Accordion Solo

Sofie is a composer and violinist from Denmark and a participant of the 5th International Young Composers Academy Ticino. Currently, she is pursuing a master's degree in composition at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with Helena Tulve as her mentor. She is a keen improviser and also a player of traditional music. 

Her Piece is going to be at the 2nd Concert of the Academy on the 29th of July. Stream the Concert through the link:

https://fb.me/e/1acFLDzWq

When writing the piece for the Ictus Ensemble I had the wish to work with substances of sounds. Sound itself being a source of arrival and departure of both the physicality of things and the utopian dream world. The title of the piece “Which seemed, when dreamed, to mean so profoundly much” I found in Sylvia Plath’s poem “The Ghost’s Leavetaking:

“Enter the chilly no man's land of precisely
Five o'clock in the morning, the no-color void
Where the waking head rubbishes out the draggled lot
Of sulfurous dreamscapes and obscure lunar conundrums
Which seemed, when dreamed, to mean so profoundly much”

(Excerpt of the Poem)

photographer: Agita Reķe

Sofie Meyer (Denmark - Estonia 1991): Which Seemed When Dreamed To Mean So Profoundly Much

Hans Abrahamsen - Air I

Hans Abrahamsen - Air III

I. Brel-Bach
II. Sololique
III. Asia-Flashes

Franck Angelis - Concert Suite

Felix Mendelssohn - Chorale and Variations

Paweł Malinowski 
And it rose and it fell and pulsed like a wave (2019/20)
for viola, accordion and electronics with optional video
written for Duo Van Vliet

performed by Duo Van Vliet:
Rafał Łuc – accordion
Rafał Zalech - viola (guest)

recorded at Wro Art Center in Wrocław, Poland
Sound engineer - Jacek Sotomski

And it rose and it fell and pulsed like a wave

Body X Ultra - Glass Edition for chamber orchestra, unique glass instruments and audio playback  (2024)

Performers:
Soundcheck - New Music Ensemble
Maciej Koczur - conductor
Łukasz Myszyński - audio recording and mastering
Kalina Bańka-Kulka - glass instruments
Musica Polonica Nova, NFM, Wroclaw, 14.04.2024



Body X Ultra - Glass Edition

Epitafium pamięci Andrzeja Krzanowskiego (1991). Nagranie zrealizowano 25.10.2024 r. w Sali Koncertowej Akademii Muzycznej im. Karola Lipińskiego we Wrocławiu. 
Zrealizowano w ramach Stypendium Artystycznego Prezydenta Wrocławia. 
Rafał Łuc - akordeon
Mix, mastering - Marcin Bortnowski
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Epitaph in memory of Andrzej Krzanowski (1991). Recorded on 25.10.2024 in the Concert Hall of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław.

Recorded as part of the Artistic Scholarship of the President of Wrocław.

Rafał Łuc - accordion
Mix, mastering - Marcin Bortnowski

www.rafalluc.com
www.bortnowski.pl


Epitafium pamięci Andrzeja Krzanowskiego

aer for bass clarinet/clarinet solo and ensemble
Performers:
Robert Stefański – bass clarinet/clarinet solo
Szymon Bywalec – conductor
New Music Orchestra/Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej

Warszawska Jesień 2015

aer (2015)

In this piece I try to touch the audience in a literal way - not only with sounds of instruments hidden-under-dense-tape, but also with 20 fans (ventilators). As the piece evolves the fans become more and more present, creating a perception-tickling balance of aerial sound qualities with real air. 
By this piece I also relate to a whole genre of XX-c. new music pieces focusing on “air”, including compositions by Lachenman, Berio, Takemitsu, Holliger. The tape is constructed with convoluted and granulated recordings of aforementioned pieces with actual wind recordings or/and recordings of instruments and human body.

Another Air for ensemble Kompopolex and 20 fans(ventilators), 2017

Commissioned by Duo Van Vliet, premiered at 2018 St Magnus Festival, Orkney

The Sound of Waves

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Please, listen on headphones!
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Bol for flute, percussion, accordion, electronics and video.

Kompopolex Ensemble:
Konrad Fiszer - fl
Aleksandra Gołaj - perc
Rafał Łuc - acc
Jacek Sotomski - electronics

Recorded on May 22nd, 2017 at POSTLOOKBOOK concert during Musica Electronica Nova 2017 Festival

Cut Story for accordion solo by Polish composer - Adam Porębski (1990*). Piece written and dedicated to Rafał Łuc. World premiere took place on the 21.04.2012 during Musica Polonica Nova Festival.

Adam Porębski - Cut Story

Najnowsza kameralna płyta Rafała Łuca z utworami Cezarego Duchnowskiego. Album zawiera 5 kompozycji z okresu 2011-2019, które zostały nagrane i wydane po raz pierwszy. Akordeoniście towarzyszą znakomici muzycy: Joanna Freszel - sopran, Magdalena Bojanowicz-Koziak - wiolonczela, Miłosz Pękala - perkusja oraz partner Rafała z Duo van Vliet - altowiolista Ian Anderson.
Za warstwę elektroniki odpowiada sam kompozytor, który wraz z Ewą Guziołek-Tubelewicz współrealizował nagrania.

 „Permanentne zmiany są treścią naszej rzeczywistości. Im bardziej niepostrzeżenie zmieniają się nasz światopogląd, hierarchia wartości czy gusta, tym mniej złożona, niż jest w rzeczywistości, wydaje się ścieżka przemiany”. Cezary Duchnowski

Text Elfriede Jelinek | translation Karolina Bikont for any melodic instrument, any harmonic instrument, percussion and electronics, without video 2018

Rafał Łuc "cROSSFAdE" – The Rage

starring: 

i make limbo - synths
endy yden - piano

[PL]
Utwór powstał w ramach cyklu improwizowanych miniatur na czas pandemii.

[ENG]
This piece was created as part of a series of improvised miniatures for the time of pandemic.

© 2020 ENDY YDEN

04_julianne feat. i make limbo

"Dualabilis I" for two accordions and electronics (2019)

Performed by:
Maciej Frąckiewicz - accordion, Rafał Łuc - accordion, Paweł Hendrich - electronics

Recording: Ewa Guziołek-Tubulewicz
Mix: Paweł Hendrich
Mastering: Katarzyna Rakowiecka-Rojsza

Latin 'dualis' — 'twin' from duo — 'two', 
late Latin 'labilis' — 'wavering, impermanent, temporal’. 

The word "dualism" has many meanings. In philosophy, it is the idea that certain wholes are created out of two irreducible, incompatible or complimentary components. In physics, dualism most often refers to the twin nature of quantum objects, such as photons and electrons. Meanwhile, in ontology dualism represents the body and soul, and in theology - good and evil.

In the composition titled Dualabilis dualism is found in the relation between the acoustic layer and electronics, between composition and improvisation, and often also between musicians and their instruments which either compete with or complement each other. The musical material is also juxtaposed in terms of separateness and independence, or else complementarity. It is not only the content of the composition, which contains dualistic aspects. Its form is also divided into sections, which are polarised between each other — being opposed to each other as separate sound phenomena shaped in accordance with diverse types of narration. 

The second section of the title refers to the idea of instability, changeability, the shift towards extreme states. In this composition most of the phenomena evolves or else suddenly transforms and shifts into new and often extremely different states (dynamic, agogic, textured, timbral).

Dualabilis I (2019)

I play all sorts of music on my accordion in different places in the world.

Epitafium pamięci Andrzeja Krzanowskiego

Rafał Łuc

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