A concert full of nonsense

The CentriFUGA Contemporary Music Workshop will hold a concert titled Halandzsa (Gibberish) on May 18th at the FUGA Budapest Architectural Center.

"What is gibberish text good for?" – raises the question composer Gyula Csapó, whose work will also be performed during the evening. The pieces of the concert explore the relationship between language and music, the compositional possibilities of the musicality inherent in language, and the sonic universes of language. "Gibberish is one of the most serious human expressions. I find it particularly important to emphasize this here and now, because contemporary Hungarian composition is strongly inclined towards an excessive respect for text, even fetishizing it." According to Csapó, gibberish can balance the relationship between text and music.

The composers associated with the CentriFUGA Contemporary Music Workshop have a strong sensitivity to using language in ways freed from its analytical, conventional meanings and uses. The use of linguistic elements or the sounds of language as a musical material often appears in FUGA contemporary music concerts, indicating that even among the younger generation of composers, there is an openness to the perspectives Csapó welcomes.

Csapó’s introduction also signals that the concert will feature humor. "A pig grunting is not an art (Kunst)" – the composer remarks. "But if a person grunts, barks, howls, or indeed speaks gibberish – well, that is definitely Kunst!"

Most of the works on the concert will be world premieres.

Gibberish (CentriFUGA Production)
FUGA Budapest Architectural Center, May 18, 2025, Sunday, 6:00 PM

• Márton Szőcs: Lan ratland kava

• Csenge Mihalicza: Gibberish

• Balázs Horváth: Las Vegas

• Jean Étienne Degauche: L’apothéose de Fauvel

• Bálint Horváth: Déva vára

• Gyula Csapó: Praeludio e Végfuga Perpetua

• Csanád Kedves: Frozen Reality

• László Sándor: Sounds at Sunset

• Márton Bujdosó: Dream Film Score (world premiere)
  

Performers: Eszter Gyüdi, Judit Szathmáry (vocals), András Szalai (cimbalom), Panna Szöllősy Vágó (harp), Csaba Klenyán (clarinet), Tamás Zétényi (cello), Márton Bujdosó (narration), Krisztián Andor (piano), Dóra Pétery (harpsichord), Péter Tornyai and László Sándor (violin). Conducted by Csanád Kedves and Péter Tornyai.

Further details on the FUGA website and Facebook.

Source: Jelenkor