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Kartacz

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From "Kartacz" album (CD, Bołt Records, 2014). Music dedicated to Polish Radio Experimental Studio.
If I were to look at the ideas promoted by the Experimental Studio against Małe Instrumenty's practices, I would refer to the concept of music which is
- for certain reasons - "impossible".
Studio electronic productions, preparing instruments, using and editing tapes - all those practices once broadened the perspectives of the art of sound.
However, the "unreachable" sound combinations produced by Małe Instrumenty could also be considered as an attempt to overcome the "impossibility" in music.
However, both cases are differently time-oriented.
The Experimental Studio practitioners were mostly interested in using the newest technologies and exploring a sphere of sounds which do not exist
in the music tradition. Within Małe Instrumenty, I mainly search for archaisms which provide the "real sound" with more space and opportunities
of functioning.
Why is the album and the song entitled Kartacz (which literally means "a canister-shot")? The military rhetorics has always influenced different
ways various artistic areas were developing. Writing these words shortly before the 100th anniversary of the break of the World War I,
I refer to a metaphor of a missile as a tool helping to shape the structure of a music composition. I also reach for acoustic peculiarities
linked with the war and the collage of specific lines from Polish war films.

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from Kartacz, released February 1, 2014

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Male Instrumenty Wrocław, Poland

Małe Instrumenty (Small Instruments) are a band exploring new sounds using a wide array of unusal instruments. The group was started by Pawel Romanczuk in 2006, Małe Instrumenty record the music for films, broadcasts, audiobooks.

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