Wolfram

May 11, 2006





*Name: Wolfram

*Are there any additional names used to describe this project: No

*Do you use a pseudonym? Wolfram

*Members: Dominik Kowalczyk

*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: Digitally constructed compositions basing on digitally deconstructed samples/recordings

*Another genre descriptor: Nope.

*Location: Warsaw, Poland

*Original Location: Warsaw, Poland

*What is your creative/artistic background: All started in the end of 80's (87 or 88) when I was involved in some mail-art exchanges. These days I've made some 12 cassettes with sound collages basing as a source mainly on radio and tv broadcasts. All of them were made in really primitive analogue way, using several cassette decks, and home-made delay. Each tape was unique, containing hand made graphics and inserts. And all of them were lost or sent to other people in mail-art actions.

After some break, in the beginning of 90's (1991-3) I was equipped with an old and malfuncional Weltmeister electric organs, made in former GDR (East Germany), Casio SK-1, Roland TR-505, Boss Guitar Delay DS-1, some microphones and cassette decks. I was trying to find some ideas of sound which succeeded only partially ;-)

Later on, around 1996 i was collaborating shortly with Marcelo, leader of Morris Generativ (an industrial-pop group), and these were my first stage appearances. It resulted with one limited edition cassette "Grupa PC" (The PC Group)

From the end of 1996 I was co-funding Neurobot Elektrozine (together with Jacek Staniszewski) neurobot.art.pl and less than two years later it was transformed into the trio (after third member: Artur Kozdrowski, joined) playing improvised noise music. Neurobot as a band was active till July 2003, playing total 23 concerts in Poland, Germany and Austria. Neurobot released 3 CD, the fourth is still planned

From year 2000 I play solo, in incidental line-ups, and recently with my new group Komora A. I released 6 solo records (mainly CDRs) with ambient and noise music + a bunch of exclusive tracks for compilations. My first release from 2000 "Projekt Drei" consisted of three 3" CDRs representing three fields of my interest these days: plunderphonics, techno, and noise. Further albums oscillated between ambient and noise but I was still thinking about next plunderphonic thing, collecting weird music, samples and ideas. It's a lot of work, but I hope to finish it by the end of the year.

*Born: 1969, Warsaw, Poland

*Motivations: Because I really need and want to do it. It gives me satisfaction. It's less than regular work and more than a hobby.

*Philosophy: No philosophy or ideology

*How would you like to be remembered: Like a guy who is not giving a sh*t

*Web address: wolfram.art.pl