Description
The agitated calm of insubstantial space” is a joint audiovisual collaboration between Sándor Vály and Attila Kalóczkai. Vály and Kalóczkai co-wrote music in the Hungarian underground and industrial areas of the 1980s, where the music was built around Kalóczkai’s ritual poetry and tried to build a bridge to the co-arts. (Dance, Performance, Visual arts) Since Vály left the country in 1990, they have not worked together for 32 years. In 2020 they met again in Umbria and planned to create a new material together. Two people, two times, two spaces, two different states, two different existences, have created this musical work, which is the physical and spiritual sum of the last thirty-two years. “The agitated calm of insubstantial space” is not retrospective material, but reacts to the present with the perspectives and aspects created by the lived spaces and times in the lives of two people, and goes beyond the musical and visual languages to articulate the contemporary pathological situation of the soul. “The agitated calm of insubstantial space” is an organic experimental work in which elements of contemporary classical music are juxtaposed with industrial, noise music.
