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20th - 29th October 2017 | Maribor, Slovenia

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Drago Ivanuša

The Raising of the Voice

Muskafiber

Schedule

21.10.2017, Saturday / 22:00 / Tribune on the Grand Stage /

Première 4 December 2017, Slovenian National Theatre Drama Ljubljana, concert cycle Akustika
Running time 1 hour and 10 minutes. No interval.

Author Drago Ivanuša
Author of text Anja Novak
Lighting designer Andrej Hajdinjak
Sound designer Jurij Alič

Cast
Drago Ivanuša, piano
Anja Novak, voice
Lola Mlačnik, marimba, percussion
Tomaž Grom, double-bass

The Raising of the Voice is a concert project by the Slovenian composer and pianist Drago Ivanuša, who took his own voice as the starting point. The Slovenian philosopher Mladen Dolar in his book A Voice and Nothing More says: "In isolation, in solitude, in complete loneliness, away from the madding crowd, we are not simply free of the voice – it can be that this is when another kind of voice appears, more intrusive and compelling than the usual mumbo-jumbo: the internal voice, a voice which cannot be silenced. As if the voice were the very epitome of a society that we carry with us and cannot get away from. We are social beings by the voice and through the voice, it seems that the voice stands at the axis of our social bonds, and that voices are the very texture of the social, as well as the intimate kernel of subjectivity."

Do we still hear the inner voice? Has the noise in today’s world finally defeated silence? What does our inner voice say? Are our decisions, our views, our understanding of the world and our purity dependent on whether we truly hear ourselves and are we as a result more authentic and good? In Drago Ivanuša’s music, alongside the excellent musicians witnessed by the audience, we approach this mysterious moment – when we hear our inner voice.

The Raising of the Voice <em>Photo: Matjaž Vrečko</em>
Photo: Matjaž Vrečko
The Raising of the Voice <em>Photo: Matej Povše</em>
Photo: Matej Povše
The Raising of the Voice <em>Photo: Matej Povše</em>
Photo: Matej Povše
The Raising of the Voice <em>Photo: Matej Povše</em>
Photo: Matej Povše

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