On the A-side of Responses to the Master, the vinyl record published by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute on the 87th anniversary of Krzysztof Penderecki's birthday, we will hear a jazz-electronic score to the above-mentioned Ussorowski film written by the composer in 1964. Unusual instruments (vibraphone, drums, double bass, church organ, piano and wind instruments) are processed with a freely shaped electronic layer. Eugeniusz Rudnik was responsible for the realisation of this work.
On the album’s B-side, we will find compositions cultivated from seeds left behind by Krzysztof Penderecki, which is to say, works created by Paweł Romańczuk, Robert Piotrowicz, and the Skalpel duo.
In Tubu Fon, Paweł Romańczuk, a Wrocław-based composer and instrument maker, refers back to music from The Saragossa Manuscript by Wojciech Jerzy Has and Seven Gates of Jerusalem, i.e. Symphony No. 7 which Penderecki composed on the 3000th anniversary of the founding of Jerusalem, where the first temple was located. Romańczuk says:
On the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the Wrocław Feature Film Studio, together with the Małe Instrumenty band, I prepared a kind of mix of fragments of music from Wojciech Jerzy Has' film. In turn, the instrument introduced by Krzysztof Penderecki has appeared many times in my own projects. These two elements are combined freely in the piece: the sound of the Jerusalem tubaphone meets the split rhythm inspired by ‘The Manuscript’.