and Popularising Symmetrical Works of Music and Literature), where he also carries the role of art director and program organizer.
Since May 2009. he is the editor of contemporary music program Karnevál on Civil Radio.
Since Autumn of 2013 he performs noted and improvisational electro-acoustic music with Szabolcs Kerestes and Bálint Baráth named Tri(o)KeBaNa. His music is usually performed together with the Hungarian Sound Painting Orchestra.
In 2015 he associates with Zsuzsanna Aba-Nagy and Robert Mandel in GENEAMUS Ensemble Historical and Contemporary Music Group.
Many of his pieces have been performed in Hungary-wide for example on café Budapest in CET, in Műcsarnok (Kunsthalle Budapest), Fészek Art Club, Budapest Music Center, International Bartók Seminar and Festival Szombathely, Aurora Modularis, Újszínház (New Theartre ) Budapest, Budapest Spring Festival, MÜPA (Glass room), Fringe Festival, Thalia Theatre, Nádor Concert Hall, Műveszetek Völgye Fesztival (Valley of Arts Festival), Művészetek és Irodalom Háza Pécs, ICA-d Dunaújváros, etc. They have been also performed abroad for example in Germany, BKA Theater Berlin, in Italy, Greece, France, Sweden and USA.
Levente Hajdu
PROJECTS
Solo Exhibitions/Projects
Captured Flags – FKSE Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Budapest (Hungary), 2021 Billboard – 1x1, Arc pályázat, Budapest (Hungary), 2021
Rustplate – Ördögkatlan Festival, Beremend (Hungary), 2021
Lassíts (billboard) – 1x1, FKSE–MKKP, Budapest (Hungary), 2020
Finissage – Solo show, Budapest (Hungary), 2019 Re-painted – Valyó Kikötő, Budapest (Hungary), 2018 Billboard – 1x1, Arc pályázat, Budapest (Hungary), 2017 Room-exhibition – Budapest (Hungary), 2014
Group Exhibitions
Copy-Paste – Turbina, Budapest (Hungary), 2021
I. Lucifer Videomapping Workshop and Exhibition – FKSE Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Budapest (Hungary), 2021
Closed Doors – 1111 Galéria, Budapest (Hungary), 2020
20th Century Hungarian Left-Wing Portrait Gallery – Gólya Presszó, Budapest (Hungary), 2018
Nomad Project – Terrassa (Spain), 2018
Kontroll – Kunsthalle, Budapest (Hungary), 2016
Robot Exhibition – Labor Galéria, Budapest (Hungary), 2016
Memberships/other activities
Board member of FKSE Studio of Young Artists’ Association
Founding member and set designer of Kelet-Nyugati Alkotóműhely (East-West Creative Workshop Theatre) Host of the Himi-Humi Radio at Lahmacun Radio