Improvised electronic music, field recording, sound activism
My field recordings from Grodzisk Mazowiecki, made mostly in the area of the ghetto liquidated by the Germans in February 1941, will be part of an installation presented by the ‘Nowa Kultura i Edukacja’ Association at 11 Listopada 39 Street. In the words of the …
The second part of the Sound Map of Płock will be published in December 2025, featuring new field recordings from the city and constituting a continuation of the 2022 project. Below is a note from the website of the Nobiscum Foundation, the publisher of my …
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 soundscapes, mapping neighbourhoods and suburban areas, the creative use of recordings in composition, and monitoring space through sound using machine learning.
More information about the event can be found on the organizer’s website:
Graphics: main theme “Echoes of cities – co-hearing the post-industrial past and the sonic future” by Justyna Anders-Morawska.
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 …
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 number of places is limited
A few practical tips: if you want to take recording equipment with you (or even use your phone, because in many cases you can also make interesting recordings with it), you can do it, but there will be absolutely no need to record anything during the walk. We will listen to contemporary Grodzisk and, at the same time, we attempt to consider its soundscape in the interwar period, which was shaped also by the Jews of Grodzisk. We are definitely going to walk a bit, so, considering the weather, don’t forget to wear comfortable shoes and have something to drink with you.
Full program of the festival (in Polish): https://festiwalkulturyzydowskiej.pl/program/
“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 …
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 26 this year at 6.00 pm at the Museum of Mazovian Jews as part of the “Elektronika po żydowsku” event.
I would like to thank Kuba Sawicki aka Vidno for inviting me to participate in the event. See you there!
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 …