Raphael Cendo - Scratch Data

Please, put the volume really up from the very beginning :)

Salvatore Sciarrino - Il legno e la parola

Recorded at the Concert Hall of the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen 2014
Sound engineer: Franziska Wackerhagen

Per Nørgård - I Ching, mvt. 4: Towards Completion, Fire over Water

Music: Wnuk-Lazar Duo
Aleksander Wnuk, Kaossilator
Michał Lazar, midi-guitar
"All just fine, even today" is a reference to the states of a man in a situation where he has no influence on the the occurring phenomenon. We are touching the nature of inevitability, danger and anxiety of a catastrophe.
Kraków [PL], July 2020
Supported by KBF (Cracow Festival Agency)within the program Partnership for Music 2.0 (Partnerstwo dla muzyki 2.0).

All just fine, even today

The “Hibernation” project is a creative process focused on updating and activating the artistic tools of the multipercussionist, and as a result a set of miniatures for the KAOSSILATOR synthesizer. The assumption was to create an own workshop for independent work, on the one hand being a compensation for instrumental activities impossible under the lockdown circumstances, and on the other a place of personal, post-percussive exploration. This formula spontaneously led to an effect that is not entirely "serious". I present "Hibernation Miniatures".
Accomplished within the scholarship program of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland - Culture Online. 2020

Przedsięwzięcie “Hibernacja” to proces twórczy skoncentrowany na aktualizacji i aktywizacji środków artystycznych multiperkusisty, a w efekcie zestaw miniatur na syntezator KAOSSILATOR. Założeniem było stworzenie sobie warsztatu pracy samodzielnej, z jednej strony będącego kompensacją niemożliwych w warunkach zamknięcia działań instrumentalnych, a z drugiej miejscem osobistych, post-perkusyjnych poszukiwań. Ta formuła w spontaniczny sposób doprowadziła do efektu niezupełnie „na poważnie”. Przedstawiam „Miniatury hibernacyjne”.
Zrealizowano w ramach programu stypendialnego Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego – Kultura w sieci. 2020

H 4 Outro

H Intro

One of the tracks from the album LUPNIK by multipercussionist Aleksander Wnuk

Aleksander Wnuk
music, concept, production, instruments and objects

lupnik /lupɲik/ — man-magnifier, intimately fixing his senses on an infinitely small space

The music of Lupnik is designed for, and performed on, a specially arranged set of objects, instruments and hardware. Elementary sounds are being produced and processed through percussive and post-percussive practices, and then enhanced using a mixer, which turns out to be one more instrument; the ‘saturation’ becomes one of the constituents of the soundscape. The basic idea for the material and the ways of using it was inspired by the sensual features of Matter Painting.
In this context, the word ‘Lupnik’ is to be seen as newspeak, a lexical play engaged in for the purposes of this particular project. The concept of fixing one’s senses intimately—and so acting as a man-magnifier—deals with physical experience; it’s about being entangled in tangible details of sound, on my part as well as on that of the listener.

This music is intended for neither laptop nor smartphone speakers. For optimum experience, use hi-fi speakers or headphones.

Daniel ‘Ziółek’ Bigaj
record, mix and master

Paweł Krzywdziak
artwork and layout

Recorded and mixed at MCDiS Studios, July-November 2020

Opus Series / Requiem Records opus-series.com 53|2021

℗© 2021 Aleksander Wnuk

Supported by the Creative Scholarship of the City of Kraków 2020 and ZAiKS

More at:
aleksanderwnuk.com/projects/lupnik/
opus-series.com/index.php?lang=pl&p=sklep&f=&c=&t=&st=&o=&pid=85&page=0

LUPNIK II

Multi-percussionist, performer, sound artist and PhD in Arts.
He specializes in performing Contemporary Music, as a soloist and chamber musician. His interests mostly revolve around multi-percussion and intermedia genres. His activity includes free improvisation, composing and performing music for dramatic and dance theatre, film and own sound projects, and also traditional music, free rock and Ambient.

Aleksander Wnuk

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