Zsolt Sőrés (aka Ahad)
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He was born in Budapest, Hungary in 01/01/1969, and he still lives there. He is a violinist. He is an improvised/electroacoustic and noise musician, performance and conceptual artist. His field of interest and activity - beside music - includes the borderline and the margin of different art forms. Since 1996 he has been one of the managig editors of the avant-garde and experimental artistic periodical, Magyar Műhely (Hungarian Workshop) and the editor of the musical coloumn of Jump Contemporary Performance Art Magazine. Since 1992 he is the member and the program managing editor of the still independent Tilos Rádió (Forbidden Radio). He has participated in several experimental artistic exhibitions since 1994. He was the musical member of Eszter Gál`s experimental dance company between 1995-1997 and St. Assembly/Company (Hungary) since 1999 and Cie2in1 (Austria-Hungary) since 2004 and he worked with Sylvia Scheidl and Mariella Greil (Austria) in 2005. From 2006 he is also working with Gábor Goda's Artus Company. He worked together with other coreographers/dancers, poets, fine artists and conceptual artists such as Bryan Sentes (Canada), Jutta Obenhuber (Germany) and LENGOW & HEyeRMEarS (Slovakia). He was of the co-founder of several hungarian experimental music groups, especially SoKaPaNaSz (1993-1994), Talesco. (1994-1997) and the still exist Spiritus Noister. He has been working together with Zsolt Kovács in the improvisational duo with the name of s.k. since 1994. He has performed music - among others in ad hoc groups and different projects - with Le Quan Ninh (F), Martine Altenburger (F), Alessandro Bossetti (I), Burkhard Stangl (A), Manon Liu Winter (A), Helge Hinteregger (A),Peter Herbert (A/F), Phill Niblock (USA), Ernő Király (YU), KJ Holmes (USA), Martin Klapper (DK), Johannes Bauer (D), Alexander Frangenheim (D), Wolfgang Fuchs(D), Paul Lovens (D), Thomas Lehn (D), Torsten Müller (D), Birgit Ulher (D), Dorothea Schürch (CH), Dieter Ulrich (CH), Voicecrack+Günter Müller (CH), Toshi Makihara (J/USA), AMM Ensemble (GB), John Butcher (GB), Peter Cusack (GB), Rhodri Davies (GB), John Edwards (GB), Phil Durrant (GB), Tim Hodgkinson (GB), Stuart Jones (GB), Phil Minton (GB), Evan Parker (GB), John Russel (GB), Pat Thomas (GB), Alan Tomlinson (GB), Roger Turner (GB), Veryan Weston (GB), Mats Gustafsson (S) and Raymond Strid (S). Beside Hungary he has performed pieces of music and of conceptual performance in Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Since 2000, he is the member of The Abstract Monarchy Trio (Austria-Hungary, with Franz Hautzinger and Zsolt Kovács); since 2001 also the member of Budapastis (France-Hungary, with Lore Bargčs, Zsolt Kovács and Franq de Quengo), izo-fr (with Zsolt Kovács and Pál Tóth) and Anti Action (Canada-Hungary, with Laura Kavanaugh and Ian Birse). Since 2002 he is the member of The Sonic Catering Band (with Peter Strickland, Tim Kirby, Colin Potter, R. R. Habarc, Zsolt Kovács, Pál Tóth among others) and PAW Music (France-Hungary, with Quentin Rollet and Pál Tóth). Since 2002 he is also the member of the concept art group The Lazy Anarchists (Hungary-Slovakia-USA, with Jozef Cseres, Zsolt Kovács, Gen Ken Montgomery and Ben Patterson). He was one of the main organizer of Pause-Sign (Szünetjel) International Experimental Music Festival in Budapest till 2001. Since 2004 he is a teacher of Kontakt Budapest - Festival and Workshop of Improvisation. He is the main organizer of the Club of Invisible Films project at Ludwig Museum in Budapest. From 2006 he started his own special solo project under the pseudonym DJ AHAD, and using audio files from underground and avant-garde movies. Since 2008 he is the artistic director of Relative (Cross)Hearings Contemporary Music Meeting in Budapest. Selected disco- and sonography:- SoKaPaNaSz: Mezzofoszfát / Mezzophosphate - 1994. Magyar Műhely, Paris-Wien-Budapest, MMMK 001 (cassette) - Spiritus Noister: Spiritus Noister - 1994. Új Hölgyfutár ÚHF, Budapest, Spiritus Kazetta SK 001 (cassette) Nemzeti Zajzárványok / National Noise-Inclusions - 1996. Bahia Music, Budapest, MKB 057 (cassette) Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters for two voices & musical environment - 2003. Hungaroton Classic, HCD 32259
- Mesékstb./Talesco.:
Vol. 2.: Out of Jazz - 1996. Laza Lapok, Budapest, MSTBCD2 (CD) Vol. 3.: Gothico Barokko - 1996. Laza Lapok, Budapest, MSTBCD3 (CD) Vol. 4.: Twelve - 1997. Laza Lapok, Budapest, MSTBCD4 (audiovisual CD-R) - s.k.: Live in Nové Zámky, Budapest and Kraków - 1999. Magyar Műhely , Budapest Les Subsistances - 2001. Avult006, Pilisszentlászló Lessness - 2002. Ultrahang Records, UH_2, Budapest In: Typewriter Aloud, Typos Allowed - 2002. HEyeRMEarS Discorbie, HD CD004, sampler CD, Nové Zámky, Slovakia - Budapastis: La bouche fermée - 2002. HEyeRMEarS Discorbie, HD CD003, Nové Zámky, Slovakia - Abstract Monarchy Trio In: Extended Europe - 2002. Salonelise 2, sampler CD, Austria In: In the East - 2002. ORF1, sampler CD, AustriaIn: From Gdansk Till Down… - 2002. Leonardo Music Journal 12, sampler CD, USA In: Continental Drift - Peripheral Conserve 14, UK Leading / Spirit / Minimalism - (2004)2005. HEyeRMEarS Discorbie, HD CD007, Nové Zámky-Brno, Slovakia-Czech Republic - Laura Kavanaugh - Ian Birse - Zsolt Sőrés Anti Action - 2002. HEyeRMEarS Discorbie, HD CD006, Nové Zámky, Slovakia - The Sonic Catering Band 1093 Budapest IX., Lónyay u. 7., Magyarország (22.09.2002 19.45-20.52) - 2002. Peripheral Conserve 09, UK Seven Transdanubian Recipes - 2003. Peripheral Conserve 13, UK - The Lazy Anarchists In: Typewriter Aloud, Typos Allowed - 2002. HEyeRMEarS Discorbie, HD CD004, sampler CD, Nové Zámky, Slovakia In: Continetal Drift 2005. - Peripheral Conserve 14, UK Sound anthologies (selected) Hang költészet-hang/Voice Poetry-Voice. Laza Lapok Budapest, 1994. (casette) Transart Communication 1995-1996. Studio erté, Nové Zámky, Slovakia, 1998. (CD-ROM) Transart Communication 2001. Studio erté, Nové Zámky, Slovakia, 2002. (CD-ROM) Festivals and bigger event series (selected) Polyphonix Festival of Phonic Poetry - 1994, Budapest, Hungary Perforium Inetrnational Performance Art Festival - 1995, Budapest, Hungary I-IX. Pause-Sign International Experimental Music Festival -1994-2000, MU Theatre, Budapest, Hungary Transart Communication Multimedia Art Festivals and IV-V. Sound Off Non-Conventional Music Festival - 1995-1996, 1999, 2001, Nové Zámky, Bratislava, Nitra, Slovakia, Brno, Czech Republic and Budapest, Hungary X-Change International Experimental Dance/Performance Festival - 1996, Dusseldorf, Arnhem, Nijmegen, Germany and The Netherlands VeneziaPoesia Performace Art Festival - 1997, Venice, Italy Festiwal Nowa Sztuka z Węgier - 1999, Cracow, Poland Let's Go to the Next Millenium, International Avantgarde and Performance Art Symposium - 1999, Violín, Slovakia Audio Art Festival - 1999, 2005 Cracow, Poland Underground Budapest Music Festival at Batofar - 1999, Paris, France Ost.Süd.Ost. Musik und Mehr - 2000, Schloss Kittsee, Austria Real Time Music Meeting - 2000, Hamburg, Germany Hotel Pupik Art Symposium - 2000, 2002 Schrattenberg bei Scheifling, Austria Ex-EU Festival - 2001, Porgy and Bess, Vienna, Austria 2e Polysonneries Festival - 2001, Lyon - Marseille, France Artacts2 - 2002, Alte Gerberei and St. Antonius Kapelle, St. Johann in Tirol, Austria Musikprotokoll 2002. - Graz, Austria Ultrasound Festival - 2003, Budapest and Szeged, Hungary Wien Modern - 2003, Porgy and Bess, Vienna, Austria V., VI., VII., VIII., IX.. Hungarian and International Performance and New Music Festival - 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Szentendre, Hungary line_in@leipzig Fesztivál - 2004, Leipzig, Germany Intro Fesztivál - 2005, Budapest, Hungary Unidram 2005 -2005, Potsdam, Germany Mystére de L'Est - 2005, Paris, France Stimul 2, The Continuous Festival of Different Music - 2006, Prague, Czech Republic 2 (+1) Days of Contemporary Music - 2006, Opava, Czech Republic Paprika Jam - 2006, Cracow, Poland Poëzie en muziekfestival „Vurige Tongen” - 2006, Ruigoord, The Netherlands III., IV., V., VI. Kontakt Budapest Festival and Workshop Series of Improvisation - 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Budapest, Hungary V., VI. L1 Contemporary Dance Festival - 2006, 2007 Budapest, Hungary Strídáni / Days of Exchange Fesztivál - 2007, Prague, Czech Republic XIII. SZASSZ - XVIII. Thealter International Alternative Theatre Festival - 2007 Szeged, Hungary Temps D'Images Festival - 2006, 2007, Budapest, Hungary HERMES Ear - 2007 Nitra, Slovakia Relative (Cross)Hearings Contemporary Music Meeting - 2008, Budapest, Hungary
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