TEONIKI ROŻYNEK

Teoniki Rożynek (born in 1991) is a composer of contemporary, theater and film music. She places particular emphasis on electronic sound design and experiments with defects and audience perception. She performs live – nowadays with a computer, formerly with a violin.

Teoniki Rożynek (born 1991) graduated from Composition at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Her music seems to stem from her youthful experience of playing the violin and old synthesisers: the former allows the shaping of sound freely and changing it over time; the latter offers various, sometimes accidental, deformations and defects. The ‘Hackomposer’ is greatly inspired by similar flawed sounds (Palinopsia) and thinks in terms of sound layers and their flows (Halocline II). Her early electro-acoustic pieces have a distinctly psychedelic or narrative character (T.R.I.P.), and Rożynek remained faithful to the concept of sound design (bol) outlined in them. It is based on carefully processed and edited samples, film-like contrasts and powerful bass on the one hand and the tiniest ASMR sounds on the other (the most satisfying music). The dialogue between real and virtual instruments (bilokacja) and the electronics surrounding them (deep-frozen_2/17) also play an important role.

Although the composer declares that she prefers to listen to music on headphones, she has recently performed live more and more frequently, from behind the computer, as was the case at the festival in Sokołowsko, the Warsaw Autumn festival, and the Unsound Festival etc.

In an interview for Glissando, Rożynek explains:

Errors are my weird musical obsession. A recording of a flute in which someone makes a mistake or you hear a grunt in the background has much greater value to me than a studio recording in which the flute sounds perfect. A mistake can create an additional layer which is much more interesting. Natural deficiencies, a captured moment – that seems insanely fascinating! From this you can sculpt the macro part, an error can completely change the course of a work. A real error at the micro-level can affect the whole structure.

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Teoniki travels from Warsaw.