4HOMO is a unique music project of a Slovenian-Macedonian, an Italian-Australian and two Italian musicians , experimenting with music and sounds, somewhere between jazz and ambient music. 4HOMO is a musical trilogy, a tribute to the Neanderthal man, who lived until around 40.000 years ago and faced the last period of his earthly existence alongside the homo sapiens, before finally disappearing in a relatively short time. 4HOMO was born with the idea of creating a soundscape evoking a day in the life of a prehistoric community.
The performance is characterized by the presence of Katinka Dimkaroska, musician from Ljubljana, of Macedonian origin, who plays an exact copy of the 60.000 year old Neanderthal Bone Flute, or tidldibab, made from a femur of a young cave bear and found in the excavations at the Divje Babe I cave in Slovenia. It is believed to be oldest musical instrument in the world.
Divided into three specific moments – the afternoon, the evening and the day after – 4HOMO provokes the different corresponding sounds, characterized by the choice of precise instruments and arrangements to give expression to forest, animals, birds, insects, the conviviality around the fire, the big hunt.
Tidldibab, percussion, voices, electric bass, didgeridoo and trumpets interact with sound atmospheres creating a kaleidoscopic game in continuous transformation. The first two parts of this hypothetical prehistoric day have distinctly ambient sonorities, while the last part, the awakening in the day after, dedicated to the great hunt, with a pulsating rhythm and very incisive sounds.
4HOMO has performed at To Be Continued Festival (2014), in various museums , in the caves of Clauzetto (Pordenone, Italy) invited by archaeologists who dig the shelters used as hunting stations by the Neanderthals, in December 2017 in the museum of natural history of Trieste (Italy), in July 2018 at Topolò Festival, in August 2018 in Šebrelije (Slovenia) near the Divije Babe I cave, and in Lake Ledro Stilt House Museum, International conservation andrestoration festival IKAR fest, Varaždin city museum (Croatia), Archaeological museum Zadar (Croatia), Museo archeologico nazionale Aquileia (Italy),
Upcoming concerts: 17.7. 2024 AESON arti nella natura, festival, Italy, 7.30 pm
BBC Reel recorded 4HOMO and Katinka Dimkaroska, the result can be seen here on BBC Reel.
Katinka Dimkaroska – tidldibab flute, tapan, voices
Mauro Bon – basguitar, sound scapes, percussion, voices, ebow
Boris Dimkaroski – trumpet, cornet, sound efects
Martin O’Loughlin – didgeridoo, percussion
