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"Acousmatic Music," Featuring Music by Marcin Stańczyk, is Released by ANAKLASIS

May. 01, 2021

"Acousmatic Music," Featuring Music by Marcin Stańczyk, is Released by ANAKLASIS

Composer Marcin Stańczyk notes, "Music is normally supposed to be listened to. Still, it also flows through our other senses. Is it, therefore connected with them in a necessary and inseparable manner? After all, we can close our eyes, open up our imagination, and let unexpected experiences flow through our minds."

On a new two-disc release from the PORTRAITS series, PWM's ANAKLASIS label invites you to play with your experiences and expectations. The album "Acousmatic Music" presents the philosophy of music as interpreted by one of the most intriguing contemporary composers – Marcin Stańczyk. 

Marcin Stańczyk, pupil of, among others, Zygmunt Krauze and Ivan Fedele, has won prizes in many international composers’ competitions, including (as the only Polish composer) the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award, Japan’s most prestigious prize in the field of composition. He is an artist who both seeks and finds solutions, asks questions and provides us with answers. 

The four works that make up this two-CD program originated in reflection on the essence and the perception of music. Some Drops, composed for an itinerant trumpet and an orchestra being rained upon, puts our senses to the test. We can never be sure of where and how far from us the source of sound is located. Blind Walk, which premiered at the Venice Biennale, is performed to a blindfolded audience and comments on the difference between listening only with the ears and perceiving a concert with all the senses. Similar ideas gave rise to Sursounds, a piece about ‘what is above the sounds’. This extraordinary piece from the borderland between waking and dreaming fuses recognizable concrete sounds with abstract ambient music.


(Narodowe Forum Muzyki Presents Marcin Stańczyk's Sursounds)

Unseen, about the search for happiness, was inspired by the summer solstice and the rituals associated with that time. The performers on this new ANAKLASIS record are all new music celebrities: the singer and equally outstanding composer, Agata Zubel; the double-bell trumpet player, Marco Blaauw, as well as several distinguished ensembles: E-MEX Ensemble, Ensemble Musikfabrik and the Lutosławski Quartet. 

You are invited once again to put on the record and close your eyes. What do you see? 

"Acousmatic Music" has been recorded and released in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. 

To learn more about "Acousmatic Music", click here.

To learn more about Marcin Stańczyk, PWM's May 2021 "Composer of the Month", visit: pwm.com.pl.


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