Marcin Masecki at his piano set in the courtyard of the building, home to the House of Culture Art Workshops Downtown, London, 12 August 2010, photo: Marek Dusza
The series of concerts will kick off with Masecki's performance and continue throughout October 2014. Polish artists exploring the borders between different musical genres will perform within the framework of six presentations. Alongside Masecki, other musicians throughout the project will include Soniamiki, Drekoty, Mikrokolektyw, Szaza , Paula & Karol.
Marcin Masecki has become one of the most creative and original musicians of the new generation, recording and performing as a member of a jazz ensemble, but also as a performer of avant-garde and pop music. He has founded and co-founded a number of successful musical projects and groups over the first decade of the 21st Century. In addition to his solo performances, he has been involved in the creation of numerous musical projects which combined jazz improvisation with an avant-garde concept: Telewizor, Papierosy, TAQ, Wczasowicz Paweł or the trio Masecki/Rogiński/Moretti.
Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757) was an Italian composer who worked in Rome and Madrid; he was a peer of the famous Johann Sebastian Bach. He wrote in a lighter, sunnier style than Bach and left an impressive oeuvre, including the stunning 555 harpsichord sonatas.
Marcin Masecki explains working on Scarlatti’s sonatas as:
“I often experienced moments in which the intellectual pressure building up inside of me suddenly found a way out, expoloding in a flame of unconditional deconstruction of a given phrase and carefree improvisation. Soon afterwards I would return to the original text. One time I ‘heard’ one of those outbursts. I noticed and registered it, and then it became a musical event. I realized it could carry a certain value, my natural method of merging two worlds: classical and jazz. The deconstructions related to the text, resulted from it, did not constitute some artificial filters, but grew from the original. They were, in a sense, an extension of Scarlatti’s thought process.”
More on Polish Jazz in Turkey throughout 2014
Culture.pl presents photos from the event on 26 March 2014: