A teaser for the new electroacoustic work by Tomasz Jakub Opałka, entitled Party Crasher, is now up online. It features performances on the cello by Magdalena Bojanowicz-Koziak and the composer on synths, percussion, and trombone. Headphones or a good sound system are recommended for listening, because of the very interesting and loud low frequencies in…Continue Reading Preview of Opałka’s Party Crasher
The first complete edition of six Ballads for piano solo composed by Jadwiga Sarnecka (1873? -1913) has been published by the Eufonium publishing house. This recent edition was based entirely on the composer’s extant manuscripts preserved at the Jagiellonian University Library, which were researched and edited by Marek Szlezer, a Krakow-based pianist and scholar. According…Continue Reading First Complete Edition of Ballads by Jadwiga Sarnecka
“Hear the Future” from Szczecin What will the future sound like? On 16 February 2021, the Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic in Szczecin held a conference to explore just that. As part of the campaign “I hear good sounds,” various research perspectives of acoustic ecology—in anthropology, philosophy, sociology, media studies—and in the fields of medicine—otolaryngology and neuropsychology—were…Continue Reading Musicological Conferences in Poland Go Online