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I was involved in creating sound for virtual environments where you could notice and hear more when you stop. I went to Copenhagen in 2022 for an exhibition of those Char Davies' VR works in Fotografisk Center. On Sunday morning Jun 05, I recorded a real walk, with a recorder in a belly bag, from the city center, by the hotel to the art gallery. My movement and steps were masking other sounds, only pausing was opening an acoustic horizon for listening and noticing more.

As a part of “Garage Stream” project, it is based on selection from two days of continuous recordings in the garage. Five floors of apartments are broadcasting live, down to the garage through endless streams of water as traces of people presence.

Study for One Bell Stroke, for a PSeME competition as a part of the celebration of the 500th anniversay of the Sigismund Bell in Krakow.

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It is an audio timelapse of unherad sounds from a tiny park near a summer house. I mounted an autonomous recorder on a tree to caputure sound of one week in August. This audio work represents 24 hours of sound, starting from 8 pm in the evening, „compressed” to seven minutes. The sounds from consecuitive soundfiles are overlapping in several layers to create a sound flow of the whole day. After a quiet night some roosters start the day which is full of ephemeral sounds saved by my recorder, augmenting my perception.

For Radiophrenia (http://radiophrenia.scot/)

It is an audio timelapse of unherad sounds from a tiny park near a summer house. I mounted an autonomous recorder on a tree to caputure sound of one week in August. This audio work represents 24 hours of sound, starting from 8 pm in the evening, „compressed” to seven minutes. The sounds from consecuitive soundfiles are overlapping in several layers to create a sound flow of the whole day. After a quiet night some roosters start the day which is full of ephemeral sounds saved by my recorder, augmenting my perception.

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All new and old analogue clocks, watches and timers staying at my place, recorded and played back in original speed. There is no processing of their flow. Sometimes you need to wind them up to listen to the rhythm of seconds. Almost seconds.

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Stay-at-home in March 2020 was an obligation which I treated as an invitation for local observations including “listening through the windows” with an autonomous recorder on the roof. Two minutes soundfiles were recorded every ten minutes to preserve sound envelopes of each day.
„Through Our Windows” consists of a linear sequence of excerpts from recordings of each hour. One minute of the piece represents four hours of real time. The sound is not processed. Four parts are built from recordings of four days. A short introduction brings police announcements to stay at home.

For The Lake Radio (http://thelakeradio.com/)

"A constant stream of music, sounds and radio art from all times..." describes a radio broadcast. On a radio archive level, concurrent digitization processes also create streams of sounds from all times, spread over the space of several digitization studios. In addition to audio tape playback action, rewinding the tapes is necessary in order to complete the process. It appears with its special stream-like sound packed with recordings, forming an audification of radio archival collection. Rewinding brings fast motion in time and space, in the form of points, lines and spiral curves of radio sounds.

For "Polish Radio Experimental Studio Rebooted" - based on PRSE samples.

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Several old objects from the family house arrived at my place last year. A floor grandfather clock, various boxes and glasses, a counting machine, a typerwiter, a tube radio that still works. Starting the clock introduced a steady counter of time, ticking the seconds and striking the hours as it was in the old house. Touching the belongings brings the sounds that were listened to by many other people before. It’s like a tactile broadcast from the past, sharing the same sounds. The inherited sounds.

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(  From „Inherited Sounds” project  )

Unpacking and touching old family belongings opens a sound „portal” to the past. The sound is brought from the past to intersect with the presence creating a space of shared listening.
Sounds of the objects come into being once more now, adding their layers to a time flow, marking passage of time as an old clock adding its ticking layer of the present time, as a tube radio still able to receive a current radio broadcast with the time signal. Overlapping layers unveil time polyphony of Inherited Sounds.

For Earlid Liminal Sounds (http://www.earlid.org)

Magnetic skin of an audio tape contains sound encoded in magnetic particles. Moving and rubbing the magnetic surface over the head gives the sound back while playing or fast rewinding. The latter might make the tape sing or scream. The tape can be reused creating a new sound image within the magnetic layer. The traces of older recordings may be found sometimes before the beginning and after the end of the new recording when the tape was not erased.
Several real audio snippets of “found footage” surrounding recordings were collected from the tapes while digitizing radio archives. Different tape speed, different direction of the old recording on reel-to-reel tape had created unexpected edits with the new material.

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Typing “ARL3” allows to enter Augmented Radio Listening space of coexisting radio broadcasts. It is the very beginning of Radio Day 2018 heard through real concurrent radio transmissions, as though we could perceive all the waves at the same time, with distortions, modulations, movement. The broadcasts get synchronized in time and spread as potential signals ready to be decoded in radio receivers and listened to as real sound.
Fourteen sound streams of Polish radio stations were collected from 23:45 (Feb 12) to 00:45 (Feb 13) broadcast. This collage should be listened to on headphones as it uses binaural processing (which was programmed by Glen Fraser).

Augmented Radio Listening

ARL No 2 (2017)

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An audio representation of a space of coexisting radio broadcasts, crowded with numerous radio waves. It is structured in the form of short variations on the sound of concurrent radio transmissions, as though we could perceive all the waves at the same time, with overlaps, distortions, splits, modulations, vibrations and movement. It is based on real sound streams of several Polish radio stations, broadcast on Jun 29, 2017, collected from the beginning of each hour throughout the day and played back simultaneously as a sequence of variations. The piece should be listened to on headphones as it uses binaural processing.
The module for binaural processing and movement was programmed by Glen Fraser.

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Digitization of audio archives is a time machine for recorded sounds and words on tapes, sounds of the past of people, places, cities. The tape recorder, a digitization tool, plays the sounds back and liberate them. It can rewind and transform sound into rapid streams. It can find the words. Warszawa. It can stop. Silence.
This short piece was prepared as “audio image from Warsaw” for a set of several audio composition (http://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/3383). Polish name of Warsaw appears in the title on purpose. It’s there on tape and you can hear it in Polish in the recording.