Zsolt Sőrés (Ahad)
Zsolt Sőrés’s drone music characterised by formation strategy and immediate transitions; the use of
unstable acoustic systems and continuous sound layers, which can develop towards a sound economy,
very similar to minimalism’s compositional solutions such as micro-structural and sound reduction space
arrangement. His music is characterised by the dramaturgy of the situation of intensive concentration
and reaction times (slower and quicker processes) because of a sense of suspension, where
sounds/noises are looped for a longer or shorter time, recycled and changed only slightly. Comprising an
improvised method of editing, it confronts the listener with an evolving sense of time and duration that
transcend questions of musical to focus in the idea of shape, in the potentialities of a sound
representation as stream of consciousness.
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Zsolt Sőrés (Ahad)
Improvised, electroacoustic and noise musician, sound artist, editor and curator. Groups: duo with
Jean-Hervé Péron Art-Errorist (from the krautrock band Faust), Ahad & ChrS (with Christian Skjødt),
collaborations with Franz Hautzinger and Isabelle Duthoit, I Belong to the Band (with Adam Bohman, Oli
Mayne and Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg), trio with Richard Barrett and Milana Zarić, duo with Christian
Kobi etc. He is a member of Iancu Dumitrescu’s Hyperion Ensemble International. His field of interest
and activity – beside music – includes the borderline and the margin of different art forms, too. Sőrés is
also collaborate with artists from different fields of art (choreographers, stage directors, fine artists,
video- and filmmakers). In 2012 he was the Hungarian curator of the international Sound Exchange –
Experimental Music Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe project. In 2014 Sőrés curated the first
collective international sound installation exhibition in Hungary called On the Edge of Perceptibility –
Sound Art at Kunsthalle, Budapest. In 2008 he edited a book and wrote a preface study about New
Chances of Autonomy with the texts by Hakim Bey aka Peter Lamborn Wilson among other onthological
anarchists. He is currently working with Inconsolable Ghost on the soundtrack to the new version of
Andrey Iskanov’s hallucinogenic horror classic Visions of Suffering.
http://inaplo.hu/ahad
unstable acoustic systems and continuous sound layers, which can develop towards a sound economy,
very similar to minimalism’s compositional solutions such as micro-structural and sound reduction space
arrangement. His music is characterised by the dramaturgy of the situation of intensive concentration
and reaction times (slower and quicker processes) because of a sense of suspension, where
sounds/noises are looped for a longer or shorter time, recycled and changed only slightly. Comprising an
improvised method of editing, it confronts the listener with an evolving sense of time and duration that
transcend questions of musical to focus in the idea of shape, in the potentialities of a sound
representation as stream of consciousness.
***
Zsolt Sőrés (Ahad)
Improvised, electroacoustic and noise musician, sound artist, editor and curator. Groups: duo with
Jean-Hervé Péron Art-Errorist (from the krautrock band Faust), Ahad & ChrS (with Christian Skjødt),
collaborations with Franz Hautzinger and Isabelle Duthoit, I Belong to the Band (with Adam Bohman, Oli
Mayne and Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg), trio with Richard Barrett and Milana Zarić, duo with Christian
Kobi etc. He is a member of Iancu Dumitrescu’s Hyperion Ensemble International. His field of interest
and activity – beside music – includes the borderline and the margin of different art forms, too. Sőrés is
also collaborate with artists from different fields of art (choreographers, stage directors, fine artists,
video- and filmmakers). In 2012 he was the Hungarian curator of the international Sound Exchange –
Experimental Music Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe project. In 2014 Sőrés curated the first
collective international sound installation exhibition in Hungary called On the Edge of Perceptibility –
Sound Art at Kunsthalle, Budapest. In 2008 he edited a book and wrote a preface study about New
Chances of Autonomy with the texts by Hakim Bey aka Peter Lamborn Wilson among other onthological
anarchists. He is currently working with Inconsolable Ghost on the soundtrack to the new version of
Andrey Iskanov’s hallucinogenic horror classic Visions of Suffering.
http://inaplo.hu/ahad
Zsolt Sőrés (Ahad)
Solo Performance / Improvisation
Friday, November 27th, 2015, 19.30
