Thirty years ago, the Budapest Music Center’s activities began with the founding of the Hungarian Music Information Center and Library – and it is here that our half-day series of events organized to mark this anniversary begins. The program features works by two contemporary Hungarian composers that do not require a performer to be played. One of the best-known pieces in this unconventional genre is Poème symphonique, composed for one hundred metronomes started simultaneously but at different speeds. The Etudes for MIDI piano use machine-controlled traditional piano sounds to realize compositional ideas that the physics of the human body would not allow. Artikulation brings to life the electronic musical interpretation of human speech articulation on magnetic tape, while Autokoncert is one of the most startling audiovisual works in Hungarian music history, in which the instruments are not played but are left to their own devices. Composer Marcell Dargay will guide the audience through the program in Hungarian.