Dés András, Tilo Weber, Steve Argüelles

The essence of the special concept of Secondhand Sounds is that the provision of the instrument park will be entrusted to the audience instead of the musicians attending the concert. We ask them to bring used or discarded items from home that can become an instrument on stage by being given a new role. The evening is both a modern ceremony and a musical adventure, of which the audience also becomes an active part through the objects brought. It’s hard to predict what new emotional and meaning will be given to a musical process in which objects carrying personal stories will be the sources of the music being born.

The first part of the evening is about the construction of the special „instrument park ”: the arrivals hand over their objects to the musicians and possibly share their related stories. For the audience, these objects are a personal connection to the music, and for the musicians, exciting sound sources to explore. Since the musicians have no idea what “instruments ” will play that night, the music will be born from scratch on the spot during a performance that uses both space and time freely.

András Dés, Tilo Weber in Berlin and Steve Argüelles in Paris are experimental, path-finding musicians for whom such spontaneous and creative situations are the most joyful moments of making music. The meeting of the objects brought by the Budapest audience and the three artists goes against the traditional concert forms: it promises a one-time and unrepeatable evening celebrating the power of human relationships.