Voice Act MUFF

The Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space is co-financed by the Cap­i­tal City of War­saw.
The media patron of the Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space is POLMIC​.PL and Dwój­ka Pol­skie Radio.

Anna Gadt
An impro­vis­ing jazz vocal­ist, singer, and com­pos­er, clas­si­cal­ly trained pianist. A rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Euro­pean jazz scene, com­bin­ing free impro­vi­sa­tion, clas­si­cal music, and con­tem­po­rary jazz. She has sev­en albums to her name. She has per­formed in France, Ger­many, Switzer­land, Latvia, Lithua­nia, and Slo­va­kia, among oth­er coun­tries. In Poland she has appeared at the Jazz Jam­boree, Jazz Juniors, Jazz Jan­tar, and Jazz nad Odrą fes­ti­vals, among oth­ers. Win­ner of the Grand Prix at the inter­na­tion­al Jazz Strug­gle com­pe­ti­tion for singing musi­cians (the award was pre­sent­ed by the jury pres­i­dent Bil­ly Harp­er). She is the leader of a quar­tet and the Renais­sance trio. She has col­lab­o­rat­ed with, among oth­ers, Markus Stock­hausen, Lib­er­ty Ell­man, and Paweł Myki­etyn. Three times nom­i­nat­ed for the Fry­deryk music award in the cat­e­gories of Debut, Artist, and Album of the Year.

Mar­ta J. Bogusławska
pianist, teacher, impro­vis­ing woman.

Natalia Kor­diak

Vocal­ist, impro­vis­er, com­pos­er, and edu­ca­tor. An artist nom­i­nat­ed for the Pol­ish Phono­graph­ic Acad­e­my’s “FRYDERYK 2020” award. An explor­ing artist who uses her own lan­guage of impro­vi­sa­tion. In music she val­ues the authen­tic­i­ty of dia­logue, being present, and cre­at­ing a space where the bound­ary between rea­son and mad­ness blurs and real­i­ty becomes abstrac­tion. Win­ner of inter­na­tion­al awards, leader of her own quin­tet with which she has released two albums for the Slo­vak label Hevhetia and for the Fun­dac­ja Słuchaj!, and a mem­ber of Voice Act. For sev­er­al years she has been trav­el­ling through Asia and Europe, per­form­ing, lead­ing work­shops, and tak­ing part in artist res­i­den­cies. She has per­formed at numer­ous music venues and fes­ti­vals in Poland — includ­ing Jazz Juniors, Jazz Jan­tar, Voicingers, and NOSPR — and abroad, includ­ing in the Nether­lands, Den­mark, France, the Czech Repub­lic, Latvia, Eng­land, India, Chi­na, and Viet­nam. In 2023 and 2024 she spent two semes­ters on an artist res­i­den­cy at Swarn­ab­hoo­mi Acad­e­my of Music in Chen­nai, India. For many years she col­lab­o­rat­ed with the Nation­al Phil­har­mon­ic in War­saw. Kor­diak also served as the coor­di­na­tor of the Pol­ish edi­tion of the Voicingers fes­ti­val and as co-organ­is­er of the inter­na­tion­al Jazzbus Show­case. In Novem­ber 2024, togeth­er with Piotr Orze­chows­ki and Kuba Więcek, she organ­ised the first edi­tion of the kxn­trst music fes­ti­val. A grad­u­ate of the “Bed­nars­ka” sec­ondary school and the Karol Szy­manows­ki Acad­e­my of Music in Katow­ice, where she obtained both her bach­e­lor’s and mas­ter’s degrees. She is cur­rent­ly a doc­tor­al stu­dent at the Doc­tor­al School of the Graży­na and Kiejs­tut Bacewicz Acad­e­my of Music in Łódź.

Gosia Zaga­jew­s­ka

Poet and vocal­ist. She has per­formed at numer­ous fes­ti­vals, includ­ing: Krakows­ka Jesień Jaz­zowa, Warsza­wskie Sana­to­ri­um Dźwięku, For­t­al­ic­je, ECLAT Fes­ti­val, Lodžie World­fest, Inne Brzmienia, Eth­niesy, Noc Kul­tu­ry in Konin, and Spon­ta­neous Music Fes­ti­val. Tule­je, the ensem­ble she co-cre­ates with dou­ble bassist Ksaw­ery Wój­cińs­ki and drum­mer Wojtek Kurek, is a new and intrigu­ing project explor­ing the bor­der­lands of tra­di­tion­al music, impro­vi­sa­tion, and poet­ry, cre­at­ing min­i­mal­ist arrange­ments based on folk melodies from east­ern Wielkopol­s­ka and con­tem­po­rary texts. She has col­lab­o­rat­ed with Ksaw­ery Wój­cińs­ki on mul­ti­ple occa­sions, includ­ing with­in his own series “Muzy­czne DNA mojego domu. Trasa kon­cer­towa do wewnątrz.”, and in a joint com­po­si­tion based on Fry­deryk Chopin’s E minor pre­lude, enti­tled “28”. In 2022 she received a schol­ar­ship from the Mar­shal of Wielkopol­s­ka and led a series of her own vocal impro­vi­sa­tion work­shops enti­tled “Głosowanie”. She has pub­lished in “biB­Liote­ka”, “KONTENT”, “Dro­bi­az­gi”, “Tlen Lit­er­ac­ki”, “Strona Czyn­na”, and in the anthol­o­gy “Głód” pub­lished by the Insty­tut Lit­er­atu­ry. In Novem­ber 2023, her debut poet­ry col­lec­tion “Wyro­biska” was pub­lished by SPP Odd­zi­ał w Łodzi.