Wojciech Błażejczyk

Com­pos­er, gui­tarist, sound design­er. He grad­u­at­ed in com­po­si­tion from the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­si­ty of Music in War­saw in the class of Pro­fes­sor Zyg­munt Krauze, sound direc­tion from the same uni­ver­si­ty in the class of Pro­fes­sor Andrzej Lupa, and Jour­nal­ism and Polit­i­cal Sci­ence from the Uni­ver­si­ty of War­saw. He is an assis­tant pro­fes­sor at the Depart­ment of Com­po­si­tion, Con­duct­ing, and Music The­o­ry at the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­si­ty of Music, and the head of the Elec­tron­ic and Com­put­er Music Studio.

His works have been per­formed at numer­ous fes­ti­vals in Poland and abroad, includ­ing New Music Con­certs (Toron­to), Warsza­wska Jesień, Pol­ish Mod­ern: New Direc­tions in Pol­ish Music Since 1945 (New York), Viseg­rad Por­traits, Musi­ca Mod­er­na, Musi­ca Elec­tron­i­ca Nova, Musi­ca Poloni­ca Nova, Poz­nańs­ka Wios­na Muzy­cz­na, and Warsza­wskie Spotka­nia Muzy­czne, AudioArt, Afekt Fes­ti­val, by ensem­bles such as Musik­Fab­rik, Pol­ish Radio Orches­tra, Lucilin, Gorzów Phil­har­mon­ic, New Music Con­certs Ensem­ble, Wratislavia Orches­tra, Radom Cham­ber Orches­tra, Kwadro­fonik, Sin­fo­nia Iuven­tus, and Hash­tag Ensemble.

In the 2014/15 sea­son, he was the com­pos­er-in-res­i­dence at the Prof. Jan Szy­roc­ki Aca­d­e­m­ic Choir of the West Pomeran­ian Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy in Szczecin as part of the IMIT pro­gram. He cre­ates both acoustic and elec­troa­coustic music. He has com­posed music for 18 the­atri­cal per­for­mances, 12 doc­u­men­tary and short films, the video game Hard Reset, and 2 audiobooks.

He is a lau­re­ate of sev­er­al awards in com­po­si­tion com­pe­ti­tions, includ­ing the 3rd prize in the 1st Inter­na­tion­al Krzysztof Pen­derec­ki Com­po­si­tion Com­pe­ti­tion Arbore­tum, the 1st prize in the 52nd Tadeusz Baird Young Com­posers Com­pe­ti­tion (2011), and the 2nd prize in the 51st Tadeusz Baird Young Com­posers Com­pe­ti­tion (2010). His work War­saw Music was a final­ist in the Euro­pean Broad­cast­ing Union (EBU) Palm Ars Acus­ti­ca 2016 com­pe­ti­tion. In 2013, he par­tic­i­pat­ed in the IRCAM Forum Work­shops in Paris, and in 2017, he took part in the Com­pos­er Col­lid­er pro­gram with the Musik­Fab­rik ensem­ble. He has released four mono­graph­ic albums: Muzy­ka strun (Chopin Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 2022), Gen­er­al The­o­ry of Rel­a­tiv­i­ty(2021, KAIROS), Trash Music (Requiem Records, 2018), and Loopow­iz­a­c­je (2013, For Tune), as well as sev­er­al albums with impro­vised music (with Hash­tag Ensem­ble and The Intu­ition Orchestra).

Woj­ciech Błaże­jczyk is also an active gui­tarist. He per­forms new and impro­vised music on elec­tric gui­tar and with the use of elec­tron­ics, as well as objec­to­phones – instru­ments he has cre­at­ed him­self (these are every­day objects whose sounds are processed live). He has per­formed at fes­ti­vals such as War­saw Autumn, Sacrum Pro­fanum, Musi­ca Poloni­ca Nova, Musi­ca Elec­tron­i­ca Nova, AdLi­bi­tum, Musi­ca Mod­er­na, Audio Art, Ankun­ft: Neue Musik, Olym­pus Jazz Fes­ti­val, Viseg­rad Por­traits, Meri­di­en, and Poz­nań Spring. He per­forms with the con­tem­po­rary music ensem­ble Hash­tag Ensem­ble. He also plays impro­vised music (hav­ing per­formed, among oth­ers, with Kawalerowie Błot­ni, Elec­tro­n­is­ches Gluck, Adam Pierończyk, Aga­ta Zubel, Krzysztof Knit­tel, and Joëlle Léan­dre). He co-cre­ates the impro­vis­ing trio Sonofre­nia and the ensem­ble Niemy Movie, which per­forms live music for silent films.

As a sound direc­tor, he spe­cial­izes in record­ing and sound pro­jec­tion at new music con­certs, as well as cre­at­ing sound design for films. He has con­duct­ed work­shops on elec­troa­coustic music at the Inter­na­tion­al Com­po­si­tion Course Syn­the­sis in Radziejow­ice. He also runs work­shops for chil­dren relat­ed to elec­troa­coustic music and the use of objects in music.