Process Music...
Improvised Music: A Process for Healing and Creativi
Exploring the Art of Pure Improvisation in Music
28. April 8th, 2024 Tarnów
The Window Sill’s Secret
This synthetic window sill remnant, with its oblong chambers and rectangular cross-section, becomes a unique instrument for sound exploration. Requiring deep focus and sensitivity, the nearly 3-meter rectangular tube produces sound that changes with subtle shifts in concentration and projection. This process highlights the unique properties of synthetic sound chambers in music.”
P.S. My work on-site is complete! Off to Bratislava for the ‘SACRUM’ performance, then back home to Wrocław 🙂 Home sweet home.
27. March 24th, 2024 Tarnów
Emerging Tranquility
The creation of Emerging Tranquility brought a welcome relief. While coping with immunosuppressive drugs, I found comfort in this meditative improvisation. It embodies the essence of process music—a style that thrives on flow and evolution. Reflecting on last weekend’s Soulful Solace, I aimed to refine its clarity but instead discovered a new musical journey.
Working with the piano and the ‘Sitar Soundtrack Pad,’ what began as a simple adjustment evolved into a serene composition. The music unfolded effortlessly, becoming a calming experience—a true journey towards tranquility, both musically and personally.
Soulful Solace
26. March 16th, 2024 Tarnów
Dissonant Healing
I’m not sure if these sounds hold any listening value. Improvising them was my way of coping with the storm of energy tearing through me. I leaned into dissonance, letting it mirror the imbalance caused by the immunosuppressant.
I took two days off work because I didn’t feel right. On the third day, still under the drug’s effects, it twisted my mind and body, causing aches in places I didn’t know could hurt. Playing any instrument softens the edges—it’s the only thing that helps. So I had to play.
These musical fragments are glimpses. I’m unsure if they’re listenable or enjoyable. I’ll decide later if they stay or vanish.
25. March 7th, 2024 Tarnów
A Muffled...
Still in the small… town… the construction site… blue tape creating through my skills perfect line of life… dividing? connecting? Line that on the cardiac monitor shows no life. Makes me live even more in the moment… makes me be nowhere but there…the wall from which I can bounce back but if I literally do that, I will fall bad… The very tall walk. My legs are strong of wood lifts me up with ladder – this is the construction soloist.
24. March 6th, 2024 Tarnów
Doubt It...
This one word – “doubt” – explains everything.
These are purely improvisations…
23. March 2nd, 2024 Tarnów
Obscure
Saturday, after a week of the unknown—
a lonely togetherness, where body and mind drift.
Can I still play?
An instrument in my hands, yet no sound reaches—
joy, but not from creation.
In the moment—
it’s never easy when the world begs you
to choose a side, a falsehood,
splitting us all apart.
But then—
I pause,
listen to the silence within,
and from it, this arose.
22. February 26th, 2024
Unraveling
I’ve been practicing but haven’t recorded anything yet—nothing felt ready. Today, however, something emerged from my improvisation rehearsal, and this is just a small portion of it. I might add more later, or who knows what inspiration will bring.
21. February 14th, 2024
For this experience, I invite you to listen with closed eyes and headphones, letting the sound envelop you fully.
La Llorona by Ditte Berkeley
This time, I’m sharing a piece where a spontaneous impulse led me to add a touch of color, transforming the song. It’s a Spanish piece, beautifully performed by the incredible artist and singer Ditte Berkeley in the rehearsal space. She captured the raw, intimate moment on her mobile phone.
What you’ll hear is the version with my added color, followed by the untouched original recording. It’s a creation born purely from feeling and instinct.
Enjoy the journey.
20. January 31, 2024 - Tarnów
A Meditation
After working 9 hours a day at the construction site, I’ve been preparing for an upcoming performance in Bratislava, just five days away. I picked up the Bulgarian Kaval, an instrument that requires practice due to its lack of a mouthpiece. I began with my phone, creating a simple drone, then added a synthetic sound background before playing the Kaval. What started as practice shifted into a deep concentration on the sound and its timbre. In the end, the session became more of a meditation than a practice.
19. January 28, 2024 - An Imaginary Place
A confession?
It hit me so strongly that I had to speak to get it out of my system. I’m not a poet, but this time, I had to express myself.