JACASZEK

Composer, producer and sound artist. He performs and records under the moniker Jacaszek. He creates illustrative music combining electronically prepared sounds with acoustic instruments (several solo albums). He also works with other artists, in a variety of media including video, visual art, choreography and photography. He composes movie scores for film and theatre and is member of Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music.
Michał travels from Gdańsk, Poland.

For booking inquiries please contact Joanna John / hello@kissthefrog.no

Working as a sound engineer for the University of Toruń – Radio Sfera (1997-2003), he began his experiments with electronically-generated sound. This led him to numerous broadcasts which included his music, and lyrics read by local poets. In the late ’90s, he staged his first live performances.

We take care of his solo projects and the following collaborations:
Jacaszek/Podpora/Kohyt
Auksodrone
Catalogue of Trees

His last solo album Gardenia was released on Touch Records in 2020.
“GARDENIA is an existing land located at the Limpopo province of South Africa, right at the border with Botswana. The place’s real name is Mmabolela and it’s a private nature reserve covering 6500ha of subtropical savanna and part of Limpopo River. In November 2019 I had a chance to visit the location and participate in an annual residency for composers and sound artists called ‘Sonic Mmabolela’, initiated and curated by Francisco López. We lived in an isolated property in the middle of savanna having a unique opportunity to exist in undisturbed touch with the African wilderness. All the natural sounds later used to create Gardenia were captured there — during longtime recording sessions over the virgin interior of Mmabolela Reserve. The album’s field recording content was selected from several hours of birdsong, calls of frogs, insect noises, sounds of trees, bushes, grass as well as non-living natural elements like stones or shells. These field recordings were later digitally processed and used as part of 9 musical arrangements.However the recording sources and the location of Gardenia is defined, it was not my intention to document a South African natural soundscape nor create any other kind of strict concept album.All I do in my work is an affirmation of beauty hidden in various aspects of the Creation.”
– Michał Jacaszek

Jacaszek has performed in China, United States, Canada, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Sweden, Slovakia, Germany, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Russia, as well as at the most important festivals in Poland: Off Festival, Tauron Nowa Muzyka, Unsound Festival, Astigmatic, Festiwal Ambientalny, Heineken Opener Festival, and Męskie Granie.

Awards :
International Documentary Association Award, Los Angeles USA  BEST ORGINAL SCORE
The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative –  nomination
Grand Prix at New Tradition Festival (with Vocal Varshe)
Golden Violin for best instrumentalist at New Tradition Festival 2018
International Film Award “East-West. Golden Arc” Moscow – BEST ORGINAL SCORE (nomination)
EFTA Estonian Film and TV Award  – BEST ORGINAL SCORE
Two Theatres Grand Prix Award Sopot PL – BEST ORGINAL SCORE
Minsk International Film Festival “Listapad” Minsk BY –BEST ORGINAL SCORE
Be There! Corfu Animation Film Festival GR -” – BEST ORGINAL SCORE
Animation Forum Cairo Kair EGY („Lost Senses – honour mention)
Giffoni Valle Piana IT („Sucide Room” – BEST ORGINAL SCORE