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Maciej Sledziecki - Kopplungen

Kopplungen by Maciej Sledziecki

4...according to our on Thu 13 May, 2010.

Satelita's a new label for us and they seem to do some proper tidy stuff based on the bits we've got. My favourite of the bunch is this little lad, a recording of a cross-media project in which the data from an installation by LAb[au]/Brussels (replicated on the sleeve in Max/MSP fashion) was used to control an organ at Kunst-Station St. Peter. The result is an excellent set of abstract improvisations that are all the more intriguing for the fact that the human compositional input came so far back in the process... It's making me imagine a malfunctioning robotic Hermann Nitsch dressed as the Phantom of the Opera prodding away in an empty bombed-out city. Which is obviously a WELL good thing to be imagining.

Cologne-based composer/guitarist Maciej Sledziecki studied guitar in The Netherlands and composition by Siegfried Koepf in Cologne/ Germany. He deals with traditional and contemporary music, develops computer-based composition-methods and invents extended techniques on the guitar. His works contain various compositions for cinema, radioplay, improvised music and workshops.

He plays guitar in the elektroacoustic duo PIRX with Marion Wörle, and the free-improv trio facet with Adrian Myhr(NO)/ db and Joris Ruhl(FR)/ cl, bcl.

He curates the concertseries NACHTJOURNAL in Cologne and is a co-founder ofPlatform for Adventurous Music - ZAM e.V. , where he is developing different projects.

2007 he was artistic director of the festival computer. music. instrument at the MusikTriennaleKöln, and 2008 he lead the ZAM-lab Vol#3: game-theory.

With the help from ON - Neue Musik Köln the composition KOPPLUNGEN was realized in 2010, which uses data from the installation f5x5x5 by LAb[au]/Brussels to control the organ at Kunst-Station StPeter. Different translation mechanisms generate diverse degrees of synchronisation between sound, light and movement.

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