Audio essay on how electricity, field, media in space shape the audiosphere.
+ May 15, 1:00 PM, WRO Art Center –> National Forum of Music – sound walk
The project centers around the city and the experience of listening to the surrounding environment – but not the obvious city with its easily recognizable landscape. The artist delves into the barely audible zones: electrical discharges, humming fans, shop window displays, and ATMs.
Electricity has become the skin of the 21st-century city. It is difficult to identify these phenomena in everyday life, as their sounds resemble a cloud that hovers above the city, forming a sonic backdrop to daily existence. Contemporary technology supports these explorations.
Marcin Dymiter operates in electronics, field recording, and improvised music. He creates sound installations, radio plays, and music for films, theater performances, exhibitions, and public spaces. He is the creator of the Field Notes project. He leads sound workshops and initiatives introducing the idea of field recording. He performs in projects such as emiter, niski szum, ZEMITER, PICA PICA, and other ephemeral formations. He is the author of Notatki z terenu (Field Notes, 2021) and Maszyny do ciszy (Silence Machines, 2023). He was twice nominated (in 2022 and 2024) for the Gdynia Literary Prize. He collaborates with Dwutygodnik, an online cultural magazine.
In 2020, he was invited to participate in the global sound art exhibition “Audiosphere. Sound Experimentation 1980–2020,” held at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. As an independent curator, he is connected with festivals such as CONTROL ROOM (Gdańsk) and Wydźwięki/Resonances (Galeria El, Elbląg). Together with Marcin Barski, he co-conceived and curated “Polish Soundscapes,” the first Polish exhibition dedicated to the phenomenon of field recording. He is also a music producer. A listener and participant in music and improvisation workshops in Poland and abroad, he has studied under Le Quan Ninh, Andrew Sharpley, John Butcher, Robin Minard, and Wolfgang Fuchs. He was a grantee of the Berlin University of the Arts and a finalist in the Netmage International Multimedia Festival in Bologna. He has received scholarships from the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, the Cultural Scholarship of the City of Gdańsk, and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2011), as well as from the Visegrad Fund (2012, 2023). He also collaborates with the Quiet Parks International Foundation. He is a member of the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music.