Cybulski, Krzysztof
Musician and sound artist, combining analogue, digital, acoustic, and mechanical solutions in his works. He also creates interactive sound objects and instruments. His accolades include the 2018 Passport Award of the Polityka weekly (in the category of digital culture, with panGenerator, a group he cofounded and has cocreated since 2010), 2nd Prize at the 2020 Guthman Musical Instruments Competition, as well as a Prix Ars Electronica honorary mention in 2017. Cybulski is a PhD student at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw (Department of Sound Engineering), member of PSeME (the Polish Section of International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music), and STOART collective management organisation. He teaches a postgraduate Creative Coding course on interactive sound objects at the SWPS / School of Form, as well as numerous workshops and lectures at the intersection of art and technology, for instance at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was awarded artistic scholarships by the Capital City of Warsaw (2019) and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2017), as well as grants from the Composing Commissions programme (2013 and 2015). He has participated notably in the Future Innovators Summit / Ars Electronica Festival (Austria), Athens Digital Art Festival, International Conference of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (Denmark and UK), Guthman Musical Instruments Competition, Warsaw Autumn, Musica Polonica Nova, Biennale WRO, Ad Libitum, Audio Art, and Instalakcje. His artistic collaborators include Robert Curgenven, Krzysztof Knittel, Anna Zaradny, Norman Leto, Grzech Piotrowski, and Sławomir Wojciechowski. Cybulski is the cofounder of Lomi Lomi group and member of 4way Quartet.
Selected works / installations: ABBBEEEIKKR, six variations on the Lithuanian song Bek, bare, beki for cello, electric guitar, piccolo bass guitar, four voices and live electronics (2013), AAS, sound installation (2015), MORPH for cello, bass clarinet and live electronics (2015), Aaron S, opera (with Sławomir Wojciechowski, Paweł Krzaczkowski and Norman Leto, 2016), Suma 4’30, music composition and graphic score (with Michał Górczyński, Robert Curgenven and Paweł Krzaczkowski, 2017), AHS, sound objects (2017), Pneumatophones, sound installation (2019), Modular Process Music for self-created sound objects (2016–22).