PP Sound

The PP Sound pillar sees music as a powerful tool capable of transcending lingual barriers and connecting people on a deeper level through a universal language. We see music not merely as an art form, but rather as a facilitator of cultural experiences that build community and strengthen cross-cultural relations. We strive to nurture and support the root system of our music industry, fostering connections, supporting emerging artists, and creating long-lasting impact through our sustainable projects, strongly supported by the European Commission.
The S-EEE project (Sustainable Emerging European Ensembles) aims to foster the transformation of Early Music into a sustainable and vibrant ecosystem. Our research-driven project, KidBeats aims at enhancing preschoolers’ musical development through sustainable, innovative, and immersive methods while creating an open accessible platform to connect musicians with children. ImGame interweaves serious gaming and immersive aesthetics, serving as a tool to interactively demonstrate research results concerning the phenomenon of immersiveness in contemporary art. Supporting and Promoting Arts in Rural Settlements of Europe (SPARSE) will foster rural touring in the partner countries, taking performances by professional performing arts companies and artists into rural areas to rural audiences in local community venues. The name of the Transparent Sound New Music Festival refers to its aims. Transparency in new music means that the audience is involved in interactive workshops and lectures before or during the events, to better understand the new compositional ideas. The RE-PATCHED project revives Bogusław Schaeffer’s legacy, bridging Eastern and Western European cultural heritage. Collective artists explore Bogusław Schaeffer’s unconventional methods, preserving and passing on his influence on young composers in experimental and contemporary music. The artistic team will be joined by the Youth Ensemble, selected through an international Open Call.

Katalin György-Dóczy – cultural manager, Head of PP Sound

Orsolya Kaincz – project manager

As a sound artist and project manager of the Pro Progressione Sound Pillar, my main motivation is to encourage awareness of our sound environment by exploring the cultural, ecological, and political layers of the sounds around us, which helps to reflect on and foster change in the complex social and environmental challenges we face.

Mind The Gap – Bridging the gender gap in contemporary music by promoting women and non-binary composers

Across Europe, less than 3% of classical and contemporary music performed between 2016 and 2018 was composed by women. Despite growing awareness, gender parity in music creation remains far from achieved. The Mind the Gapproject, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme, addresses this critical imbalance by highlighting, supporting, and amplifying the works of European women and non-binary composers across generations.

S-EEE – Sustainable EEEmerging

Sustainable EEEmerging (Emerging European Ensembles) is aiming to boost the sustainability of young artist careers and of organisations in Early Music.
This project fosters the transformation of Early Music into a sustainable and vibrant ecosystem.

HoME – Home. Music. Europe.

Our inner stories connected to wars, enmity, traumas are part of our oral history overarching generations in our family and can not be shared easily as they are extremely subjective and intimate. Our Family House project aims to create a space in which these shared stories can meet and become something nonverbal. Content of the shared words can be transferred to music in the form of a mobile installation set up in four countries settlements.

KidBeats

Since the beginning of human history, dating back to our primal ancestors, music has played a fundamental role in our evolution.

MOST

The mission of MOST is to boost the music market of the Balkans, by connecting and supporting actors of the world music scene; artists, managers, festivals and institutions. MOST builds a bridge connecting the Balkans and the global music market, a bridge made up of personal connections, experience and exchange.

ImGame

ImGame interweaves serious gaming and immersive aesthetics. It serves as a tool to interactively demonstrate the research results concerning the phenomenon of immersiveness in contemporary art.

SPARSE plus

Supporting and Promoting Arts in Rural Settlements of Europe (SPARSE) will foster rural touring in the partner countries taking performances by professional performing arts companies and artists into rural areas to rural audiences in local community venues.

Transparent Sound New Music Festival

The Transparent Sound New Music Festival (meaning also ‘see-through note’) was founded by two composers, Balázs Horváth and Samu Gryllus, in 2014 in cooperation with several renowned concert halls and organizations in Budapest: the Franz Liszt Music Academy, Trafo House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest Music Center, Müpa Budapest and FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture, among others.

Polyphony – Unknown Ukraine

POLYPHONY was a collaborative research project involving traditional and contemporary music and performing arts to discover, record and promote the disappearing cultural heritage of Ukraine. The main goal of the project was to digitize and archive the last living peasant music in the remote areas of Ukraine and to present it Europe-wide by using contemporary tools of music and performing arts.

Folk_ME – Folk music for the future generations

Folk_ME project targets public music education in Europe with developing an innovative digital tool.

RE-PATCHED

The RE-PATCHED project revives Bogusław Schaeffer’s legacy, bridging Eastern and Western European cultural heritage.