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tactile bench - wood, transducer, sound

Gardens, 15.08-04.10.2015, Zachęta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

Drum Channels – Cymbal Smiths

Krzysztof Topolski and Aydin Tekin at Zilli Cymbals workshop, Istambul 2014.

Jazz and Experimantal Music from Poland , 2014MIAM, Centre for Advanced Studies in Music, Istanbul

Commissioned for JEMP Istambul 2014, and inspired by the manufacture of the finest Turkish cymbals, the ‘Drum Channels’ project saw electroacoustic improviser, author of soundart projects, drummer, field recordist, and curator Krzysztof Topolski (A.K.A. Arszyn) work with Hubert Zemler, a drummer notable for his work in the Polish alternative music scene.

The project involved field recording sessions, installation, local cymbal making workshops and a performance of Polish sixties experiential music including ‘Study for One Cymbal Stroke’ by the late Włodzimierz Kotonski.

Selbstassemblierung

Maciej Chodziński + Krzysztof Topolski

video, 6 channels sound, objects, site-specific installation

Narracje 6 Festival, The Sage and The Ghost 15-16.11.2014 Gdańsk

Soundplay

The “Soundplay” book was published in the scope of an art project iniciated by Laznia Centre forContemporary Art in 2012. Soundplay project is a series of workshops, concerts and lecturesfocused on the on the art of sound. The book consists of several texts written by: sociologist andtheoretician of phenomena connected with hearing, Michał Libera, theoretician of art of newmedias, Maciej Ożóg, architect, Justyna Borucka, specialist in building of experimental instruments,Johannes Bergmark, musician, Michał Górczyński and musician and creator of simple electronicmusic devices, Maciej Wojnicki. A DVD with films made during a workshop lead by documentaristMarek Zygmunt has been enclosed.

Curator of the Soundplay project is Krzysztof Topolski.

Authors of texts: Johannes Bergmark, Justyna Borucka, Michał Górczyński, Michał Libera, MaciejOżóg, Maciej Wojnicki

Scientific editing: Krzysztof Topolski, Krzysztof Miękus

The book was published in the scope of the Art+Science Meeting project thanks to the financialsupport of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

CCA Laznia, Gdansk, 2014http://www.laznia.pl/index.php?mod=ksiegarnia&&lang=en

American Can

R e - c r e a t i o n o f M a x N e u h a u s ’ American Can, 1 1 . 1 1 . 2 0 1 3 , T h e O v a l ,Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

Event known as American Can, staged during the winter of 1966-67 in Staten Island’s Cloves LakesPark (New York) and other locations around the city. Participants were invented to bounce or slidethe cans that carpeted the ground, though whether they were given additional and temporalguidelines is no longer known.

Realized in the scope of ArtsLink residency.

Audio documentation :

http://arszyn.bandcamp.com/track/american-can

Presence | In the field, Suwałki region

Field recordings, sound composition, concerts, installations, cdr.

In the Field: Suwałki Region is a very sentimental project. I was born in Kalinowo, but I spend mychildhood and youth in Suwałki. The project is based on a series of field recordings gained in the Suwałki Region. An important partof project will also be the reflection on vibration, resonance and the energy of sound in the air,water, bodies, rooms, architecture, voice. Wandering through forests and fields and looking for sound, I return home, I touch the past andexplore my memory. I return to places I know and discover new ones through listening (recording).

Realized in scope of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage scholarship, 2013.

Audio :

http://arszyn.bandcamp.com/album/presence

More info :

http://krzysztoftopolski.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/in-the-field-suwalki-region/

Arszyn Emigrant GPS

Interactive GPS sound application.

Krzysztof Topolski, the author of “Arszyn / Emigrant GPS”, takes the passengers of the SKMrailway circulating between Gdynia, Sopot, and Gdańsk on an acoustic journey through tales andcountries. The installation is based on GPS and a mobile phone with the adequately programmedAndroid application. Gegraphical position of the train controls playback during the travel. Everystation it is another recording. Users will hear stories of Poles which were registered in Londonduring the work on the “Arszyn Emigrant” project in 2007. Commission of Emigration Museum inGdynia.

MIGRATIONS | CREATIONS (exhibition)July 1-14, 2013, SKM network, Gdańsk – Sopot – Gdynia.

Idea, field recordings, sound design by Krzysztof Topolski, programming by Maciej Wojnicki.

More info :

http://muzeumemigracji.pl/the-acoustic-dimension-of-emigration/

Application :

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.studioo.emigracja&hl=pl

Museum of Sounds / Sound Microscope

The soundscape changes constantly. Old sounds change all the time. Where is their museum?R.Murray Schafer

Museum of Sound is a project held in National Museum in Krakow consisting of various actionsusing sound. We are used to watching art in museums, perceiving it though sight. We forget howimportant it is to listen to it. Sound can extract unusual stories and revive objects. The first elementof the project is Sound Microscope – an interactive sound installation open from March 2013 in theGallery of Decorative Art in the Main Building of National Museum in Krakow.

Idea, field recordings, sound design by Krzysztof Topolski, programming by Maciej Wojnicki.

More info and sounds :

http://www.muzeum.dzwiekow.pl/?lang=en

In Port with a Hydrophone

I invented a kind of a recording practice, active and systematic listening. I decided to makehydrophone recordings for seven days in the same place in Gdańsk, near the estuary of the MartwaWisła river. There is a Polferries ferry harbour there and Westerplatte on the other bank. Small andbig vessels are swimming there: ferries, fishing boats, tugboats, floating cranes and excavatorswhich generate the whole range of various noises. Every day I also took a picture there. The recordings are presented in the form of the fragments chosen from the recorded material lastingfor a few minutes. Sounds and pictures are described by dates and the time when the recordingbegan is given.

More info, sounds and pictures :

http://zin.art.pl/arszyn/index.php/project

Published by http://zin.art.pl 2012

Baltic Sounds Good

Field recording workshops & electroacoustic concert (27-30.09.11), 24 h Stena Line ferry trip(Gdynia-Karlskrona-Gdynia), EL Gallery, Elbląg

Sound installation on board Stena Vision and Stena Spirit ferries.

06 July – 06 September 2012

As passenger you can listen to a sound installation, Baltic Sounds Good, on the aft deck. BalticSounds Good is a sound art-project, in which artists gathered around, on, over and under the surfaceof the Baltic Sea. An electro-acoustic concert was held in Galeria El in Elblag and it was live-streamed on internet. Polish sound artists, Krzysztof Topolski, and Maciej Olewniczak from the artgallery in Elblag led the workshop. The other participants were Mariusz Owczarek, Wiktor Piskorz,Rafał Wawrzyk, Danil Akimov and Sergey Ivanov. They visited the Marine Research in the HelPeninsula in Poland, where the recorded sounds from the aquarium and seals. They visited the portof Hel and Gdynia before they boarded the ferry Stena Vision where Captain Tommy Kembringreleased the artists into backstage areas. Back at the art gallery in Elblag, Galeria EL, theycomposed the joint concert as a musical score in the form of an overview plan of the ferry. You cansee a movie about the workshop on board in a conference room. The film was produced by JakubStrumiński and Edyta Machul.

Realised in the scope of Art Line project. More info:

http://www.artlinecatalogue.eu/event-baltic-sounds-good.html

Attention! Porpoise | Arszyn Amplificador 5

Bluetooth installation / performance/lecture / workshop, Baltic Sea Cultural Centre in Gdansk,18.06 – 30.06.2010

Wireless Bluetooth transmitter installed in The Old Town Hall in Gdańsk will enable people withinits coverage to connect to it with their mobile phones. After activating Bluetooth protocol in amobile phone, transmitter is sending to each identified device message inviting to download soundfiles.

During the project “Amplificador 5” short acoustic forms, namely recordings of syntheticrepresentation of sounds emitted by porpoises will be transformed into mobile phone ringtones.They will be available in mp3 format. Short, dynamically variable acoustic events also called“click-trains” are generated by porpoises during echolocation. They perfectly serve the purpose ofbeing the mobile phone tones that fill the audiospace so ubiquitously recently. It has to bementioned that they will not be the real sounds of porpoises but their synthetic representation, somekind of acoustic phantom, equivalent of reality that cannot be heard.

During echolocation porpoises use frequencies beyond the range of human ear.

Software that is used for reading and analysis of acoustic data gathered by scientists has some sidefunction. Namely, the sound synthesiser that creates synthetic acoustic events simulating soundsemitted by porpoises in the way that is audible for human ear. As far as the research project isconcerned it is a side function and very often unused; from the point of view of sound artist it isvery interesting or even essential.

More info and sounds :http://krzysztoftopolski.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/amplificador-5/

http://www.hel.ug.edu.pl/aktu/2010/morswin_w_komorce.htm

Factory

Installation/exhibition CoCA Torun, Poland, Oct 23,2009 to Jan 17, 2010

Mariusz Waras (M-city) / Krzysztof Topolski (Arszyn), curated by Daniel Muzyczuk

The collaboration of a visual artist and an experimental musician has resulted in a most interestingand thought-provoking artistic project. Mariusz Waras and Krzysztof Topolski’s spectacular site-specific installation was made specifically to be exhibited in the biggest room at the Centre ofContemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Toruń.

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you’d care to name comesfrom working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have tostop working.

Bob Black, The Abolition of Work

More info :

http://csw.torun.pl/exhibitions/exhibitions-db/factory

http://krzysztoftopolski.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/factory-2/

Tresymesy

The “Tresymesy” piece has been composed as a part of the “Mission Europe” project. It is based onthe field recordings and recordings of human voices made in Zagreb, Sarajevo, Belgrade andGdansk. It began as a kind of query: the recorded people were asked to say “home”, “family” andsome words they find important in their native language. The artists were interested in the language;the similarities and the differences between most basic words.

F i e l d r e c o r d i n g s a n d p r o d u c t i o n : M a r c i n D y m i t e r , K r z y s z t o f T o p o l s k iBelgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Gdansk 2006-2007Project done in line with Audiotong & Mission Europe

More info :

http://krzysztoftopolski.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/tresymesy-2/

Sounds :

http://audiotong.bandcamp.com/album/tresymesy

Audio Tourism | Kaliningrad - Gdansk

Meeting and cooperation of sound artists from Gdańsk and Kalliningrad. Research trips to Gdańskand Kaliningrad, workshops, field recordings, concerts, improvisations. Artists from Gdańsk andKaliningrad recorded music of the cities, then improvised with its source material, both exploringhistory and current situation of both places.

Artists: Sergy Ivanov, Marcin Dymiter, Vladimir Igoshin, Angelika Fojtuch, Vadim Haly, AdamWitkowski, Olaf Nowaczyk

CCA Laznia, Gdansk + NCCA Kaliningrad , 2005, CDCurated by Krzysztof Topolski, Danil Akimov

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Krzysztof Topolski's web side : works, pictures, discography, workshops, sounds

http://krzysztoftopolski.wordpress.com