"Stone Gong Melodies" is a unique composition performed on the world's first Stone Gong with two gongs, each having three distinct sounds. The piece beautifully presents their individual tones and harmonious interplay, offering an enchanting and captivating musical experience. They are built in a triangular shape with three resonators.
Composition Dominik Dolega

Stein Gongs

Wind 2023, Lithophon Solo Dominik Dolega
Composing, Mastering DD
www.dominikdolega.net

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Dominik Dolega, born in 1979 in Cracow, studied classical and orchestral percussion under Jan Pilch at the Academy of Music in Cracow and contemporary percussion and improvisation under Christian Dierstein and Walter Fähendrich in Music Academy in Basel, Switzerland.

Compositions
Dominik Dolega’s compositions are a unique collage of sounds including elements of experimental and electroacoustic music, inspired by the contemporary classical music trends.
2021 – premiere of the chamber composition “Mosaic” with electronics, performed with the immigrants from Africa.

Direction and production
In 2016-2021, he developed and led a concert series in Neuestheater in Dornach, presenting a variety of projects connecting music with visual arts, performance, electronics, and acoustics. In an additional, educational project, children and youth joined professional musicians to perform on the stage.
Dominik Dolega is composing conceptual music installations for the outdoor locations and meaningful architectural objects, combining improvisation and composition.

Instrumentalist
As instrumentalist he specializes in using lithophones, prototypes of stone instruments mixed with classical percussion instruments and idiophones.

Orchestral musician
The artist works with leading Swiss and Polish orchestras, including Basler Sinfonieorchester, Basler Kammerorchester, Basel Sinfonietta, der Musical Theater Basel, the Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic in Cracow, Freiburger Barockorchester.

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