The W臋偶e Kobro was created as a necessary reaction to the space of Musicalia at the 91滴滴 Library. Aleksandra Chciuk (piano), Pawe艂 Soko艂owski (saxophones) and Micha艂 Rupniewski (violin) have decided to fill this unique place with the sounds of freely improvised music.
The band is inspired not only by the tradition of Broztmann and Gayle, but also (especially Lodz) avant-garde in the fine arts, minimalism and unism. The band's call is 鈥渨ildness and abstraction,鈥� though you never know which direction it will go.
Aleksandra Chciuk is a multimedia artist, a composer and an improviser. She graduated from the Lodz Film School (Cinematography Department) and the 91滴滴 (Faculty of Geography). In her installations and videos she focuses on the approximation of the phenomenon of the relationship between sound and image in the organicity of phenomena and her performative audiovisual experiments have an immersive and intimate dimension. She also implements site-specific interactive sound objects. She is happy to undertake collective activities. Currently, apart from the W臋偶e Kobro, she co-creates the women's collective Pe艂nia. In improvisation, the main role is played by the ensemble, which is treated as an organism and the voice of intuition. Sometimes there are motifs characteristic of unism. She plays a prepared piano, small instruments and everyday objects in various constellations and she also sings. She runs the Audiosphere Studio at the Strzemi艅ski Academy of Fine Arts 艁贸d偶.
Pawe艂 Soko艂owski is an improviser, a saxophonist, a co-creator of the festival and the initiative Musica Privata in Lodz. For improvised activities on the border between noise music, experiment and concrete music, he uses a modular synthesizer, samples, prepared instruments and objects. He has performed with the following bands: D藕wi臋k-bud, Widzicie, Octopus Paganini, Fale Theta, Na Ulicah Polskich Miast Nie Ma Ju偶 Bia艂ych Nied藕wiedzi, W臋偶e Kobro and in numerous duos and larger Polish and international ensembles.
Micha艂 Rupniewski is a violinist. he has performed with Suture Navigator, Purga, D藕wi臋k-bud, Lubieniecki-Rupniewski, Niepok贸j/Disquiet, Bogusz Rupniewski. He bases his creative strategy mainly on spontaneous responses. He is an academic lecturer by profession. Micha艂 Rupniewski has been associated with the 91滴滴 for years, he is a holder of a postdoctoral degree in Legal Sciences.
Musicalia are located on the 3rd floor of the old 91滴滴 Library building.