Piotr Kurek
Piotr Kurek is a composer and musician associated with the Warsaw experimental music scene; his wildly colorful body of work in progressive electronic music includes work for film, theatre and leading experimental institutions. Kurek started his career as one half of the breakcore duo Ślepcy, achieving some notoriety in the early 2000s; now, his hypnotic approach employs a dazzlingly vivid palette that takes cues from exotica, Polish folk music, Baroque composition and Glassian post-minimalism, weaving complex textures that are often centered around processed human voices. He's performed at CTM, OFF Festival and Unsound, toured Europe extensively and took up residencies at Stockholm's EMS and South Korea's Gyeonggi Creation Center; in addition to work under his own name, he made outsider house music as Heroiny and collaborates with noted drummer Hubert Zemler as Piętnastka. His solo discography currently includes nine albums, including releases for Edições CN and Mondoj – his most recent solo work is 2023's Smartwoods, a sprawling, evolving chamber jazz work recorded with harpist Anna Pašic, reed player Tomasz Duda and bassist Wojtek Traczyk, released on Unsound.
About Piotr Kurek
Piotr Kurek is a composer and musician associated with the Warsaw experimental music scene; his wildly colorful body of work in progressive electronic music includes work for film, theatre and leading experimental institutions. Kurek started his career as one half of the breakcore duo Ślepcy, achieving some notoriety in the early 2000s; now, his hypnotic approach employs a dazzlingly vivid palette that takes cues from exotica, Polish folk music, Baroque composition and Glassian post-minimalism, weaving complex textures that are often centered around processed human voices. He's performed at CTM, OFF Festival and Unsound, toured Europe extensively and took up residencies at Stockholm's EMS and South Korea's Gyeonggi Creation Center; in addition to work under his own name, he made outsider house music as Heroiny and collaborates with noted drummer Hubert Zemler as Piętnastka. His solo discography currently includes nine albums, including releases for Edições CN and Mondoj – his most recent solo work is 2023's Smartwoods, a sprawling, evolving chamber jazz work recorded with harpist Anna Pašic, reed player Tomasz Duda and bassist Wojtek Traczyk, released on Unsound.