JATA KAUK (SI)
What do birds know about the formation of flocks, so mighty in all their airiness, yet without visible outlines of shapes that are evident to the human eye from the ground? Each bird intuitively takes its place in the flock during flight, in relation to its fellow birds. The same is done by its companions, so the flock moves almost like a single organism. The latter is constantly stirred by the wind at its core, while the birds within it, in a free interplay, sometimes take on a more intimate pose in the evening sun, and at other times the wind's current carries them with all its intensity into sharper and darker outlines of matter in the sky. We, however, are different birds. Since we cannot fly, we form sound, and our formations are sonic formations, they are loud, they resonate. JATA KAUK is a musical ensemble of four representatives from the younger generation of improvised music. Their mutual connections and friendship go back to the previous decade, and in this lineup, they started performing in 2024. All four were previously students of jazz music, and their musical expression breathes well in modern and free improvisational forms, deconstructing and scattering existing and original compositions. In a somewhat non-standard lineup of instruments, the members of Kauke are Nina Virant on vocals, Mojca Zupančič on keyboards and synthesizers, Mišel Kosi on the transverse flute, and Janez Sagadin on percussion. Birds fly in flocks. Each bird intuitively takes its place in the flock during flight, in relation to its fellow birds. The same is done by its companions, so the flock moves almost like a single organism. The latter is constantly stirred by the wind at its core, while the birds within it, in a free interplay, sometimes take on a more intimate pose in the evening sun, and at other times the wind's current carries them with all its intensity into sharper and darker outlines of matter in the sky. We, however, are different birds. Since we cannot fly, we form sound, and our formations are sonic formations, they are loud, they resonate. JATA KAUK is a musical ensemble of four representatives from the younger generation of improvised music. Their mutual connections and friendship go back to the previous decade, and in this lineup, they started performing in 2024. All four were previously students of jazz music, and their musical expression breathes well in modern and free improvisational forms, deconstructing and scattering existing and original compositions. In a somewhat non-standard lineup of instruments, the members of Kauke are Nina Virant on vocals, Mojca Zupančič on keyboards and synthesizers, Mišel Kosi on the transverse flute, and Janez Sagadin on percussion. Birds fly in flocks.
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Kaj vedo ptice o oblikovanju jate – tako mogočnem v vsej svoji zračnosti, a brez vidnih obrisov, ki jih človeško oko zlahka zazna s tal? Vsaka ptica intuitivno zavzame svoj položaj v jati glede na druge ptice v letu. Enako storijo tudi njene sopotnice, zato se jata premika skoraj kot enoten organizem. Ta je v svojem jedru nenehno razgiban z vetrom, medtem ko ptice v njem v svobodni igri včasih zavzamejo bolj intimno pozo v večernem soncu, spet drugič pa jih vetrovni tok odnese v ostrejše in temnejše obrise snovi na nebu. Jata Kauk je glasbena zasedba štirih predstavnikov mlajše generacije improvizirane glasbe. Njihove medsebojne vezi in prijateljstvo segajo v prejšnje desetletje, v tej zasedbi pa nastopajo od leta 2024. Ker ne znajo leteti, oblikujejo zvok – in njihove formacije so zvočne formacije: glasne, zveneče, resonantne.