Strycharski, Dominik International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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Composer, recorder player, vocalist, improviser, performer, and  writer. Largely self-taught in all these fields, he complemented his  artistic practice with studies in Music Education at the University  of Silesia in Cieszyn.

A versatile artist with a fascination for virtually every manifestation of music, he has released more than 30 albums with  his own or co-led projects, most notably Pulsarus, as well as  Core 6, Rhplus, Prophetic Fall, Max Klezmer Band, Pardon To  Tu Orchestra, and as a solo artist.

He has composed music for more than 90 theatre and dance productions. He also leads experimental vocal workshops, combining the development of vocal awareness with improvisation and  collective creative practice. Since 1 April 2015, he has maintained  a unique ongoing musical diary, creating a musical or sonic composition or structure every day as part of an open-ended artistic  process.

Together with DJ CueFx, he cofounded the production duo  BandFx, with which he has released several albums. He was also  a member of Kostas New Program, recording three albums and  performing extensively with the group. He is regarded as one of  the pioneers of live electronic club performance in Poland. For  nearly two decades, he has cooperated with DJs and was among  the first Polish musicians to incorporate turntables as a performance instrument.

From 2001 onwards, he was a composer and performer with  Teatr Bretoncaffe, an award-winning theatre company. Productions created by the company—including Lustro, Slam.In, S-nic,  Slam.Out, T.Raum, Smuggy, Opera Toffi, Manifest Jaszczurki,  Dion.Is.Us, and Agave—have been presented regularly at festivals  in Poland and abroad, including in Berlin, Tallinn, Paris, Budapest, and Prague.

Selected works: Music Diary, experimental cycle comprising  more than 500 miniatures employing electronics, field recordings and a wide range of compositional techniques (2015–),  Ursus Factory Symphony for recorders, electronics, jazz ensemble,  voice, mixed choir and wind orchestra (2018–21), Duch Meduzy  (The Spirit of Medusa) for recorders and electronics, a response  to Witold Szalonek’s cycle of flute works (2022), Harmonie for  alto recorder and piano, a response to Louis Andriessen’s Melodie  (2023), Box of Boxing for Kwartludium and conductor-performer  (2023), The Frame for recorders, electronics and AUKSO Chamber Orchestra (2023), We Have A Problem for electroacoustic  string octet, tape and video (2025), ReHuman for ensemble and  media (2025), From My Room, an experimental opera for ensemble, soprano, bass, harpsichord, electronics and video (2026),  ReThink for electric string quartet, electronics, audio track and  video (2026).