In 1959, Józef Patkowski offered to hold a seminar for several different artistic circles devoted to the new possibilities of a modern radio station. The list of participants of this historic seminar included, for instance, Augustyn Bloch, Michał Bristiger, Andrzej Dobrowolski, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Wojciech Kilar, Włodzimierz Kotoński, Andrzej Koszewski, Jerzy Lefeld, Witold Lutosławski, Andrzej Markowski, Tadeusz Natanson, Zbigniew Rudziński, Krzysztof Penderecki, Bolesław Szabelski, Witold Szalonek, Józef Świder, Bolesław Urbański, Zbigniew Wiszniewski, Henryk Schiller, as well as theatre people, such as Aleksander Bardini, Adam Hanuszkiewicz, Janusz Warmiński, Jacek Woszczerowicz, Jan Świderski and Halina Mikołajska.
Among the composers invited to the seminar there was a special guest from Italy, Franco Evangelisti, who would visit the studio again later on, and who became known as a daring enthusiast of experimental achievements, as in his leisure time he would jump off the Poniatowski Bridge and swim with the current, only coming out of the river around the Gdańsk Bridge.
The thematic range of the lectures included the physical structure of sound, the psychology of hearing, recording techniques, the rules of sound composition and transformation. They listened to musique concrète and electronic music. Thanks to the fact that the studio was under the direct authority of Sokorski, Patkowski could soon invite further guests from abroad, who would eventually become the institution’s resident composers, creating their works there or simply experimenting.
An autonomous profile
All that served to reinforce the studio’s position as a place from which more and more works, both illustrative and autonomous, were commissioned and where they were created. For years, it was the only place where composers had a well-equipped atelier and a professional sound engineer at their disposal.