Improvised electronic music, field recording, sound activism
On Friday, November 7th, I would like to invite you to Łódź for a discussion about field recordings with Maciej Adamiak, Justyna Anders-Morawska, Joanna Szumacher, and myself as part of the Resonant Cities project. We will discuss the use of field recordings in archiving urban …
This is the fourth large fieldrecording publication that I have prepared, published by the Nobiscum Foundation. As always, the recordings are accompanied by photographs by Gabriela Nowak-Dąbrowska. Radziwie is currently a district of Płock, incorporated into the city 100 years ago. The audiosphere of contemporary …
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 walk starts at 1 p.m. The meeting place is the Square of the Executed 13. The walk around the Jewish district will take approximately 1.5 hours. Participation is free of charge, but requires confirmation: warsztaty@fundacjanobiscum.eu or by phone +48 574 188 454
During the walk, we will listen to sounds in places that were once full of life of the Płock Jewish community. We will consider the origin and role of these sounds in the process of (non)remembering, as well as the audiosphere, irretrievably lost and not recorded in any way, although sometimes described in literary texts.
You will not need any recording equipment to participate in the walk, although participants will of course be able to make recordings if they wish.
More information (in Polish):
PS: three days later – on October 3 – another sound walk will take place, this time led by Marcin Dymiter, with whom I will also talk about the book “Maszyny do ciszy” [“Machines for Silence”] and who will play a concert as Emiter.
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 …
“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.
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 of Culture and Radio Kapitał.
The premiere of the awarded works on Radio Kapitał on December 16 at 1:00 p.m. Recording of the radio premiere is available below (in Polish):
According to the jury: “A journey into a world close but unknown. The combination of field recordings and geophone recordings resulted in a fascinating sound image of the block as a mysterious labyrinth that is in constant motion, the space of which is still not fully explored. Elevators, chutes and other places seem to have a life of their own, in addition, we are constantly communing with the sounds of other people, whose intimacy is present right next to us. The work was distinguished by a mature approach to the sound matter and unforced musicality emphasized by sounds arranged in a characteristic mantric rhythm.”
More info: https://relacjeonline.pl/
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 …
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 …
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 Culture and Art Center and the Nobiscum Foundation. Admission to the concert is free, but we will be holding a fundraiser during the event. The collected funds will go to the Polish Center for International Aid Foundation, which organizes aid activities for Ukraine: https://pcpm.org.pl/ukraina
More information (in Polish): https://fundacjanobiscum.eu/koncert-benefitowy-dla-ukrainy-kirk-piotr-dabrowski-schrottersburg/
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 …