Śmigasiewicz, Mateusz
Born in 1989; sound artist, composer, and musician. He graduated in composition and multimedia from Zygmunt Krauze’s class at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.
His multifaceted artistic activity ranges from chamber and symphonic to electroacoustic music as well as illustrative works for theatre and film. He has taken part in composition masterclasses notably with Simon Steen-Andersen, Phillippe Manoury, Johannes Kreidler, Mark Andre, Agata Zubel, Stefan Prins, Marco Stroppa, Marta Ptaszyńska, Maurizio Sotelo, and Ondřej Adámek. His works have been presented in Poland at Warsaw Autumn, Warsaw Musical Meetings, Musica Privata, and Musica Electronica Nova as well as Ukraine, Italy, Indonesia, and Hungary.
He follows intuition but also finds processual thinking close to his approach. He is fond of arranging situations in which the rules of communication are not quite explicit, opening the space of mystery in his composition.
Selected works: M A G M A 2 for amplified accordion (2017), Les Sirènes for orchestra and ambient sounds (2019–20), The Ways of Wood for portative organ, audio playback and video (2020), oscillating music for two MOOG synthesizers and audio playback (2021), KWARC for 16 strings and audio playback (2023), MONOLIT, cycle of multichannel electronic compositions (2023–), (re)calling for early music instrumental ensemble (2024).