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* Richard Kitta, Michal Murin, [[Media:Kitta_Richard_Murin_Michal_Nazov_Podnazov_Nazor_Podnazor_Rozhovor_s_Milanom_Adamciakom.pdf|"Názov (?) Podnázov (!) Názor (!) Podnázor (?) Rozhovor s Milanom Adamčiakom"]], ''Dotyky'' 4, 2012. {{sk}}
 
* Richard Kitta, Michal Murin, [[Media:Kitta_Richard_Murin_Michal_Nazov_Podnazov_Nazor_Podnazor_Rozhovor_s_Milanom_Adamciakom.pdf|"Názov (?) Podnázov (!) Názor (!) Podnázor (?) Rozhovor s Milanom Adamčiakom"]], ''Dotyky'' 4, 2012. {{sk}}
 
* [http://www.rovart.com/en/archiv.php?id=1985 "Milan Adamčiak Familiar and Unknown: From the interview with Milan Adamčiak about his experimental poetry and other literary and dramatic texts"] (Part 1), [http://www.rovart.com/en/archiv.php?id=1986 Part 2], trans. Alexander Avenarius, Košice: Dive Buki, 27 Apr 2012. {{en}}
 
* [http://www.rovart.com/en/archiv.php?id=1985 "Milan Adamčiak Familiar and Unknown: From the interview with Milan Adamčiak about his experimental poetry and other literary and dramatic texts"] (Part 1), [http://www.rovart.com/en/archiv.php?id=1986 Part 2], trans. Alexander Avenarius, Košice: Dive Buki, 27 Apr 2012. {{en}}
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* [http://database.unearthingthemusic.eu/Milan_Adamčiak_interviewed_by_Dušan_Barok "Milan Adamčiak interviewed by Dušan Barok"], trans. Lucia Udvardyová, ''Unearthing the Music'', Dec 2019. Conducted Apr 2012. {{en}}
  
 
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* [http://hc.sk/hudba/osobnost-detail/53-milan-adamciak Adamčiak's profile on Hudobné centrum], [http://web.archive.org/web/20070108174943/http://www.hc.sk/src/skladatel.php?lg=en&oid=53 (archived version)]
 
* [http://hc.sk/hudba/osobnost-detail/53-milan-adamciak Adamčiak's profile on Hudobné centrum], [http://web.archive.org/web/20070108174943/http://www.hc.sk/src/skladatel.php?lg=en&oid=53 (archived version)]
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* [http://www.jama.ooo/ JAMA - 73. ročník Milana Adamčiaka], international festival of intermedia art, Banská Štiavnica, Banská Belá and surroundings, 2019. [https://www.facebook.com/events/476455936244323/ Facebook event]. [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3092349880780161&type=3 Photos].
 
* [http://www.artandconcept.eu/cz/adamciak/index.htm Adamčiak's profile and works on the website of Artandconcept Gallery], [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.195372663831865.42378.195366790499119]
 
* [http://www.artandconcept.eu/cz/adamciak/index.htm Adamčiak's profile and works on the website of Artandconcept Gallery], [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.195372663831865.42378.195366790499119]
 
* [http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/133871/lang/1 Adamčiak on Artfacts.net]
 
* [http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/133871/lang/1 Adamčiak on Artfacts.net]

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Milan Adamčiak with John Cage in front of the Clarissine Church, Bratislava, June 1992. Photo: Milan David.
Born December 16, 1946(1946-12-16)
Ružomberok, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
Died January 16, 2017(2017-01-16) (aged 70)
Banská Belá, Slovakia
Collections Art museums in Slovakia (Web umenia)

Milan Adamčiak (1946-2017) was a Slovak composer, cellist and musicologist; author of acoustic objects, installations and unconventional musical instruments; performer, visual artist, experimental poet, and mystifier.


Sympózium dňa, dir. Samuel Ivaška, 1988, 21 min. TV documentary on Milan Adamčiak; in Slovak. Source.

Biography

Milan Adamčiak and Jozef Revallo performing as Ensemble Comp. Duo at the New Music Seminar I., Smolenice, 1969. Photo Juraj Bartoš.
Milan Adamčiak and Róbert Cyprich performing Trojrozmerná partitúra č. 3 [Three-dimensional score No. 3. 1969] at the 1. večer Novej hudby [First Evening of New Music], Dom osvety, Ružomberok, 1969. Photo: Ľubomír Adamčiak.

Adamčiak was born in 1946 in Ružomberok. He studied cello at the Conservatory (music school) in Žilina (1962-68) and musicology at the Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University Bratislava (1968-73). From 1972-91 he worked at the Institute of Musical Studies (later renamed to Institute of Art Studies) of Slovak Academy of Sciences as a researcher of 20th century music and relations between music and visual arts. In parallel he worked as a lecturer on 20th century music at the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava (1977-88), the Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University, Bratislava (1979-88), and the Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava (1991).

From the mid-1960s he focused primarily on experimental poetry, graphic scores, and constructing sound objects. Trained in a traditional way but influenced by the poetics of John Cage and Fluxus, he created a large body of work that transgressed the conventional definitions of the arts and quickly moved towards the concepts of opera aperta, action music and various intermedia forms. He also experimented with electronic media, and created several pieces of electroacoustic music and musique concrète, but it was primarily live electronics that fit the principles of his radical poetics. In the second half of the 1960s he worked in several collectives, namely DAD (1965), and Ensemble Comp. (1967, with Róbert Cyprich and Jozef Revallo). At the same time, he carried out sound and music parts of several projects by other authors (Alex Mlynárčik, Jana Želibská, Jarmila Čihánková). By the end of the 1980s he renewed these activities by starting the Transmusic comp. - Ensemble of unconventional music (1989), founding the Society of Unconventional Music (Spoločnosť pre nekonvenčnú hudbu, SNEH, 1990) and initiating the FIT - Festival of intermedia creativity (Bratislava, 1991 and 1992). In 1990 he co-founded New Seriousness with Július Koller and Peter Rónai. From 2005 Adamčiak collaborated with Michal Murin on the social project Altruism as Arttruism. He lived the last years of his life in Banská Belá near Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia.

in German

Urspruenglig Violoncellist, später Musikwissenschaftler, Mitglied der Slowakischen Akademie der Wissenschafften (1972-91). Seit 1964 beschäftigte sich mit experimentellen Poesie und Musikalischen Graphik unnd war tätig auch als Aktionkuenstler. In 1974 war Teilnehmer an Darmstädter Ferienkurse fuer Neue Musik. Nach 1989 inizierte Entstähung der Transmusic Comp. - ein offene Ensemble fuer Musikperformance mit seine gefundene und home made Klangobjekten. und hat Gesellschaft fuer unkinventionelle Musik mit Michal Murin und Peter Machajdík gegruendet. Als Kurator hat in Slowakischen Nationale Galerie mit persoenlichen Partizipation von John Cage eine grosse Austellung seinner Partituren in 1992 präsentiert. In letzten Jahren war tätig als Performer und Installationskuensttler. Dank Michal Murins Initiativen ist seine ältere und neue Schaffen mehr kennengelehrt und akzeptiert.

in Czech

"Adamčiak se jako jeden z prvních začínal cílevědomě věnovat výzkumu v rámci intermediálních programů. Upřednostňoval vizuální experimentální poezii, kterou později rozšířil na hudební a poetické kreace - hudební akce happeningového a eventového typu. Často vycházel z ozvláštňování běžných událostí postavených na individuálních zážitcích. Své projekty prezentoval jako akce pro několik jedinců jako ve Zpívajících fontánách, založených na bezprostředním komorním účinkovaní pod sprchou, které vznikaly od roku 1966, nebo ve veřejném, zřídka kdy pochopeném prezentovaní akcí jako Requiem nebo Pocty Františkovi z Assisi z roku 1968. Od roku 1968 se začínal rozsáhleji věnovat hudebně-prostorovým projektům, přičemž ve většině byl cítit výrazný vliv Johna Cageho. Adamčiak si uvědomoval, že 'partitura skladby se silnými náhodnými (aleatornými) prvky se vlivem své grafické struktury dostává i do sféry výtvarné a tím může působit i jako volný grafický list, stává se teda nositelem hudební i výtvarné informace.'" (Source)

Works

Water Music, 1970

with Róbert Cyprich, in collaboration with Jozef Revallo. Music happening in the indoor swimming pool, Juraj Hronec college dormitory, Bratislava, 14 Mar 1970. Based on Georg Friedrich Händel's piece. Photo Juraj Bartoš. Invitation text.

selection
See also

List of music works on the website of Music Centre Slovakia

Discography

Filmography

  • Sympózium dňa, dir. Samuel Ivaška, ČST Bratislava, 1988, 21 min. TV documentary.
  • Podhubie - podhudbie, STV.
  • Transmédia, dir. Novan, STV, 1990.
  • UM, dir. Kaiser - Princ, STV, 1990.
  • Opak je pravdou [The Opposite is True], dir. Arnold Kojnok, FVU AU Banská Bystrica, 2007, 15 min. Video documentary.
  • Muzikológ a tvorca [Musicologist as Creator], dir. Arnold Kojnok, VŠMU + FVU AU BB, 2009, 44 min. Documentary. More information.
  • Genug, dir. Michal Murin, 2009, 20 min.

Exhibitions

  • Otvorené diela alebo GENUG, 28 May-27 Aug 2009, Linea Gallery, Bratislava. Prepared by Michal Murin.
  • Transmusic Comp., Cyprián Majerník Gallery, Bratislava, 14 Nov-22 Dec 2009. With Michal Murin.
  • Pracovná pamäť / Working memory, with Milan Adamčiak, Tranzit workshops, Bratislava, 15 May-13 Jun 2009. Curated by Lucia Gavulová.
  • 10 x 10, European Culture Congress, Wroclaw, 2011. Group exhibition; participating with the work Altruism as Artruism: Archív solidarity with Michal Murin. [1]
  • Galanta Songs, Tranzit workshops, Bratislava, 30 May-17 Jun 2012. Curated by Lucia Gavulová.
  • EX-PO, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, 21 Sep-24 Nov 2012.
  • Panphilia, Zahorian Gallery, Bratislava, 28 Oct-15 Dec 2016. Curated by Daniel Grúň.
  • Adamčiak, začni! / Adamčiak, Begin!, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, 23 Mar-4 Jun 2017. Retrospective of Adamčiak's intermedia works, 1964-2017; curated by Lucia Gregorová Stach and Michal Murin.

List of Adamčiak's exhibitions on Artfacts

Publications

Archív, I-IV, 2011-16.

Collected works

  • Archív I (EXPO): experimentálna poézia 1964-1972 / Archive 1: Experimental Poetry 1964-1972, ed. & intro. Michal Murin, afterw. Daniel Grúň, Košice: Dive Buki, 2011, 352 pp. TOC & Introduction, Review, Publisher. (Slovak),(English),(French)
  • Archív II (KOPO): konkrétna poézia 1964-1972, ed. Michal Murin, Košice: Dive Buki, 2016, 330 pp. Publisher. (Slovak)
  • Archív III (NÔTY): notácie a grafické partitúry / Archive III (NÔTY): notations and graphic scores, ed. Michal Murin, Košice: Dive Buki, 2013, 413 pp. Publisher. (Slovak),(English)
  • Archív IV (AKTY): Akcie, performancie, projekty, koncepty a výstavy, eds. Milan Adamčiak and Michal Murin, Košice: Dive Buki, 2016, 389 pp. Publisher. (Slovak)

Papers

  • "Hudobné problémy výtvarného umenia 20. storočia", Slovenská hudba 15:10, Bratislava, 1971, pp 356-362. (Slovak)
  • "Fónická poézia a hudba", Slovenská hudba 15:6-7, Bratislava, 1971, pp 243-248; repr. in kloaka 1:1-2, Bratislava: Literis, Apr 2010, pp 18-21. (Slovak)
  • "Kontinuita zápasu o socialistický ráz slovenskej hudobnej tvorby", in Socialistický realizmus a súčasná umelecká kultúra. Zborník referátov zo sympózia, Bratislava: VEDA, 1987. (Slovak)
  • "Leoš Janáček and His Influence on Slovak Music", in Janáček and Czech Music: Proceedings of the International Conference (Saint Louis, 1988), eds. Glen Bauer and Michael Beckerman, Pendragon Press, 1995, pp 301-307. [2] (English)
  • "Príbeh jednej hudby", Slovenská hudba 22:1-2, Bratislava, 1996, pp 7-10. (Slovak)
  • "Z histórie podávania súčasnej slovenskej hudby", Hudobný život 1-2, 2017, pp 30-31. (Slovak)

Articles, reviews

Adamčiak, začni! / Adamčiak, Begin!, 2017, PDF.

Exhibition catalogues

  • Adamčiak, et al., Hommage à John Cage, ed. Jozef Cseres, Bratislava: Slovenský rozhlas & SNEH, 1992, [28] pp. Exh. held Cyprian Majernik Gallery, Bratislava, 15 Jun-4 Jul 1992; Art Gallery, Nové Zámky, 14-31 Jul 1992. (Slovak)/(English)
  • Adamčiak, začni! / Adamčiak, Begin!, eds. Lucia Gregorová Stach and Michal Murin, Bratislava: Slovak National Gallery, 2017, 39 pp. Retrospective of Adamčiak's intermedia works, 1964-2017; held 23 Mar-4 Jun 2017. (Slovak)/(English)

Interviews

Literature

Essays, articles

more

Theses

Obituaries

Murin (Hudobný život), Cseres (Hudobný život), Matej (Hudobný život), Rehák, Németh, Balog (Denník N), Murin (SME), Cseres (Pravda), Cifra (Literárny týždenník), Ružomberský (Spolok ZA), Hutko (Postoj). (Slovak)

See also

Links

Contact

michal.murin(at)gmail.com