Composer and pianist, born in 1971 in Elbląg. He studied composition in the class of Leszek Wisłocki at the Academy of Music  in Wrocław. He focuses on electroacoustic music. He also creates chamber and symphonic works, multimedia and interactive  improvised projects.  

He performs in the 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.  

Syncretic art, in which music crucially contributes to polymedia artistic works, is gaining importance in his output. This  trend is represented by sound installations and theatrical shows.  Duchnowski has held scholarships from the Friends of Warsaw  Autumn Foundation, the Polish Minister of Culture and National  Heritage, Heinrich Strobel Foundation’s Experimental Studio  des SWR, and Ernst von Siemens Foundation in Munich. His  accolades include prizes at the International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music in Rome, and the Gaudeamus modern music performance competition in the Netherlands. Duchnowski is  professor of composition at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music  in Wrocław as well as the cocreator of its Computer Composition  Studio. 

Selected works (since 2014): Parallels for instruments and  electronics (2014), Drone Music for instruments and electronics  (2014), Symphony of Sets for instrumental groups 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  Hend rich, 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 Ag a-  ta Zubel, 2020), Devil’s Fiddle, rural opera (with Radical Polish  Ansambl, 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), Woodenfor cello (2021), cROSSFAdE 4 for  trumpet, trombone and electronics (2023), Matching Components  for percussion, hybrid instruments, electronic and visual media  (collective audiovisual multimedia work with Marcin Rupociński  – music, Maja Wolińska and Laura Adel – video, 2024), The Best  City in the World. An Opera about Warsaw in 16 scenes for two  female voices, choirs, great symphony orchestra and electronics,  to a libretto by Beniamin Bukowski after Grzegorz Piątek’s book  The Best City in the World (2025), Cryotune, part of the immersive  project Random Check 7 (with Laura Adel – video, 2025), Posthumana 1 for instruments and electronics (2025), Musical Composition for percussion, accordion and electronics (2026).