Krzysztof Topolski
Electroacoustic improviser, drummer, field recordist & curator
Krzysztof Topolski is an electroacoustic improviser, author of sound-art projects, drummer, field recordist, curator. Key concepts in his work are noise and soundscape. He explores the area of percussion and live electronics, improvisational, and electroacoustic music. He composes with the use of computers, creates interactive sound installations, organizes presentations, and lectures on contemporary music and sound art, and also runs workshops.
He is a member of PSeME (Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music). In 2009, together with Mariusz Waras, he created installation Fabryka (Factory) in CSW “Znaki Czasu” (Signs of Time) in Toruń and also presented the piece Folk Science as a part of Pandemonium project in AC Institute [Direct Chapel] in New York. He was awarded a scholarship of Museums Quartier in Vienna, artist-in-residence program (2004), Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2007/2010), CCA “Kronika’, Bytom (2006) and Visegrad Fund residence program at Skolska 28 Gallery, Prague (2011). Took part in many festivals: Unsound, Line_in : Line_out, Wien Modern ’03 , Stimul ’05, Echofluxx ’11, Prague, Jazz and Experimental Music from Poland, ’11, London.
