Duchnowski, Cezary
Composer and pianist, born on 25 February 1971 in Elbląg. He studied composition with Leszek Wisłocki at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław. He was one of the initiators of the Computer Composition Studio at this Academy, where he also currently teaches, mainly computer music design and composition.
Duchnowski has won prestigious awards in the International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music in Rome and the Dutch Gaudeamus modern music performance competition. He works in a wide range of genres, including chamber and symphonic works, multimedia and interactive improvised projects. For many years, he has focused on electroacoustic music.
He performs in ElettroVoce duo with Agata Zubel. With Paweł Hendrich and Sławomir Kupczak, he founded Phonos ek Mechanes, an ensemble working with “human electronics,” a special type of improvised electronic music in which computers are controlled by acoustic instruments. In Morphai ensemble with Marcin Rupociński in the late 1990s, he created interdisciplinary projects combining music, dance, performance art, and sound installations. Recently he has again increasingly engaged in syncretic art, in which music plays a key role in co-creating polymedia artistic works.
Selected works: Parallels for instruments and electronics (2014), Drone Music for instruments and electronics (2014), Symphony of Sets for instrumental group and electronics (2015), Stories Nowhere From for voice, piano and electronics, collective composition (2015), eSequenza I. Study for a Second Cymbal Stroke for cymbal and computer (2016), Fables for Robots, co-opera after short stories by Stanisław Lem (with Paweł Hendrich, 2016), Relatively Closed Systems (with Paweł Hendrich and Paweł Romańczuk, 2017), cROSSFAdE 2 for viola, accordion and electronics (2017), Relatively Closed System for total piano and virtual machines (2017), Ball of Spring Plenitude for instruments and electronics (2017), Upbeat for 8-channel tape (with Rafał Augustyn, 2018), eSequenza II. Starter for harpsichord and computer (2018), The Rage for voice, instruments and electronics (2018), cROSSFAdE III for voice, accordion and electronics (2019), Whims for semantoabsorbing phonotyser (with Agata Zubel, 2020), Whims for desemantric verbaphone (with Agata Zubel, 2020), Devil’s Fiddle, rural opera (collaboration, 2020), eSequenza III. The Rest for voice and computer (2020), Radio Quartet for electric current and complementary sounds (2020), From Perfect Void for voices and electronics, parts 2 and 5 (2021), phonoPhantomatics for instruments and electronics (2021), Wooden for cello (2021), cROSSFAdE 4 for trumpet, trombone and electronics (2023).