The performance by Primož Čučnik, Ana Pepelnik and Tomaž Grom (CPG) is an interaction of spoken word and experimental sound image, which not only serves as a base to the vocal performance, but in which both mediums enhance and interact with each other through improvisation.
Grom and Čučnik build up sonority with the double bass, sound objects and devices, everyday objects, various percussion instruments and "primitive" sound sources (e.g. toys, coins, marbles etc.), as well as through the experimental use of the record player. Ana Pepelnik complements the reading of the textual collage with spontaneous interjections, shifts in voice pitch, reading speed, repetitions and momentary variations to the textual base. The performance combines the different languages of "word, sound, noise, hum and silence", which the performers regard as equal parts of a whole, in the light of contemporary and innovative trends in 20th-century music.
"Sound in the making: not in relation to silence, but to itself, to sounds from different sources that are actually a single sound, elementary, monosyllabic, Sound, which comes from a single Mouth of silence. An abstraction full of playfulness that slowly and surely slips into memory." (Blaž Lukan, Delo)
Primož Čučnik (small sound objects, turntable, texts/collage)
Ana Pepelnik (voice)
Tomaž Grom (double bass, tabletop sound objects, electronics)
Ana Pepelnik, poet and translator. Her book Ena od variant, kako ravnati s skrivnostjo [One of the Ways How to Treat a Secret] was published in the Prišleki collection (LUD Literatura) in 2007. Two years later, her second book, Utrip oranžnih luči na semaforjih [The Orange Pulse of Traffic Lights], was released by the same publishing house. Her most recent books are Tehno [Techno] (2017), Treš [Trash] (2021), To se ne pove [You Don't Say That] (2023, Kritiško sito Slovene Literary Critics Association Award 2024) and V drevo [Into the Tree] (2025). Between 2003 and 2008, she was an active presenter on Radio Študent. She translates from and into English, mainly contemporary American authors. She has been a member of CPG since its very beginning.
Primož Čučnik, poet, translator and editor. Has published several volumes of poetry, including Dve zimi [Two Winters] (1999, Best First Book Award), Nova okna [New Windows] (2005) and Sekira v medu [Stroke of Luck] (selected poems, 2006), Delo in dom [Work and Home] (2007, Prešeren Fund Award), Kot dar [As a Gift] (2010) and Mikado (2012). His most recent books are Piš čez sen [Breeze over Dream] (2019), Niti v sanjah [Not Even in Your Dreams] (2022) and Osel in senca [Donkey and Shadow] (2024). He is the poetry editor at Literatura magazine, as well as the editor and founder of the small non-profit publishing house Šerpa. His collaboration with Tomaž Grom and Tao G. V. Sambolec dates back to 1999, on the album Dvojnik [Double]. Later, he and Grom also contributed to the compilation Košček hrupa in ščepec soli [A Piece of Noise and a Pinch of Salt] (KUD F.P., 2002). He has been a member of CPG since its very beginning.
Tomaž Grom is an experimental musician, improviser and filmmaker. He has performed at festivals throughout Europe and North America, and has composed original music for numerous theatre, dance and puppet productions, as well as for film. He is the founder and programme director of Zavod Sploh, an organisation dedicated to music and performing arts production, education and publishing, under whose auspices he also curates the Sound Disobedience Festival known as Neposlušno. He also curated the sound cycle series Confine aperto and Zvokotok until 2018 and Neforma until 2013. He is the author of several performance works, including Keemo; Carte Blanche; Rib Cage (with Anja Novak); Bruto, Ništrc (part of the Arservis art collection); Forgotten, Overlooked; Soul, Noize, Valve and Wire. His works include the sound installation On This Merry Day of Culture and the long-term project iMstrument. In recent years, he has been playing in the groups Oholo!, Dörner / Grom, Kaučič / Grom, Kutin / Grom, Tomažin / Grom, Šalter Ensemble. He has been a member of the CPG almost since its beginning.
