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About Me

some trifles put together during the 3 years i lived in poland working on my urban design thesis. my wife to-be 6,000 miles away, i was lonely and bored so as a break from gridiron and cloverleaf i got a mic to make music with on my computer. living in a cramped communist housing block, miraculously engulfed by an adjacent forest (i've come to believe the forests in poland are magical), i made most of these recordings in the wee hours of night, my singing scarcely a whisper and hence a fragile falsetto. i can't say for sure if they reflect the state of my mind at the time or just the physical circumstances of their creation, but there's something unique about these recordings that i haven't been able to recreate since. hope you enjoy them.

-jacek

p.s.: the grey skies everything

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/18/2004
Band Members: 1.6 GHz sony vaio. philips MD150 vocal microphone. assorted software.
looking for some sort of keyboard instrument to join.
Influences: albert ayler, amm, luciano berio, john cage, pierre henry, liszt, gustav mahler, david mahler, messiaen, mouse on mars, my bloody valentine, poulenc, hans reichel, satie, scriabin, sonic youth, verlaines, anton webern, xenakis, m.i.m.e.o., mauricio kagel, ligeti (RIP), julián carrillo trujillo, bruno maderna, anton bruckner, black dice, jerome noetinger, george lewis, misha mengelberg, rebecca saunders, giancinto scelsi, hanna kulenty, louis andriessen, i-f, antena, earwig, lenny valentino, and always always chopin
Sounds Like: drunken marching bands, birdsong at night, train signals in the distance, empty churches, complete lack of irony
Type of Label: None