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##Exploratory Music From Poland Live: Dizzy Kinetics (Zenial + Marek Choloniewski), Robert Piotrowicz, Anna Zaradny, Tomasz Krakowiak, Ultra Functor, Chihei Hatakeyama [](http://emfp.pl/) [Exploratory Music From Poland Homepage](http://emfp.pl/) Artist info: ##DIZZY KINETICS [dizzykinetics.wordpress.com](http://dizzykinetics.wordpress.com/) Zenial (Lukasz Szalankiewicz)  Lukasz Szalankiewicz, aka "Zenial" (Music and Sound Design) is a Krakow-based artist, sound designer, historian, and a contemporary electronic music curator. A member of the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music (PSeME), he has participated in international festivals in Austria, Russia, Bulgaria, Germany, Holland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, France, China, Hungary, Belarus, Romania, Lithuania, Israel, Kazakhstan, Peru, Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Mexico and the USA (most recently at the 2011 Focus! Festival organized by Juilliard and the Polish Cultural Institute in New York). He has performed in Poland at the Audio Art Festival, Unsound Festival, Wro Festival, and at the Kordegarda Gallery (Warsaw), Zamek Ujazdowski Contemporary Art Centre (Warsaw), Contemporary Art Gallery Arsenal (Bialystok), Contemporary Art Gallery (Wroclaw) and in many other venues. Currently he curates the sound art program at Contemporary Art Center Laznia in Gdansk. His work ranges from research to audiovisual performance and interactive installations. He has released albums under the names Zenial and Palsecam and is one half of the duo AABZU with Maciej Szymczuk. Szalankiewicz is a co founder of the AudioTong label, a platform for experimental music and sound art operating from Krakow, Poland, since 2005. [zenial.audiotong.net](http://www.zenial.audiotong.net/) / [myspace](http://www.myspace.com/zenialowski) [Youtube: ZENIAL/ PL @ ZONE 22.05.2009](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LH-cL6f3rY&feature=player_embedded) Marek Choloniewski  Born 1953, in Krakow. Studied organ (with L. Werner), theory of music and composition (with B. Schaeffer) and electronic music (with J. Patkowski) at the Krakow Academy of Music, since 2000 the director of the Electro-acoustic Music Studio. Founder and co-founder of many groups and societies: Muzyka Centrum Art Society, Freight Train, Studio MCH, DoubleMark, CH&K&K, mc2 duo duo, Infinity Quartett, Kinetic Trio and dizzy kinetics. Choloniewski writes instrumental, electroacoustic, music for theater, film and radio, author of sound and video installations, audio-visual, outdoor and net projects. A world renown lecturer, composer, sound artist and live art performer. He has been giving concerts, workshops and lectures in Europe, North and South America as well as Asia. Author, founder, artistic director, coordinator and cooperator of many international projects: „audio art“ series (1987), Audio Art Festival (1993-), International Workshops for New Music Cracow/Stuttgart (1993-). Internationale Akademie für Neue Komposition und Audio Art in Tirol (1993-), Silent Films with Music Live (1994-), Global Mix (1998-), Art Boat (2000-), GPS-Art (2000-), Ensemble Spiel (2003), Bridges and European Modern Orchestra (2003), Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music (2005-), Integra (2005-2011) Polish Sound Art in China, Chinese Sound Art in Poland (2006-2011), PAFME (2006-), European Course for Musical Composition and Technologies (2006-2008), Festival for Polish Culture in Luxembourg (2008-2010), dizzy kinetics concert tours in South America (2007-). He received Honorable Award of the Polish Composers Union, Award of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, as well as the Independent Project grant of the CEC ArtsLink in New York. Since 2008 he is the Secretary of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (ICEM/CIME). [studiomch.art.pl](http://www.studiomch.art.pl/) / [myspace](http://www.myspace.com/marekcholoniewski) [Youtube: Marek Chołoniewski / DARK& LIGHT / FACE](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acgh9V4OuCA&feature=player_embedded) ##Robert Piotrowicz  Sound artist, composer, improviser. He works on contemporary electroacoustic music field. Piotrowicz is an instrumentalist whose main tools are modular synth and guitar. He's an experienced improviser, working with world's top artists. Composer, author of many solo projects (recordings, performances), interdisciplinary projects (scores for theatre plays, literary and radio projects) and abstract sound installations. He has participated in many art events around the world. Musica Genera label/festival co-founder and curator, and - since 1999 - many other contemporary sound art festivals and projects in Poland and abroad. Piotrowicz is one of the most prolific artists in the Polish experimental and improvised music scene. He develops his own solo projects and also collaborates with world's leading sound artists and musicians. As an instrumentalist, he works mainly with his own live performance setup, developed around his electric guitar and analogue modular synthesiser. He is both an accomplished performer of his own music and experienced improviser in different instrumental configurations wit other artists. His other activities include electro-acoustic studio compositions, composing for theatres, participation in interdisciplinary art projects and sound installation. Piotrowicz has developed his trademark sound of intense dynamics seized in dramatic and balanced form. Several albums with his solo music had been released, the last one so far, "Lasting Clinamen" in 2008, highly acclaimed by the critics around the globe. Robert Piotrowicz as instrumentalist and composer works most often with Anna Zaradny also Burkhard Stangl, Valerio Tricoli. Other collaborators in recent yerars included Oren Ambarchi, Jerome Noetinger, Martin Klapper, XavierCharles, Lasse Marhaug, John Hegre, Tony Buck, Kevin Drumm, and others. [robertpiotrowicz.net](http://www.robertpiotrowicz.net/) / [myspace](http://www.myspace.com/robertpiotrowicz) [Youtube: Robert Piotrowicz All Ears 2010 1/3](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rKebWDw5W7o) [SoundCloud: Robert Piotrowicz - Lincoln Sea: Ice Walk by rurokura](http://soundcloud.com/rurokura/robert-piotrowicz-lincoln-sea) ##Anna Zaradny  Sound and visual artist, composer, instrumentalist, curator. The creativity of Anna Zaradny is expressed through sound and visual art. As a composer and instrumentalist she works in a wide spectrum of genres: from acoustic improvised music with a contemporary minimalist language to the complex structures of experimental electronic music compositions. As a visual artist, Zaradny creates in various media including installations, objects, photography and video. The artist uses abstraction, micro sound and architectonic elements, lights and space. Her pieces are marked by the ambiguity and the relationship between medium and ideas. Zaradny's works have been presented in festivals and exhibitions all over the world, the last ones so far at: SiILBERKUPPE gallery, Berlin, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, What is music? Festival, Sydney, Melbourne, All Ears Festival 2010, Oslo, Unsound Festival 2011 New York. The discography of Anna Zaradny includes solo recordings and collaborative projects with a.o.: Burkhard Stangl, Tony Buck, Robert Piotrowicz, Cor Fuhler. She is also author of music for theatre plays and multimedia projects. She is co-founder and curator of the Musica Genera Festival. She lives and works in Warsaw. [annazaradny.net](http://www.annazaradny.net/) / [myspace](http://www.myspace.com/robertpiotrowicz) [Youtube: Anna Zaradny All Ears 2010 1/2](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p266SZaJNxA) ##Tomasz Krakowiak Known for his unorthodox treatment of idiophones, percussionist Tomasz Krakowiak performed and/or recorded with his principal collaborators Joda Clement, Pau Torres and sound artist Holger Schoorl. His more occasional collaborators have included John Oswald, Kaffe Matthews, CCMC, Alessandro Bosetti, Ute Völker, Phil Minton, Paul Dutton, Gert-Jan Prins, Vic Rawlings. Influenced by experimental and electroacoustic practices, Krakowiak's sounds are explorations of different sonoristic drum qualities his work has been called “splendid overlapping calvacade of tones.”(The Wire), “unique and very, very rich” (Just Outside), and “of entirely different quality and tone” (Brainwashed). Solo or ensemble appearances include: Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, No Music Fest, Audio Art Festival, Musica Genera, Music-in-Galleries. Selected Recordings: "A/P" (Bocian), "La ciutat ets tu" (Etude), "Halcyon Science" (Barnyard Records), "Relay"(Spool) [etuderecords.com](http://www.etuderecords.com/tomasz_krakowiak.php) [SoundCloud: Tomasz Krakowiak/ Chris Strickland/ Pau Torres - 11/20/10 by Eminent Domain](http://soundcloud.com/eminent-domain/krakowiak-strickland-torres-11) ##Ultra Functor  [Atsuhiro Ito Homepage](http://www.gotobai.net/) [miclodiet.com](http://miclodiet.com/) ##Chihei Hatakeyama  Chihei Hatakeyama Is A Sound Artist And Musician Living On The Outskirts Of Tokyo. He Has Performed For Years Under His Given Name And Also As One Half Of The Electroacoustic Duo Opitope, Along With Tomoyoshi Date. Hatakeyama Polychromes Memory-Evoking Soundscapes With Various Recorded Materials Of Electric, Acoustic Instruments Such As Electric Guitars, Vibraphone, And Piano. His Releases Is On Kranky, Room 40, Under The Spire, Hibernate Records, Magic Book Records, Home Nomal, OwnRecords And Spekk (As Opitope).. [chihei.org](http://www.chihei.org/)