Tangible Music Club # 5: Krzystof Cybulski

// Krzystof Cybulski

My practice as a musician could probably be described as a cross between a broad-sense composition (as described by Katya Davisson) and generative music, which I understand as creating conditions for the music to emerge spontaneously, rather than preparing fixed musician compositions. In this regard, an act of building new musical instruments, which are then coupled in different combinations as an environment for improvised musical performances, is an equivalent of a compositional decision; certain instruments impose specific musical possibilities, hence the improvised music stays within specific boundaries.
For the purposes of the “Tangible Music Club” performance, I’ve decided to use two of my instruments - Memo/Move and GranuSpinu - which I’ve never used together before, although both instruments operate in slightly similar ways, hence the combination might result in an interesting musical outcome. We’re only going to find out whether that’s the case during the actual improvised performance…
https://krzysztofcybulski.com/memomove.php
https://krzysztofcybulski.com/granuspinu.php

Krzysztof Cybulski (*1980) is a musician, sound artist, new-media installation and musical instrument inventor/builder. In his work he combines analog, digital, acoustic and mechanical elements in a post digital approach, often picking up obsolete technologies from where they were left to create new and surprising combinations. He’s especially concerned with semi-autonomous generative systems, consisting of digital and physical elements as well as human agents. He received his PhD (with distinction) in composition / sound engineering / music performance from Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Poland. His work has been locally and internationally recognized, including 2nd prize at the Margaret Guthman Musical Instruments Competition at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2020, an honorary mention at Prix Ars Electronica in 2017 in the category “digital musics & sound art”, as well as a number of composition grants and art scholarships from Polish cultural institutions and the Ministry of Culture (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2024). He presented his work on a number of international festivals and events, such as Future Innovators Summit, Ars Electronica Festival, Athens Digital Art Festival, International Conference of New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Biennale Wro, AudioArt and Ad Libitum, among others. Apart from his personal artistic practice, he’s also a co-founder of internationally recognized new media art collective “panGenerator”. He also collaborated with a number of musicians, such as Emil Schult, Robert Curgenven, Krzysztof Knittel, Anna Zaradny, Norman Leto, Hubert Zemler, to name a few.