Mazzoll

About Mazzoll A Polish clarinetist born in 1968 in Gdansk. He started playing the clarinet at the age of 8 inspired by the works of such great contemporary Polish composers as Lutoslawski and Gorecki. Founder and leader of several music groups. Composer of film and theatrical music. Creator of the theory of "arrhythmic perfection". His music, often classified as the New Improvised Music, explores uncharted territories of harmony, rhythm and melody. His musical quest includes trash jazz, freak ballads and cage songs. Such collision of various sound energies creates a unique atmosphere of each musical event. ____________________________________________________________ ______ Mazzoll believes that both precise interpretation and fortuity are equivalent elements of creating music. Therefore the idea of “arrhythmic perfection” has nothing to do with chaos; it is not a denial of rhythm, or harmony, but a part of music, that we do not yet comprehend nor notice. He uses diagrams for music notation. ____________________________________________________________ ______ As an artist he takes part in numerous performances and events; an instance of such is the Diffusion Ensemble, which he founded with Robert Knuth – a group that gathers various performing and improvisational artists. While performing Mazzoll often makes use of peculiar objects (for example spectacle – cases) to attain a desired sound. During the last several years, Diffusion Ensemble performed in the Centre of Contemporary Art (Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski) in Warsaw, Petri Kirche in Leipzig, Teatr Wybrzeze in Gdansk, Gallery „Inner Spaces” in Poznan, Museum of Olsztyn, and Kunstraum Schwimbad in Dusseldorf. ____________________________________________________________ ______ The workshops conducted by Mazzoll, Knuth & Diffusion Ensemble sparked great interest. Common performances, exercises, speeches, exchange of thoughts and ideas opened up new artistic and para-artistic horizons, possibilities of creation and self-creation for the students.___________________________________________________ _______________ During his career Mazzoll played with the best Polish, European and American rock and jazz musicians, with such stars as Django Bates, Alfred Harth, Lasse Lindgren, Vytas Labutis, Peter Weniger, Bill Laswell, Per Goidschmidt, Jan Bengston, Nils Landgren, Kjeld Ipsen, Axel Windfeid, Tomasz Stanko, Lars Danielsson, Andy Lumpp, Jeffrey Morgan, Josh Roseman, Tony Oxley, Peter Brotzmann, Marcin Krzyzanowski, Stein Erik Tafjord, Fred Frith, Mark Stewart, Jon Dobie, Jukka Perko, Peter Kowald, Olga Szwajgier, Asaf Sirkis, Anthony Coleman, Elliot Sharp among them. In 1999 he played at Warsaw Summer Jazz Days along with John Zorn, Medeski Martin and Wood, and Pharoah Sanders. At Warsaw Summer Jazz Days in 2000 he performed as a guest with the Japanese formation Altered States with Kazuhisa Uchihashi. He also played as a support to “U3” and James Brown. In November 2005 Mazzoll played with Gendos and Sainkho Namtchylak as their special guest. ____________________________________________________________ ______ Mazzoll’s primary music formation is “Mazzoll & Arrhythmic Perfection”. The band performs new music penetrating the unexplored areas of arrhythmia, so its pulse and melodies cannot be compared to any styles known so far. The group plays Mazzoll’s compositions based on the theory of “arrhythmic perfection” which employs rhythmeloharmonic order of sounds, as well as interpretation, timing and space during performance. ____________________________________________________________ ______ Basing on starting and unique Mazzoll's composition and scales, the band not only explores the depths of experiments, but sometimes also reaches to the edge of embarrassment, creating still not known amalgam of music visions and shades. However, the band's music is not an eclectic fusion of various styles. “Mazzoll & Arrhythmic Perfection” creates music very easy to recognize, which could be compared to some existing tendencies like (according to performance of the tunes): trash jazz, acoustic techno, freak ballads, cage songs, freak rock, new city folk, presenting freedom of interpretation amidst boundaries of Mazzoll's ritch biography of sounds. At present he is the Art Manager of the “art depot” Festival in Gdansk, plays with young Polish band Plzmatikon and recently he's started recording a solo album and a tribute album to Bruce Lee.________________________________________________________ ____________I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4