For Daniel Aga, contemporary city life assumes a rhythm that often excludes the contemplation of the environment we cross daily. The many challenges we face have the effect of diminishing our ability to pay attention to detail and enjoy the context around us. As part of the Energy! grant, Daniel Aga will create a music album which will explore another dimension of the city, its sounds.

"A soul of the city that exists beyond buildings, parks, festivals, revolutions, earthquakes, sieges, demolitions and reconstructions. More than analyzing what urban life means, my approach seeks to provide an answer to the question of what Timisoara is made of. In general, I would answer that it is made of Secession, Viennese waltzes, bastions, cardinal points, Phoenix, buried Turkish baths, techno, revolutions, Banat music, theaters, d'n'b and many trees"

The challenge will be for Daniel Aga to find the harmony between the disparate elements that together create a city, and the end result - the album/music to be easily accessible. The musician feels challenged by this idea/intention, namely to finally be able to reproduce the subjective impressions of various places in the city such as Iosefin Square, Bega, Regina Maria Park, Cardinal Points, Turkish Bath, Fabric, etc. Stories and places rendered suggestively through characteristic melodic lines alternating with fragments of atmospheric recordings or interviews with locals will become the subjects of the album.

Daniel Aga will live in Timișoara for the duration of the scholarship and will set up a small studio where he will compose and edit the recordings, invite local artists to jaming sessions. Among the collaborators will be Trompetre, K-lu, Alex Halka, and others.