𝒇.𝒊.𝒎.𝒎. is an initiative by Marta Grzywacz. A series of concerts during which an invited improviser creates music spontaneously, without prior sketches or preparations, together with a musical companion of their choice.

The programmatic assumption of the series is to emphasize the ethereality of music as such. Therefore, the improvised work that appears during the concerts is not recorded in any way, which makes it literally unique. Perhaps this real uniqueness of the event will mark the way we will listen to such one-time music.

𝑾𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒂̨𝒑𝒊𝒂̨:
𝑮𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑳𝒆𝒃𝒊𝒌 is a sound artist, improviser, composer, saxophonist, and curator active in the field of experimental, improvised, and intermedial music. He is the creator of the Sanatorium Dźwięku festival in Sokołowsko. His compositions, composed of sinusoidal waves, repetitive low frequencies, and oscillating vibrations, balance between minimalism and reductionism.

As a performer, he explores genres such as live electronics and electroacoustic improvisation, combining saxophones, electronics, and sound objects.

His installations and sound works explore phenomena such as psychoacoustics, disturbances in the perception of time, and the relationships between sound and architecture, using white noise, simple waves, feedback, and ambisonic sound, creating immersive experiences that redefine the boundaries of sound perception.

He has performed at: TPAM (Yokohama, JP), Rewire (The Hague, NL), CTM (Berlin, DE), Fiber Festival (Amsterdam, NL), TodaysArt Festival (The Hague, NL), MONOM (Berlin, DE), Biennale (Zagreb, HU), Tokyo Jazz (Tokyo, JP), Umbrella (Chicago, US), Experimental Intermedia (New York, USA), Bienalle Wro (Wrocław, PL), SuperDeluxe (Tokyo, JP), Fylkingen (Stockholm, SE).

He has collaborated with: Keith Rowe, Phil Minton, Ryoko Akama, Burkhard Beins, Paul Lovens, David Maranha, Peter Rehberg, Jérôme Noetinger, Zbigniew Karkowski, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Noid, Lucio Capece, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Aleksandra Słyż, Judith Hamann, and many others.

𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒋 𝑲𝒂𝒓𝒂ł𝒐𝒘 is a composer, pianist, improviser, educator. Doctor of musical arts. Since 2016, he has been teaching at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw at the Faculty of Composition and Theory of Music (since 2020 as an assistant professor). He is a graduate of this university in the composition class of Prof. Stanisław Moryto and piano with Prof. Bronisława Kawalla.

In the 2018/19 artistic season, he was included in the LPO Young Composers Programme, during which his composition was premiered by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Sir James MacMillan at the Southbank Centre in London. His works have been performed in Poland and abroad at concerts and festivals in the USA, Japan, Canada, England, Spain, Germany, Mexico, Bulgaria, France, Estonia, Kaliningrad, Australia, Italy, and Hungary. In 2023, he was one of the lecturers of the composition course during the Takefu International Music Festival in Japan.

A laureate of many national and international piano competitions, including those in Paris, Athens, and Warsaw. He is also a laureate of international and national composition competitions, e.g., in Katowice, Warsaw, Poznań, Miskolc (Hungary).

The connections between image and sound, how artistic thought can manifest in various ways within them, are one of his main creative interests. His artistic explorations also find expression in visual arts activities, such as photography, where he seeks to educate himself, developing skills under the guidance of professionals.

He has 10 monographic, chamber, and improvised albums to his credit. Among them are publications such as: There are some nebulae no eye can dispel (monographic album, Chopin University Press), metaopera De invitatione mortis (Chopin University Press) to the libretto by Maciej Papierski, Life & Beyond (DUX, duet with Małgorzata Wasiucionek-Potera) – all three were nominated for the Fryderyk phonographic award. Additionally, his works and interpretations have been released on dozens of albums by labels such as Ablaze Records (Australia-USA), DUX, Requiem Records, Chopin University Press, and the Chronicles of Warsaw Autumn.

He has collaborated with, among others, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra, NOSPR, the Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, and conductors such as: Sir James MacMillan, Bassem Akiki, Szymon Bywalec, Michał Klauza, José Maria Florêncio, Ewa Strusińska, Jakub Chrenowicz.

He has honed his piano, composition, and improvisation skills at master courses in Oxford, Barcelona, Montreal, Valencia, Bergen, Imola, Leipzig, and Duszniki-Zdrój under the guidance of masters such as: Beat Furrer, Joëlle Léandre, Dieter Ammann, Zygmunt Krauze, Stefano Gervasoni, Mikhail Vosskresensky, Boris Petrushansky, Arie Vardi, Gary Graffman.

He is a scholarship holder of the Minister of Science and Higher Education, the Pro Polonia Association (twice), and his home university. In 2014, he received the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Award, and in 2015, the prestigious 'Młoda Polska' scholarship.

🌟 The Contemporary Music Space Hashtag Lab is co-financed by the Capital City of Warsaw.