On Saturday, April 20, I will take part in a concert from the "aMuz on Radio Gdańsk" series, which will take place as part of the Accordion + Electronics - Blended Intensive Program. Jakub Stefaniak (accordion) will perform two of my pieces from the "Four Sketches for Four Sides of the World" series, i.e. "East" and "North", of course with my accompaniment as an electronics operator. The concert starts at 8:00 p.m. It will be broadcast on Radio Gdańsk, available both in traditional form and on the Internet. The concert will, of course, take place in the Concert Studio. Janusz Hajdun. Admission is by invitation, the organizer asks those interested to contact us by April 18 at wydarzenia@amuz.gda.pl. The number of places is limited. More about this event can be found here: https://www.amuz.gda.pl/wydarzenia/koncert-z-cyklu-amuz-w-radiu-gdansk-w-ramach-accordion-electronics-blended-intensive-programme,2044

At the invitation of the Department of Organ, Harpsichord, Accordion, Guitar, Harp and Instruments of the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk (Elżbieta Rosińska – thank you very much!) I'll take part in the Blended Intensive Program (BIP), an event consisting of lectures, workshops and concerts. It's a program that uses innovative learning and teaching methods, and the main goal is to implement the artistic project "Accordion + Electronics BIP", which will enable students of the Academy of Music and six partner academies to gain practical experience in a unique format. BIP is co-financed by the European Union. As part of the scientific program, on Saturday, April 20, at 3 p.m., in the Senate Hall of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk, I will present a lecture titled "Interaction between a live instrument and the electronic part on the example of accordion music - the sound perception from the points of view of the composer and performers" (the presentation will be in English). On Sunday, April 21, I will conduct workshops on electroacoustic music, addressed to young composers from various countries. I will tell you about my participation in the concert program in a moment in my next post. More information about this event can be found on the website of the Academy of Music. Stanisław Moniuszko in Gdańsk: https://www.amuz.gda.pl/

I received an information that my electroacoustic composition Vanishing Signs on the Sky has been selected for performance during ICMC 2024 (The International Computer Music Conference), which this year will take place from July 7 to July 13, 2024 at the Hanyang University College of Music and its computer music studio, CREAMA (Center for Research in Electro-Acoustic Music and Audio), in cooperation with ICMA (The International Computer Music Association). ICMC is a great festival and scientific conference devoted to computer music, held every year in a different city - and probably the largest event of this type in the world. In recent years, my songs have been chosen quite regularly for this occasion.

I've just received an information that my composition And I Woke up at the Darkest Dawn Ever for baritone and soprano saxophones with tape has been selected to be performed at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF), which will take place this year from June 16 to 23. By the way, this will be the 9th time in a row that my music will be performed during this prestigious event. More information about the festival itself can be found here: https://nycemf.org/  

On Tuesday, March 12, at 7 p.m., we'll play another Open Session at the Artists' Colony, this time with the following lineup: Dariusz Mazurowski, Zofia Esden, Michał Sternik and Szymon Wieczorek. I hope it will be – as usual – very interesting event. Join us on Tuesday, March 12, it's worth coming and listening.

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The Gdańsk Miasto Literatury website, where you can find many interesting texts, has just published a long interview with me, written by Filip Szałasek. Our conversation was mainly about the CD album Metropolis Balticum, with the soundscape of Gdansk, listening to the sounds of the city, field recording, but also more broadly, about electroacoustic music, its creation and perception. I invite you to read it, I hope you will find this material interesting. Unfortunately, the text is only in Polish, but I think you can use an online translator.

https://miastoliteratury.com/aktualnosci/miasto-do-sluchania/

With a slight delay, but finally the new album has already been released and is available as a CD and also in digital form. Metropolis Balticum was released by the Antenna Non Grata label and it's a soundscape of the city of Gdańsk for multichannel projection. Composition, field recordings, mixing, production and mastering – Dariusz Mazurowski, De eM Studio, June - September 2023. All sounds were recorded in the urban spaces of Gdańsk. Realized as part of the Cultural Grant of the City of Gdańsk, awarded in 2023.

https://antennanongrata.bandcamp.com/album/dariusz-mazurowski-metropolis-balticum-urbana-landscape

Later this year, my new CD with the large scale eight part piece Metropolis Balticum will be released by Polish label Antenna Non Grata. This composition is a soundscape of Gdańsk, my hometown and was entirely created from field recordings that I made within the urban space, visiting various locations and searching for intriguing events with musical qualities. Each of the eight parts of the composition consists of multiple phrases layered on top of each other, creating a sonic tapestry. More information on this CD will be posted soon. This project was undertaken as part of the Cultural Grant of the City of Gdańsk, awarded in 2023.