In the beginning there was sound.

photos by @marta_kowalska_fotografia / 2026 / Poland

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My great love for music, combined with my love for beauty and design, eventually turned into a project that I am still developing.

In 2016, I designed and created my first musical sculpture – a sound installation. The MikroTonal Project was created as a tribute to the original ethnic instruments that our ancestors made from what they found in nature, discovering sounds in existing objects, probably relying on their intuitive feelings, as the musical scale was described and named by humans much later. Commonly used raw materials were bones, stones and wood.

I followed the same path. I made porcelain casts from the bones of forest animals I found. Each of them sounds a little different. I checked the sound of each one and listened to how they “talked” to each other.

My early years were saturated with the search for something sacred, which was then undefined, and attempts to reconnect with the source. At that time, I was greatly inspired by, among others, the work of Maciej Rychły – a versatile musician, instrument maker, co-founder of the Jorgi quartet and composer of music for mystery plays, which gave me a sense of deep spiritual experience. … I am talking about the Song of the Goat Theatre.

I was fascinated by different types of music, but what I always craved was a deep emotional charge. I found it in various places. I listened passionately to bands such as Atman, Ossjan, Dead Can Dance, Księżyc, attended performances by the ZAR theatre, which performed deeply moving funeral songs, and later discovered the music of Paweł Szamburski and the band T/aboret.

I listened to the sounds of the world around me. I spent time alone in the forest, in silence. I heard the rustling of leaves, raindrops falling on wood or water.
In the end, I spent time in the forest, but not alone, surrounded by other free people who had gathered for the Rainbow Family gathering, playing instruments and singing in a way that I cannot even begin to describe in words. I can only try to “transfer” that impression, that memory, to the sensitivity that resonates in my works.

In the following years, several more instruments were created, and in 2022 I completed a comprehensive project in which music was composed specifically for my instruments.
The leitmotif was rituality and rites of passage, which I discuss in another post.

But what is it all about?
It is about several themes: the need for the sacred in our lives, the consciousness that permeates everything, the fact that vibrations transmit information, not only through sound, but also through sight.