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Sound walk in the former Jewish district of Płock as part of the Signal/Noise project

Sound walk in the former Jewish district of Płock as part of the Signal/Noise project

On Saturday, September 30, as part of this year’s Signal/Noise series, which the Nobiscum Foundation is implementing thanks to funding from the budget of the Mazovian Voivodeship, I would like to invite you to a sound walk around the former Jewish district of Płock. The 

Sound walk as part of the Jewish Culture Festival in Grodzisk Mazowiecki

Sound walk as part of the Jewish Culture Festival in Grodzisk Mazowiecki

On Sunday, August 20, at 2 pm, I will lead a sound walk as part of the Jewish Culture Festival in Grodzisk Mazowiecki. Meeting place: Monument to the Railwaymen at the Railway Station, 1 Maja 4 Street Registration is required for the event: warsztaty@festiwalkulturyzydowskiej.pl. The 

Interview in “Czas Kultury” regarding field recording projects

Interview in “Czas Kultury” regarding field recording projects

“Czas Kultury” website has published the second interview, in which we talk with Filip Szałasek about my fieldrecording projects. The link to read (in Polish only) can be found below.

“Eleven Floors” – audio collage awarded in an open call of the Mazovia Institute of Culture and Radio Kapitał

“Eleven Floors” – audio collage awarded in an open call of the Mazovia Institute of Culture and Radio Kapitał

My audio collage “Jedenaście pięter” [“Eleven Floors”] based on 7 field recordings made in a large-panel block of flats and its immediate vicinity using a microphone and geophone, was appreciated as one of three awarded works in an open call organized by the Mazovia Institute 

Resonance / תהודה / Rezonans – live premiere on 26 November

Resonance / תהודה / Rezonans – live premiere on 26 November

Resonance / תהודה / Rezonans is a live project which, apart from ambient and drone textures, uses found sounds sampled from old tapes containing fragments of music and spoken word related to the broadly understood Hebrew-language culture. I will play the project live on November 

МИР – Live for Ukraine. New release to support Ukraine

МИР – Live for Ukraine. New release to support Ukraine

As a follow-up to the recent charity concert for Ukraine organized by the Culture and Art Center in Płock and the Nobiscum Foundation, I am publishing a recording of my ambient-drone performance, and all the funds collected will of course go to further humanitarian aid for Ukraine organized by the Polish Center for International Aid (PCPM). Of course, I encourage you to support PCPM directly (without Bandcamp and PayPal fees) and download the recording for free. Remember to also support your local aid activities and Ukrainian artists!

Direct support for PCPM: https://pcpm.org.pl/ukraina

The concert recording is available here:

By the way, I would like to remind you, that 100% of my revenue from my whole BC I now donate to support Ukraine – until further notice.

Charity concert for Ukraine – 25 March

Charity concert for Ukraine – 25 March

On March 25, at 7.00 p.m., a charity concert for Ukraine takes place at the Płock Culture and Art Center, where I will have the pleasure to play together with friends from the bands kIRk and Schröttersburg. The organizers of the event are the Płock 

Na pohybel. Charity compilation for Ukraine released by Green Fairy Records

Na pohybel. Charity compilation for Ukraine released by Green Fairy Records

My track entitled Житомир can be found on a compilation released by Green Fairy Records the aim of which is to collect funds to support UNICEF Ukraine 🇺🇦 Check out the whole compilation including many great artists from all around the world and support free 

Sound map of the Vistula river coming up in December!

Sound map of the Vistula river coming up in December!

Growing up in a city, of which the river is an inseparable part, it is hard to imagine functioning in a place where there is no such river – no banks, bridges, or the presence of aquatic birds… The Vistula used to have great importance in terms of communication, trade, human life – however, there are no preserved significant audio records of this. Today, on the Vistula, we listen mainly to silence, the sound of water, the voices of birds and car traffic drones present in many places. We meet fishermen and canoeists every now and then. There are only a few operational cruise ships.

The sound map of the Vistula in the Mazovia region documents how the Vistula itself and the places located by the river sound today. It is a subjective documentation and such is the image that emerges from it. It can be a starting point for your own sound tours of the Vistula, and this form of specific “tourism”, requiring concentration, drastic limitation of our impact on the surrounding environment, as if in opposition to the omnipresent culture of the selfie, can give a lot of satisfaction, even if we do not use a microphone and we make no recordings.

Today, the Vistula River indeed sings with noise, but not only the noise generated by flowing water. It is impossible to escape the sounds of land and air traffic. These, although part of the current Vistula soundscape, are happening somewhat apart of the river itself – they are not the result of human interest in the Vistula, or the direct use of its resources. A motorboat, ferry or cruise boat that passes from time to time (the presence of the latter can still be noticed in Warsaw, Wyszogród and Płock) is only an audial shadow of the times when the Vistula was used quite commonly. The soundscape of those years can, however, be at best a field for the imagination and the memory of the non-existent. The Vistula A.D. 2021 recordings, being the content of this project, will remain. When and how will they be used? The possibilities, as always in the case of field recordings, come in various forms.

The first sound map of the Vistula in the Mazovia region, created as part of the project “Singing with noise”, there will be ca. 160 minutes of recordings made in 40 locations on the Mazovian section of the river. The map will be published as a double CD, which will be available free of charge in December 2021 in selected places in Mazovia.

The project “Singing with noise. The sound map of the Vistula in the Mazovia region” is implemented by the Nobiscum Foundation thanks to funding from the Self-Government of the Mazovian Voivodeship.

Field recordings: Piotr Dąbrowski

Photo and video documentation: Gabriela Nowak-Dąbrowska

Below you can find a video (oh, the irony!) trailer of the project. The Vistula soundscape recordings will be here soon!

New interview in Anxious Magazine

New interview in Anxious Magazine

An interview has just been published on the Anxious Magazine website in which I talk a bit about music, field recordings, releases, ideas and plans. I would like to thank Artur Mieczkowski for our conversation and invite everyone to visit the link below for some