SOUNDS OF RAIN & ANIMALS: a conversation with Jakub Królikowski

A question arising from the three performances the Quartet has given in Poznań so far: the concert at Dragon club was close to what we associate with the free-impro scene: lots of energy, spontaneous inventiveness, and a fluctuating dramatic arc. A year later at Pies Andaluzyjski, however (apart for the encore) it was the exact…

COCONUT PALMS (conversation with Wojtek Jachna)

Let me begin – in your book I was interested in the fact that when you ask what mostly builds the effectiveness of music: form or articulation, only two musicians pointed out to you that these are simply two different things… Wojtek Waglewski and Rafał Gorzycki… Yes, and I would agree with them. When you…

ONE, ONE, ONE (conversation with Joanna Duda)

I’ll start with the fact that last year saw the premiere of Jagoda Szmytka’s piece written for the Kronos Quartet Means of transport. Between the string parts, there were samples imitating, as the title suggests, the sounds of the street, car horns, trams and so on… Listening to you today, I thought that the keyword…