Trio Jérôme Noetinger, Robert Piotrowicz, and Anna Zaradny
In the fall of 2018, Jérôme Noetinger, Robert Piotrowicz, and Anna Zaradny released the highly acclaimed “Crackfinder.” Recorded live at the 2016 edition of Krakow’s Sacrum Profanum Festival, “Crackfinder” is a “tour de force” by three leading musicians of the international improvisational / electroacoustic music scene. From Piotrowicz’s synthesizers, to Zaradny’s saxophone improvisations all the way to Noetinger’s live tape manipulations, the trio stands on the fringes of sound practices and explores constantly shifting aural phenomena. In Krzysztof Pietraszewski’s words: “Cracks – both material and metaphorical – do not have to be the negative effect of an abrupt event. They can be the beginning of change, an opening for the new, an impulse for action. It is, therefore, worth continuing the search for the ‘portals of change’.”
Anna Zaradny is a sound and visual artist, composer, and improviser. She is the co-founder of the Musica Genera Festival and the Musica Genera Label.
The creativity of Anna Zaradny is expressed through sound and visual art. As a composer and instrumentalist she works in a wide spectrum of genres: from acoustic improvised music with a contemporary minimalist language to the complex structures of experimental electronic music compositions. As a visual artist, Zaradny creates in various media including installations, objects, photography, and video. The artist uses abstraction, micro sound and architectonic elements, lights and space. Her pieces are marked by the ambiguity and the relationship between medium and ideas. Zaradny’s works have been presented in festivals and exhibitions all over the world, the most recent ones being at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw; SiILBERKUPPE, Berlin; Kunst-Werke, Berlin; Sottovoce, London; What Is Music? Festival, Sydney, Melbourne; All Ears Festival, Oslo; Unsound Festival New York; Exploratory Music from Poland; Super-Deluxe Tokyo, Japan.The discography of Anna Zaradny includes solo recordings and collaborative projects with Jérôme Noetinger, Burkhard Stangl, Christian Fennesz, Robert Piotrowicz, Tony Buck, and Kasper Toeplitzr, among others. She often writes music for theater plays and multimedia projects.
Anna Zaradny was recently nominated for the art prize Spojrzenia 2011, hosted by Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw. She is the recipient of several grants and scholarships: Museums Quartier Vienna (2005); Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2013), Consultant and music researcher in the Escape Act Project for Alexandra Bachzetsis (2018); Residence Elektronmusikstudion EMS, Stockholm (2016); Contemporary Research Music Center (KSYME/CRM), Athens (2018–2019).
Photo: Grzegorz Mart
Jérôme Noetinger is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary electronic music. Together with French cinematographers/performers Christophe Auger and Xavier Quérel, he founded Cellule D’Intervention Metamkine in 1987. He has collaborated with Mathieu Werchowski and longtime partner Lionel Marchetti since 1993. Noetinger has performed with Nachtluft, Voice Crack, Tom Cora, Keith Rowe, and avant-improv orchestra MIMEO. He founded and runs the record label and distributor Metamkine (curating its “Cinéma pour l’oreille” collection).
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Robert Piotrowicz is a sound artist, composer, and improviser, co-founder of Musica Genera Festival and a label, Musica Genera. Apart from releasing solo albums, he has also published joint projects created in collaboration with C. Spencer Yeh, Kevin Drumm, Jérôme Noetinger, Burkhard Stangle, and Anna Zaradny. He is an author of audio dramas, installations, and theater music; moreover, he collaborates with other artists on audiovisual forms and theater plays. He regularly performs within numerous music festivals all over the world. When performing live, Robert Piotrowicz creates rich, detailed forms, with the use of an analog synthesizer and computer. His music is equally strongly related with contemporary electroacoustic compositions and sound art.
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