»eco stories« is an intermedial composition. The integration of objects, video, and living plants expands the ensemble into a hybrid constellation where human and non-human actors enter into a shared sonic ecology. The expanded composition unfolds as a dynamic sound environment that engages with ecological fragility and transformation in the Anthropocene. The five sections – Mechanics, Drifting, Urban Anthropocene, Recycled Loops, and CO₂-based Respiration – invite the audience to reconsider the interplay between humans and the environment from new perspectives. Instrumental gestures, field recordings, and electronic processes intertwine into a dense network of superimpositions and feedback loops. Microtonality and extended performance techniques destabilize familiar sonic organization, creating fluid transitions between organic and synthetic materials. »eco stories« approaches listening as a situated practice, as a navigation through fragile, shifting equilibria.

Żaneta Rydzewska is a composer, clarinetist and improviser. In her artistic practice, she often draws on themes from nature, contemporary social problems, literature, philosophy and physics. She incorporates the latest technologies, builds sound installations, and combines music with light, movement and video. She studied composition at the Cologne University of Music and Dance and at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, and also completed postgraduate studies in philosophy at the University of Warsaw. Żaneta Rydzewska has received numerous scholarships and awards, including the Bernd Alois Zimmerman Scholarship in Cologne and the award for »Best Original Score« at the WIFFEN Festival.

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