Bydgoskie Studio Eksperymentu
Program Bydgoskiego Studio Eksperymentu
curator Peter Śiwiński
parcitipates
Sławek Janicki
Peter Śiwiński
Free Monoid
26th July 2024 | 9:00 PM
MÓZG, ul. Parkowa 2
I am thrilled to announce an extraordinary event as part of The Bydgoszcz Experiment Studio project, set to take place at the iconic Mózg Club on July 25 and 26, 2024. This event, deeply rooted in the tradition of BSE, will bring together local and international talents in a unique fusion of sound, music, and interdisciplinary arts. The Bydgoszcz Experiment Studio Event promises to be a ground-breaking exploration of auditory creativity, where sound becomes the central element of artistic expression. Over two days, we will embark on a journey that transcends conventional boundaries, embracing unlimited sound and musical activities, as well as interdisciplinary endeavours, where sound plays a pivotal role.
Event Highlights:
Day 1: July 25, 2024
On the first day, I will take on dual roles as both the curator and the artist, collaborating with two remarkable musicians: Sławek Janicki: Renowned for his mastery of acoustic instruments, Sławek will bring the organic, raw sounds that will serve as the foundation of our project. Free Monoid: A visionary in the realm of modular and analog sound production, Free Monoid will manipulate and transform Sławek’s acoustic sounds using an array of cutting-edge equipment, creating an unparalleled auditory experience.
The day will begin with an introduction and setup, followed by intensive sound collection sessions. Sławek Janicki's acoustic performances will be captured and ingeniously processed by Free Monoid. My role will be to oversee the integration and recording of these sounds, blending them into a cohesive musical session that sets the stage for our final composition.
Day 2: July 26, 2024
The second day will focus on engaging the community and fostering creative collaboration through a hands-on workshop. Participants will join me in inventing and performing a diverse range of sounds, sequences, basslines, and music structures. This interactive workshop will allow participants to directly influence the creation process, contributing to the development of our final piece. The day will culminate in a live presentation of the resulting work, where the combined efforts of all involved will be showcased in a grand finale. This performance will offer an immersive experience, highlighting the unique sounds and compositions crafted during the event.
Audio-visual Documentation
Throughout both days, our activities will be meticulously documented, capturing the essence of the creative process. Interviews with the artists and participants will provide deeper insights into their experiences, and the footage will be edited into a comprehensive film. This documentary will serve as both a record of our project and an inspiring testament to the power of collaborative artistic endeavours.
Join Us
We invite you to be a part of this transformative event, whether as a participant in our workshop or as an audience member during the live presentation. Your presence and engagement will be integral to the success of this project, and we look forward to sharing this unique artistic journey with you.
Peter Śliwiński
Peter Śliwiński curator is a Polish-Canadian composer, producer, performer, DJ, certified trainer and coach.
Peter's sonic journey is marked by influential releases that have graced over a hundred releases, including labels such as Soleil, Synewave, Infrastructure, Ostgut Ton, Sonic Groove, ARTS and Soma, to name a few. His sound echoed across all continents, setting dance floors on fire from Europe to Asia to the Americas. Peter's live acts are a dynamic mix of electronic music that honors techno's legacy while looking to its future. Peter claims that he heard electronic music for the first time probably right after his birth, in a hospital near Warsaw. It was then that his deep bond with the species began. Hearing the signals! heartbeat, pulse, all the machines were going crazy when, after a difficult delivery, doctors gave him 12 hours to live. Fortunately, his big heart was beating and allowed him to survive. This great heart is still present today through his music.
MoreAs a young boy living behind the Iron Curtain, it was not easy to obtain imported music, so one of his first records was a Polish record that his father brought him. It was "E=mc2" by Marek Biliński from 1984, Peter was 9 years old then. He was curious and intrigued by this music-like computer game, which he also heard on his Atari 800XL in elementary school, watching nature programs during classes and watching "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Tron" and "Star Wars" on VHS tapes. Peter's first passions were vinyl records, sci-fi movies, computers, and technology, and that's still the case today.
Peter left Poland around the time of the fall of the Iron Curtain, the techno rave scene was exploding, and Peter was truly about to find himself in the middle of a cyclone. The next stop on his journey was Italy. While listening to local underground radio shows hosted by DJs Francesco Zappala and Fabrizio Cuchetti, and participating in local raves, he was captivated by the sounds of Hip house, early Detroit and techno rave from Italy, the Benelux countries and Europe.
Shortly after that, at the age of 13, Peter, in quite a spectacular way, became a resident of one of the rave venues near Rome. Buying techno vinyl has become a habit. After 2 years he landed in Windsor (near Detroit) and continued his deeper exploration of techno sounds, listening to WMXD - Electrifying Mojo radio in Detroit, discovering the Music Institute in Detroit, and attending parties, but more as an observer than a partygoer. The sounds coming from Detroit, Chicago, New York and even Windsor were already quite familiar to him, through the music he had already played during his residency in Italy. Watching the artists behind these releases play and perform was truly inspiring and Peter wanted to understand how to create his own music.
Reaching this knowledge was not as easy as today ABC - click on me, type of access. It took years to figure this out. While living in Windsor, Peter experienced techno through many sources such as radio, house parties, raves, clubs and even television. New Dance performances in Detroit and Electric Circus in Toronto, Canada quickly became new musical discoveries. After moving to the west coast of Canada, he found himself in the middle of a completely different style of music, deep electronica from San Francisco and techno ambient coming from Vancouver from artists such as Adam Shaik and Off and Gone. Peter soon became part of the scene and slowly but surely began to shape what would become his signature sound during his first sonic experiments in the school's electronic music studio at Port Moody High School.
Electronic, techno and ambient music began to be the main language expressing Peter's inner universe, and he spent more and more time in the school studio, learning on his own about analog equipment, sequencing, sampling and sound processing. While others partied on the weekend, he locked himself in the school studio and recorded many hours of music on cassette or ADAT and put together the first mixes of his live performances using a Korg Sampling Delay, a Roland Synth JX8P with a PG 800 programmer. After building his own home studio and collecting various instruments off the coast of Canada and the USA, he worked on his live act and started performing live. First as DJ VC, Plasmik Muv, Blue Room, Les Autres Circuites, and later as Echoplex. He was soon a resident at Up Above, the World, Graceland and The Twilight Zone at Gas Town Vancouver, and was a frequent guest DJ on DJ Noah's Home Base radio shows on CITR Radio.
Peter started visiting Europe, playing concerts in Poland. He was undoubtedly one of the first true live techno performers to play live across the country, traveling with a Yamaha 24-channel mixing console, an EMU Sp1200 sampler, and Roland TR909 and TR 808 drum machines. Eventually, after completing a Master of sound design course in Canada, In 1998 he returned to Poland. It was then that the Echoplex sound came to prominence, followed by a string of releases on labels such as Black Nation, Mechanism Industries, Cetron, Speaker Attack, Sonic Mind, End to End, LL and appearances on compilations by Ritchie Hawtin, DJ Cajmere, Fumiya Tanaka and many more other. Through projects, alter egos and collaborations, Peter has also licensed his music to Nova Mute, M_nus, Kanzleramt, Missile, Torema, Technique, Solo Action, Abiotic, G-force, Hertz, Mosquito, Mutter, Semi-Automatic and Tresor.
Peter began releasing records on the Synewave label, including the joint Niteworks project with Damon Wild. He soon launched his own label, Soleil Records, starting with his self-titled EP The World Energy and touring internationally to major venues in Europe, Japan, Australia and America. After a special invitation, he performed live both during the Ostgut Ton Label showcase at the Glasgow School of Arts and during the label's showcases in Berghain in Berlin, as well as numerous festivals such as Awakenings, Creamfields, DEMF and others.
Peter wanted to push his sound to the limits. After recording many albums in the Detroit techno and electro style, he wanted to return to his early experiences with EBM, industrial, and experimental music of Polish radio. In 2015, his album Post Scriptum 01 was unexpectedly released. Initially strategically planned for legendary Detroit producer Jeff Mills' Mission 6677 label, Post Scriptum 01 was released by another legend Dave Function's Infrastructure New York.
Initially, Post Scriptum was a secret project, created under the pressure of exclusivity requirements imposed on Peter by one of the German producers from Berlin. However, faith in this project was restored when Peter performed at the Ostgut Ton Showcase with Dave Function and Marcel Dettmann. Dave did not hesitate to sign Peter's album, which soon became one of the best techno albums of 2015, recognized by respected media.
Peter gave the project a fresh nuclear sound and Function incorporated it into his Berghain 07 mix, impressed by this subtle futuristic, artistic, tactfully produced and detailed electronic music. Peter perfected his sound, releasing in Ostgut Ton, Infrastructure alongside such industrial luminaries as Rrose, Silent Servant and Vatican Shadow. In a short time, this project took Peter to the next level, where during the tour he performed live at Berghain in Berlin, the 10th edition of the Audioriver festival in Plock, the cultivated Atonal Festival in Berlin, Reaktor in Amsterdam, and also played in top clubs around the world.
2017 saw an even bolder move towards heavy bass noise and more surprising songwriting structures with the Until You Drop EP, released on Adam X's legendary Sonic Groove label. In addition to the above-mentioned labels, Post Scriptum's tracks have so far been released on such labels such as: Synewave, Animal Farm, K7, Dekmantel, International Day Off, Subtstratum, RYC, Groove Magazine and XLR8R.
Despite being highly underrated in his native Poland, Peter has achieved a milestone that makes him stand out in the electronic music scene. To date, he has performed at the iconic Berghain an extraordinary nine times. This is a feat achieved only by a select few producers who are not residents of this legendary club. Peter has the honor of being the only Polish artist who can boast of such a prestigious achievement, thus strengthening his status as a pioneer in the world of techno.
In 2024, Peter will once again revolutionize the techno landscape. Using his electrifying energy as a professional and certified trainer and coach, he launches "People Make Techno". This innovative initiative aims to bring his extensive skills and knowledge to the next generation of electronic music artists around the world, offering an interactive and creative learning experience like no other.
Soleil Records, a cornerstone of his legacy, recently celebrated its rebirth with the release of Echoplex's new EP - The Light Strike, which marks the 22nd entry in its catalog. With upcoming releases on Soleil and a special live performance by Post Scriptum at Muse Festival 2024, the future promises an even more dynamic chapter. Peter intends to explore uncharted territories of the world of electronic music, bringing to life his visionary projects such as Dark as you like or the enigmatic DC Project together with Adam Szlachta aka Free Monoid. Also cooperating with the Mozg club in Bydgoszcz, performing at special events. Combining an unwavering love and passion for timeless experimental music that pushes boundaries and ignites the audience's imagination.
Sławek Janicki is a musician, filmmaker, creator of artistic activities. He started his activity in the mid-1980s by being part of artistic movements that were active between Gdańsk and Bydgoszcz. He co-created the so-called Yass Scene, which was based in the legendary Mózg club in Bydgoszcz, founded in 1994, which is still run by Janicki.
For over 30 years he has been active on the international improvised music scene, giving concerts in Europe and Australia. As a musician, he remains completely committed to absolute improvisation, considering it to be the purest form of music creation. He has performed with an incalculable number of artists from the Polish and international scene of improvisation.
He has made recordings released on cd's and vinyls with the following musicians: R. Mitchell, P. Brotzmann, M. Feldman, S. Namtchylak, N. de Heney, J. Mazzoll, K. Uchihashi, N. Hein, S. Couvoisier , Q. Janicki, F. Frith, T. Kondo, T. Gwinciński, J. Buhl, K. Staszewski, J. Zdunek, M. Zieliński, Ł. Jędrzejczak, A. Maćkowiak, Z. Piernik.
Free Monoid is a musical explorer, improviser, guitarist. Having been raised on music from the 90-ties, he remains with the indelible sentiment for the aesthetics of those years. In his youth, he was a fan of heavy metal sounds and energetic guitar riffs. In the mid-2000s, he gained stage experience as a guitarist in the progressive band Goblin Market. Over time, feeling exploited by hard rock sounds, on one hand, he developed a fascination with jazz, however, on the other hand, he also developed an interest in electronic music in various genres: drum'n'bass, dubstep, psytrance, and techno, to which he remains faithful to this day. He is fascinated by what is sublime, elusive and hypnotic in music. Absorbed by the unlimited possibilities of creating new sounds, he mainly devotes himself to improvisation, occasionally supporting Post Scriptum in joint projects, both studio and stage.
curator: Piotr Grygor
parcitipates:
Ryuzo Fukuhara
Jacek Buhl
Piotr Grygor
2nd August 2024 | 9:00 PM
MÓZG, ul. Parkowa 2
Audiovisual biofeedback performance for a dancer and instrumentalists. The dancer's brainwaves, translated in real-time into sound and animations, create the structure of the performance and provide material for improvisation. Simultaneously, the instrumentalists' gestures supply new stimuli for the dancer, which are directly reflected in the graphic and sound forms generated from the dancer's EEG. This results in an open form with multiple feedback loops between the participants.
Piotr Grygor curator is an audiovisual artist and an academic teacher. Engaged in generative, algorithmic art, audio performance, and improvised music. Grygor translates life processes of organisms into sounds and images, creates music with plants, insects and paints with brainwaves. He has developed a concept of bionic audiovisual improvisation—open, reactive environments, inspired by natural habitats or processes. He explores various techniques of video and audio synthesis. In his performances, he very often uses analog electronics, enabling complex, unique behaviors and a constant influx of generative and reactive audiovisual forms. He is an initiator, participant, and curator of interdisciplinary activities, integrating image, sound, movement, improvisation, and interaction. Grygor is the author of performances and workshops based on transpositions of life processes of organisms into sound and image, such as "Sounds of Plants" and "Concerts for Brainwaves". He is associated with the improvised and electronic music scene of MOZG Art Centre in Bydgoszcz.
Ryuzo Fukuhara was born in 1965 in Japan, he graduated from the Nagoya University of Arts in Japan in 1989, where he majored in Experimental Design. During his studies he began to dance with two important Butoh dancers, Semi-Maru from Sankaijuku and Min Tanaka, from whom he learned his Butoh technique. In 2000 he started to work as a dance artist in Europe. During his residency in Europe, Ryuzo developed his own dance method and in 2006 he was awarded the 2nd prize at the solo dance contest in 11MASDANZA – the International Contemporary Dance Festival in the Canary Islands, Spain. In 2010 he was invited to teach a dance master class at Arsenale della Danza at La Biennale di Venezia in Italy. In 2016, he was invited as a guest lecturer at the post graduate theatre course and dance master class in Towson University, USA. Ryuzo has been teaching Butoh dance at the faculty of Arts in the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia since 2013.
Jacek Buhl is a drummer associated with the Bydgoszcz–based club Mózg. Currently, his playing follows two directions: on one hand, trance-like, repetitive rhythms inspired by "Riddim: Claves of African Origin" by Billy Martin, African club music or the Lisbon label Principe, and on the other hand, collective, free improvisation in the spirit of Tony Oxley, Paul Lovens, or Toshi Tsuchitori. Jacek Buhl began playing drums in the band Variete and then recorded and performed in several significant ensembles of the jazz and post-jazz scene, including Trytony, Syfon, The Cyclist, and Spejs. His current most important ensembles are IIALAIMEDAII, the trio Jachna/Mazurkiewicz/Buhl, KWARTET (Mełech, Królikowski, Majewski, Buhl), and duos: a drum duo with Piotr Dąbrowski and an electroacoustic duo with Piotr Grygor.
curator: Agnieszka Bykowska
parcitipates:
Alessandra Novaga
Tomasz Sroczyński
Agnieszka Bykowska
16th August 2024 | 9:00 PM
MÓZG, ul. Parkowa 2
Agnieszka Bykowska curator is a Polish sound artist, composer and producer, performing mostly under the moniker Dawno Temu. In her work, she balances the notion of time and space with creating minimalist drone sonic sceneries founded on a very limited synthesizer which is setup with elements of electroacoustic sounds. Between years 2013-2022 she lived in Bydgoszcz, where she crossed paths with poetry and the improv scene. In 2021 she released her debut album "Automatic Reply" (Jvdasz Iskariota Rec.), and in 2024 followed up with the release of "SACRALIA" (Pointless Geometry). Performed across Poland, including appearances on festivals. Her main sources of inspiration are spirituality and emotional corners of human nature.
Alessandra Novaga is a guitarist and composer. For years she has been exploring the possible territories in which her instrument can lead her. Having graduated from the Musik Akademie in Basel, she managed to cross the classical territories that she was training, all while reaching impalpable abstractions without placing limits on one or the other.
The sound, the meanings, the encounters and the narratives are the elements that guide her. In addition to her solo projects, her collaborations currently see her often playing with Stefano Pilia, and with the trio of which she is a co-founder, alongside Nicola Ratti and Enrico Malatesta - What We do When in Silence. In recent years she has collaborated with Loren Connors, Elliott Sharp, Adrian Utley, Sandro Mussida, Kid Millions, Object Collection, Patrizia Oliva, and Elena Kakaliagou. She has played in festivals such as Donaueschinger Musiktage (DE), Himera Festivaali (FN), Angelica (Bologna) Festival dei Due Mondi (Spoleto), Cafè OTO (London) and ISSUE Project Room (New York). Her works were published in Die Schachtel, Blume, Coherent States, Setola di Maiale, Long Song, among others. She composes for the theater, collaborating with Elena Russo Arman (Teatro dell'Elfo), Phoebe Zeigeist, Nicola Russo, and with Invisibile Kollettivo
instagram.com/alessandra_novaga
Tomasz Sroczyński is a Polish producer and instrumentalist, performing on the level of contemporary, folk and electronic music. One of the important elements of his form of playing is improvisation. As a violinist, he is able to replace a large chamber composition, by creating unlimited and unpredictable sound walls using a harmonizer and a number of appropriate effects. He is a member of the Marek Pospieszalski Octet. In February 2013 his album "A GIRL WITH NO HEART" was released, which was recorded with the vocalist Ewa Prus; it was released under the wings of Jacek Sienkiewicz, a highly regarded label - Recognition Records. In the same year, alongside Jerzy Mazzoll, he released the album "Rite Of Spring Variation" (Requiem Records). A year later, the album "BARENESS" was released together with the saxophonist Marek Pospieszalski, appearing on behalf of the same label. In 2016 he created a free jazz trio with Max Mucha and Szymon Gąsiorek called "PRIMAL" (For Tune). In 2017 he released his first Symphony for violin and a sampler "Resurrecition", and in 2018 he returned from "Ajulella" to Recogniton.
curator: Krzysztof Ostrowski
parcitipates:
Mateusz Wysocki
AGF
Krzysztof Ostrowski
26th September 2024 | 8:00 PM
MÓZG, ul. Parkowa 2
As curator of the event, I decided to invite my long-time musical partner Mateusz Wysocki, with whom we are active under the IFS banner. After the collaborations undertaken with national rappers such as Kosi, Prykson Fisk, Bryndal and Ñemy, and the album recorded with the Japanese MA, who uses the whole spectrum of avant-garde techniques, it was a logical move to go in the direction of further exploring the possibilities of the human voice and discovering its new registers. During one of the conversations with REIFSMA's publisher, Paweł Dunajko, the idea of inviting Antye Greie-Ripatti, an artist known for her very broad spectrum of interests, moving both in the field of modern electronics and sound poetry, to the project came up. Participation in the Bydgoszcz Experiment Studio will be the beginning of the preparation of joint sound material for us, which will finally take the form of an album.
Krzysztof Ostrowski
Krzysztof “Freeze” Ostrowski curatoris a musician, instrumentalist and producer from Bydgoszcz, most often associated with the widely known electronic scene. His artistic activity is influenced by a multitude of experiences connected to sound: music education, years of creating electronic music, or working in a brass band as a sound engineer. He performs solo, but also can be seen to be a part of the audiovisual duo SSM (with the visual artist Tom Skof), as well as in various other configurations often associated with the Bydgoszcz-styled alternative originating in the Mózg club. In 2018, alongside Kuba Ziołek, he brought to life the Clinamen duo that debuted with the album "The tropism of spring" in the autumn of 2020. Together with Mateusz Wysocki (Fischerle) they create the IFS duo, which, in 2023 released the album "REIFSMA", which was recorded together with MA, an avant-garde rapper from Tokyo.
His album was selected for:
one of the albums of the year in the Nokturn broadcast (Krzysztof Dziuba, Dwójka),
one of the tapes of the year according to The Quietus magazine (Daryl Worthington),
one of the electronic albums of the year according to Bandcamp.
In addition, The Quietus (Jakub Knera) included Yaksog on the list of the 75 most interesting songs of 2023.
Fischerle (Mateusz Wysocki)is an artist who has been breaking genre frameworks for many years and has been creating his own multi-layered sounds from them. Apart from his activities as a publisher in Pawlacz Perski, he is mainly known for his productions as Fischerle, but he has also co-founded several organizations: IFS (with Krzysztof Ostrowski), Mech (with Michał Wolski), Porcje Rosołowe (with Lech Nienartowicz), and Bouchons d'Oreilles ( with Łukasz Kacperczyk). His music has been released by countless Polish labels such as: Outlines, U Know Me, Astral Spirits, Paralaxe Editions, Crónica, U-Cover, Qunabu, Idioms, Spring Break Tapes, Wounded Knife, Where To Now?, Monotype Records, Skull Records, Pointless Geometry. Fischerle productions are graphic constructs flowing in detail, shimmering with many features, immersed in massive spatial basses, and show extraordinary imagination and multi-level, complicated architecture.
AGF, Antye Greie-Ripatti is an internationally recognised transmedia artist based in Hailuoto. Her artistic focus is on language, sound, listening and politics. Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF) is an audio sculptress - she weaves deconstructed language, field recordings, low frequencies, disembodied voices, interwoven a-rhythmical patterns, to create dense feminist sonic technologies. She is also a composer, sound artist & curator/facilitator of sound art, music producer, intersectional feminist networker & poem-writer.
Her first poetry book includes 30 poems compiled from her poem-newsletter randomly translated into 5 languages - in the real writer’s fashion. She published more than 30 long form records, countless mixed media projects and organizes sound interventions with other artists around the globe. AGF initiated rec-on.org and lectures around sound facilitation.
AGF has received the ars electronica award twice, including a grand prix. She converts poetry into electronic music, calligraphy and digital media, presented on records, live performances and soundinstallations, in museums, auditoriums, theaters, concert halls and clubs around the world. 30+ record releases under her belt.
About
The Bydgoszcz Experiment Studio project involves the creation and implementation of a series regular events whose main goal is to build a platform for innovative and uncompromising creative activities, independent of financial and economic conditions.
BSE has been carried out in the Mózg club for many years and is a workshop space for local artists who meet regularly, also inviting domestic and foreign artists to cooperate. This year, BSE was included in the list of projects thanks to which Bydgoszcz was included on the UNESCO list as a City of Music, which will provide an opportunity to develop the idea of the experiment.
The project will include unlimited sound/musical activities stylistic and interdisciplinary activities in which sound plays a key role.
The BSE program is created as follows: The author of the project, Sławek Janicki, invited to cooperation of three curators: Piotr Grygor, Agnieszka Bykowska, Krzysztof Ostrowski. The curators create four, two-day events to which they invite Polish and foreign. Under the supervision of a curator, artists create a new, interdisciplinary work.
The artists' work is audiovisually documented, and a film is created after each meeting presenting the artists and showing the creation process.
On the second day, each part project, a public presentation of the resulting work takes place.
4 presentations of this year's project are scheduled for: July 26, August 2, August 16, September 26.
The Bydgoszcz Experiment Studio is part of The Platform of Newly Created Transgressive Sounds project, included in the City of Bydgoszcz application as part of applying for entry into the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.
The project is implemented with funds from the Bydgoszcz UNESCO City of Music program.