What is MUT NAQ FO MUS (IC)?

Lecture by Ahad aka Zsolt Sőrés

In this lecture we will discuss the aesthetics and practice of experimental electroacoustic music interpreted through new materialist sound ontology and the so-called sonic turn. A special focus will be given to the prominent role of new built electronic instruments as well. We will show how, for example, the PolyViola, presented at the 2024 Venice Music Biennale, opens up new horizons for musical and sound art practice. And finally, we will try to answer the question: What is MUT NAQ FO MUS (IC) really?

Zsolt Sőrés (aka Ahad, 1969, Budapest) is a Berlin-based Hungarian composer, improviser (viola, voice, electronics), sound and intermedia artist who has been active since the early 1990s. Sőrés has been teaching at the Electronic Music Media Art Department at Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest since 2014. Among others he organized experimental music festivals and sound art series between 1995 – 2011 in Budapest (Pause-Sign Festival; Relative /Cross/Hearings). In 2014 Sőrés also curated the first international sound installation art exhibition in Hungary at Kunsthalle Budapest (Sound Art – On the Edge of Perceptibility). Sőrés takes part in festivals and concert series in Europe, Canada and the US. Regularly, and in an international context, she performs with other musicians and he often collaborates with artists from other artistic fields and disciplines. Sőrés runs his own label Hinge Thunder since 2020. He won the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD fellowship in 2021.