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41/2021
X - Tradycja
In #41 we look at tradition. Tradition - but not peasantish, nostalgic turns, yet folklore unveiled and dissected. How it was, how it is, how it will be.
glissando recent stories
Break the Silence
"Sugar, Spice & All Things Nice" is a piece about sexism; about sexual harassment, comments between the lines, and offensive jokes based on gender stereotypes. The piece contains stories from people I know personally; it is a collective story, as most of these situations could have happened to any of us. The statements I collected have remained almost completely unchanged. In my music, I prefer a multiplicity of meanings and interweaving of themes, but in this case, the directness of the message was important.
Global and Local: An Observation from the Neighborhood
The vision of Sacrum Profanum, especially this year’s edition, catalyzes our thinking on the contemporary issues which we face on […]
Dusting off old keys
Jimmy Smith’s flourishes on the Hammond organ; Herbie Hancock’s and Chick Corea’s experiments with the Rhodes piano; Jon Lord playing […]
“As many dreams of freedom as we can get” – on gender and inclusivity in electronic music at the Mutek festival’s “Keychange :: Amplify” symposium
I recall an interaction when I was travelling to Montreal for the first time in the summer of 2017, when a fellow […]
Towards a New, Better Festival
Festivals are one of my favorite forms of musical reception. I like listening to music performed live. I like listening to the […]
Sonic Displacement Therapy
As much as many would doubtlessly disagree, I have always felt Kraków to be quite a healthy place for both underground music […]