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Neo-avant-garde, neo-sonorism or, at least in some cases, simply electronic ‘rumbling’ seem to predominate in the music of classical contemporary composers. Listening to this kind of music may result in overstimulation, leaving audiences tired and disheartened. Consequently, the existing disparity between listeners and musicians continues to grow as artists try to outdo each other by coming up with ever smarter and more shocking technological effects and experiments. Ignacy Zalewski is a composer that tries to put...

With different disciplines of culture, art and science increasingly merging, transdisciplinary approach to phenomena and works of art seems nowadays to be not only a matter of fashion but a necessity. Overlapping of scientific areas in certain points of interest provides for new research fields and forms. Therefore, an act of creation may be viewed as an idea prompted by an impulse, although defining what a creative impulse actually represents (a physiological phenomenon, a chemical reaction, a philosophical thoug...

The motif Dies Iraeis one of the most recognisable themes in music. Marked by its significant meaning, the musical quotation plays a symbolic role in a number of works of music. It became extremely popular with composers of the Romantic era (Berlioz, Liszt, Saint-Saëns) and later times (Honegger, Crumb). Some composers kept returning to it, sometimes nearly obsessively, in many of their works (Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff). The sequence enjoys a major position in their music, as if it carried the load o...