Łukasz Szałankiewicz (alias ZENIAL) – He is an electronic music performer and sound artist. Lukasz is a member of the Polish Society for Electroacustic Music (PSeME) and the Polish Society for Contemporary Music (the Polish subsection of the ISCM). His formative artistic years began in the early 90s with an immersion in the demoscene —an early computer community based around transcending hardware limitations. The multimedia nature of demoscene has remained an important element of his solo artistic work, where sound is often combined with visuals and influenced by a conceptual framework.
In his work Szałankiewicz focuses on musical explorations, audiovisual performances and interactive installations.One of these, Dzwiekoswisty, was presented during the Little Warsaw Autumn (as part of Warsaw Autumn Festival) to high critical acclaim.He has extensively contributed to the organisation of several festivals. He’s also a co-founder of Audiotong label/platform. Releasing as Zenial (and formerly as Palsecam) he also co-creates the project AABZU with Maciej Szymczuk and contributes to the project Dizzy Kinetics with Marek Chołoniewski.
He performed and presented at many Polish festivals including Audio Art Festival and Unsound Festival in Krakow, Wro Festival in Wroclaw and Ad Libitum in Warsaw, as well as in major Polish art centers including Kordegarda Gallery and The Contemporary Art Centre Zamek Ujazdowski in Warsaw, Contemporary Art Gallery Arsenal in Bialystok, Contemporary Art Gallery in Wroclaw and Contemporary Art Center in Torun. Szalankiewicz participated in many events and international festivals, e.g.in Austria, Russia, Bulgaria, Germany, Holland, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, France, China, Hungary, Belarus, Romania, Lithuania, Israel, Kazakhstan, Peru, Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay, USA, Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Croatia, England, Japan, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Georgia, Canada , Egypt,Italy,Armenia, Luxembourg,Portugal,Australia
SELECTED PROJECTS:
DIZZY KINETICS: duo with Marek Choloniewski or main site here!
Aabzu is an audio-visual project created by Lukasz Szalankiewicz, Maciej Szymczuk. The AABZU’s works oscillate between laptop-based click’n’cuts, micro dub, ambient and video performance, found footage and live mixing.
Palsecam is a hibernated project of polish composer Lukasz Szalankiewicz who’s main focus in finding the most effective ways to transgress and unit various stylistic radical in one results often in the unexpected outcomes: “From INFORMATION via DISINFORMATION to OBSERVATION (emission) of final result”.
Angst78 – project between Lukasz Szalankiewicz & Patryk Gegniewicz (Revisq) , started to explore electroacoustic’ evp techniques in the techno/ambient/pop area
SATURN3 – Inspired by 1980’s science fiction movie ‘Saturn 3’ the atmosphere and relation of men and machine is reflected in this collaborative performance under the same name: Saturn 3. Łukasz Szałankiewicz aka Zenial: Sound / Adam Donovan: Robots / Katrin Hochschuh: Reactive Visuals, Software
The Henge Projekt (2010)
OKOSANU ( Milosz Luczynski & Zenial) main site here! (2005-2008)
Recycler & jingles/bed_sounds for Radio_Copernicus (2005-2006)
Das Oder-Projekt _________environmental remix machine. Blackhole-factory in cooperation with Lukasz Szalankiewicz: research, audiovisual performance, interactiv installation. (2005 )Link for video here!
curator/ organizer :
CSW Laznia Gdansk – IN PROGRESS curator (2007-2015)
Sound Around Gdansk Festival 2013 curator
Wibracje Palsecam : concert series in Center of Culture Zamek , Poznań, Poland (2012-2013)
Audiotong label & agenda co-oorganizer (2005-2011)
MediaWave Festival Sanok : co-organizer (2008)
Moving Coser festival 2008-2010 / curator (Warsaw)
Transformator Festival 2009 and The Futurological Congress 2010. Lviv.Ukraine. Curator
Unsound festival (Krakow) / co-organizer (2005-2007)
Faq about Zenial & Palsecam: here!