PENTRAL A performance by Polish electro-acoustic musician Jacaszek July 21, 2013 Automata
Michal Jacaszek performed a live version of his album, Pentral, bringing his amazing aural interpretations of vast gothic churches to the intimate quarters of Automata.
PENTRAL is an attempt to describe a gothic church interior by means of sounds. A temple owes its special atmosphere not only to visual elements but also to characteristic acoustics – reverb, enhancing and prolonging a slightest whisper into infinity. I spent several days in three Gdansk historic churches (Oliwa Cathedral, St. Nicolas’ church, St. Mary’s Basilica) recording chanting, organs, and also a broad spectrum of accidental noises. Studio work and also the atmosphere of melody and arrangements were subordinate to the idea of portraying the church as a place filled with distant mysteries, a huge music instrument. - Jacaszek
Michal Jacaszek creates electroacoustic music that combines electronically prepared sounds with acoustic instruments. Composer of soundtracks and theatre music. He is a co-curator of C3 Festival /Club Contemporary Classical. Jacaszek received the Grand Prix at ”Dwa Teatry” Festival for music composed for the play ”Golgota Wrocławska” directed by Jan Komasa. He wrote music for two plays directed by Michał Siegoczyński: ”2084” and "SHOWTIME". He also created music for "There is no others, there is only us” a film directed by Marc Silver, as well as for ”Nigdy nie wrocisz do domu” (”You will never come back home”) a documentary movie by Jolanta Krysowata. His last work was the soundtrack for "Sala samobojcow” (Suicide’s Room) cinema movie directed by Jan Komasa.
