kakofoNIKT and the WSJO Canto-Cantare Choir

The kakofoNIKT band for over twelve years, has been operating at the interface of such tactics as free improvisation, noise, industrial, field recording, the so-called concrete or electronic music audiovisual and performative installations and activities. An extremely wide range of instruments includes on an equal footing garbage especially scrap - metal, toys, everyday objects, traditional instruments and complex electronic systems. The band is not afraid of experiments, performancesin the strangest forms and spaces, trips to the avant-garde and tradition: theater music, rap, electronic orchestra, improvised opera, radical performance, psychedelic rock or many hours of meditation sessions on the verge of dreaming - maintaining in these meanders a unique, internal thread of understanding and style developed over the years.

This time, thanks to the intervention of the Sonus ex Machina festival, in November 2018 kakofoNIKT met the WSJO Canto-Cantare Choir of several dozen people, operating since 1996, and since 2016 under the direction of the searching and extremely lively Joanna Sykulska (formerly the conductor of the Witch Choir) - to work together on a new electrifying project combining Slavic mythology, folk ritual, medieval and Renaissance choral traditions, botanical, historical and psychonautical insights into the sphere of native flora and psychoactive microflora as well as sonoristic, experimental but also folk musical techniques. The musical skeleton was based on the harmonic foundations of composers such as Guillaume de Machaut, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina or Wacław of Szamotuły, newly developed and translated into electronic music.