TEIL 2
Franciszek Araszkiewicz
(audio live performance, visuals)

Franciszek Araszkiewicz – electronic devices
Beata Malinowska-Petelenz and Franciszek Araszkiewicz – video production

Neurocity – for electronics and video In this piece, live-electronics are governed by iPad, electromagnetic fields converter and brainwaves scanned in real-time. Electrodes of encephalograph are put on the performer’s head in order to capture amplitudes of brainwaves on eight frequency layers in real-time, being subject to further processing and governing sound phenomena. These brainwaves (electric impulses in the brain) are responsible for mental states such as relaxation (alpha waves), concentration (beta waves) or rapid reactions (gamma waves), among others. Conscious alterations of these mental states allow performer to transform the sound. In this piece, measurements of brainwave activity is being displayed to the audiences in graphic form as well. The relation between brain activity and consciousness in one of the most mysterious and important questions in science. Many authors, including Nobel-Prize laureate Sir Roger Penrose suggest, that consciousness may be governed by non-algorithmic phenomena (therefore, can not be described within the framework of XX century physics – quantum mechanics and general relativity). Creating music by brainwave activity scanned in real-time allows the performer and audiences to experience this mysterious relation in a very special, non-verbal manner.

In this piece, an analogy between the brain (or rather the structure of data of scanned brain) and the city is the core idea for investigating sounds governed by brainwaves in real-time. A journey through imaginary streets, squares, tunnels; crowded or completely empty. The analogy determines the form of the piece, music material controlled in real-time as well as the video layer created together with Beata Malinowska-Petelenz.

FRANCISZEK ARASZKIEWICZ
composer and sound installation artist, laureate of, a.o. Avenir Grant (Arnold Schoenberg Center), artisrt-in-residence in MuseumsQuartier, Vienna. His instrumental and electroacoustic works were awarded in numerous competitions (1st prize ex aequo during the 11th Tadeusz Ochlewski Competition organized by PWM Edition in 2013, for a piece Monster Group Number for soprano and electronics; 1st prize at the international Concorso di Composizione Pianistica 2014 Giorgio e Aurora Giovanni Fondazione for his work Study of Chaos for piano for four hands, 3rd Dimitri Shoskakovich Competition Lviv 2021 for Enchevetrement Saint-Ambroise for piano, violin, viola and cello et al.) In 2019 he obtained a doctoral degree at his alma mater – Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow, in music arts.
www.araszkiewicz.fr

BEATA MALINOWSKA-PETELENZ
idrawings and paintings
www.instagram.com/beatamalinowskapetelenz/