Grzegorz Marciniak, a music maker worth following. And I have been doing so since 2006. That was when I first saw and heard his work performed in The Hague by the then Woof collective. I made contact, it clicked. In 2007 Picca at premiere. A work Marciniak wrote for yours truly (recorder solo). And also at my most recent experience, February 2016, he again managed to create an expectant vibe create. Taking me. Where exactly does that put him?
He pays attention to the whole playing floor, tickling the eye, without making theatre. The focus is always on the music. He plays with the space and its acoustics, working with instrumentalists who also dare to open their mouths on stage. He creates a loose, somewhat circus-like atmosphere, in which a lot is possible. And especially does sometimes incomprehensible things that come in. As I experienced again in Korzo in February.
Most of the work played that evening was made for Marciniak and his companions. From a duet between piano and electronics - centred on the acoustic - by Juan Luis Montoro Santo, to Which Art Can't Make And Which Art Can Be Art Which Can't Be Art from Cornelis de Bondt, which will make you experience your daily toothbrushing ritual differently afterwards.
Omega Impact: not a band, ensemble or group, but a 'troupe' or 'bande' of music makers who demand something from the listener: an open (audio) sight during their performance.
You dive in and they pull you along. Something that unfortunately didn't work all the time in February. Hopefully, in the future, these musicians will take (or get?) more time to become a little less ragged and more finely tuned. So that as a listener, whether you like it or not, you get sucked in and get new musical images, delays, discoveries, answers ánd questions.
Go see and listen to what Omega Impact sounds like on 29 March in Splendor, Amsterdam.
A suivre!
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