Marcin Pączkowski presents his first solo composition recital. The evening will feature pieces involving accelerometers and live computer music and will culminate with the performance of Marcin’s doctoral dissertation piece, Deep Decline.
Marcin is a composer, conductor, and digital artist, working with both traditional and electronic media. As a composer, he is focused on developing new ways of creating and performing computer music. His pieces involving real time gesture control using accelerometers have been performed at the Music of Today concert series in Seattle, Washington, Northwest Percussion Festival in Ashland, Oregon, and at the Audio Art festival in Kraków, Poland. As a conductor he is involved in performing new music and premiering new works. He is a conductor and co-director of Inverted Space, a Seattle-based new music collective. He is also a music director of the Evergreen Community Orchestra and co-founder of the contemporary chamber vocal ensemble Pogratulujmy Mrówkom. Marcin received his Masters’ degrees from the Academy of Music in Kraków, Poland (composition and conducting), and from University of Washington (composition). Currently he is a doctoral candidate in the Center for Digital Arts And Experimental Media (DXARTS). He was a grant recipient from Polish Institute of Music and Dance and from Lesser Poland Scholarship Foundation Sapere Auso.