Krzysztof Wolek

Krzysztof Wolek (b.1976) received his diploma in percussion from Fryderyk Chopin School of Music in Bytom, Poland, in 1994. Between 1994 and 1999, he studied composition with Edward Boguslawski at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where he received his M.A. Wolek worked as a lecturer in the same school during the academic year 1999-2000. The following year, he studied with Louis Andriessen, Martajn Padding, and Gilius van Bergeijk at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, Holland. He is currently working on his PH.D. at the University of Chicago and studies composition with Marta Ptaszynska and Shulamit Ran and computer music with Howard Sandroff. He has participated in several international courses for composers, where he studied with Louis Andriessen, Zygmund Krauze, and Roger Reynolds, among others. His pieces have been performed in Europe and in the US and broadcast by Polish and Australian Radio. Besides working on his PHD, Wolek is teaching computer music and composition as well as performing and organizing electronic music concerts.

Mobile Variations explores space as a composition element. I decided to avoid using prerecorded material in this piece and to create all the sounds from scratch, employing various synthesis techniques. This allowed me to study the very nature of sound, its various shapes and colors as well as the almost endless possibilities of technology. In the first half of the 20th century Edgare Varese said: I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm? I am extremely happy and exited to live in the time when his dream became reality.