Storyboard powstał we wpółpracy z Adamem Bałdychem aby wykreować subtelne połączenie brzmienia jazzu akustycznego, mojego podejścia do zagadnienia orkiestry smyczkowej i śmietanki w postaci charakterystycznego brzmienia skrzypiec Adama. Wyszedł nam materiał bardziej zróżnicowany, niż oczekiwaliśmy - od ballad tak miękkich w brzmieniu, że moje uszy eksplodowały aż po zwariowane rytmiczne kawałki wałkujące elektronikę i potężne jazzowe uderzenie. Nigdy przedtem nie napisałem niczego podobnego. read more »
Snub Cube is a journey into open modal and formal improvisation, where harmonically intense themes are to be build upon in a modular and rhythmic, but also sensitive and musical way. Snub Cube relies on dialogue, and sometimes resorts to fierce battles, but tries to avoid being selfish. Its sophisticated geometrical form it took name from has been severly upgraded by old-school graffiti artists - and taking this metaphor back to musical idiom - Snub Cube do resort to funky countermeasures. read more »
This is a big band that is playing more dynamic marks that any other. Our featured bass clarinet player is craving for a rest here and there, but I like when people are red on their faces. When even our singer loses her breath singing a crazy line with the trumpets we can always resort to harp, vibraphone and a string quartet to provide some easily sustainable ambience with their evolving ostinatos. (I hope an evolving ostinato isn't too much of a contradiction)
This band is responsible for helping me out with my master's recital for which I wrote an hour long piece named Extreme Conditions - hence the name of the band. Everything was led, supervised and conducted by the great Ed Partyka, to whom I will forever be in debt for making something out of my score.
Muzyka, która wciąga w eksplorację
Nikola Kołodziejczyk Orchestra to projekt, który stworzyłem aby trochę przewietrzyć pomysły, które kisiły mi się w głowie od dawna. Kiedy tworzyłem ten skład wiedziałem jedno, jeśli chodzi o dobór muzyków i instrumentów: żadnych granic. read more »
Tunisian vocals, oud and kanun virtuosos meet an american string quartet written for by a polish composer (that is totally out of his mind when it comes to arranging someone else's music), a serbian percussionist, a french flamenco guitarist and some crazy music.
Composer's Ensemble is here to deliver insane music from emerging composers taught by prof. Ed Partyka(USA/Austria) and it's lineup resembles a symphonic orchestra in a way an instant soup resembles a soup. In other words it's an essence, a compressed feel of a symphonic orchestra so the tools to operate on it stay the same, but I don't have to make more than 53 phone calls before each rehearsal.
The next difference is that we have jazz players helping here and there - a soprano saxophonist, a trumpet/flugelhorn player, rhythm section, voice, electric guitar apart from acoustic guitar, and on vibraphone and marimba You can find some decent jazzmen too.
