Organizer: L.A.S. Listening and Sounding Foundation
Photos: Tomasz Gawdzik
This project is financed under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP)by the European Union — NextGenerationEU
Beyond the Music – Exchange, Conversation, Inspiration
Between sets, the audience had the opportunity to meet the artists, talk with them, and experience the creative process from the inside. The atmosphere was dense with inspiration and shared energy. These moments — the exchange of ideas, spontaneous conversations, laughter, and curiosity — are what transformed the event into something far more than a concert.
Once again, The Third Ear Music proved that Lublin is a place open to experimentation, to cultural encounters, and to creativity born in the moment — here and now.
Three sets. Three perspectives. One shared foundation: deep listening, courage, and absolute authenticity. It was outstanding music-making. And although the sounds have long since faded from the halls of CSK, they continue to resonate — in memory, and in plans for future musical encounters.
Set I – A Transatlantic Pulse and the Spirit of New York
Piotr Damasiewicz (PL) – trumpet
Antoine Roney (USA) – tenor saxophone
Jakub Cywiński (PL/UK) – double bass
\Kojo Roney (USA) – drums
From the very first set, emotions ran high. Fresh from a premiere performance at Jazz Jamboree, Piotr Damasiewicz arrived in Lublin with a New York–based quartet, delivering — quite literally — a surge of energy from the city that never sleeps straight into PHONOmatic Studio.
Damasiewicz’s trumpet and Antoine Roney’s tenor saxophone engaged in an intense conversation: charged with tension, emotional eruptions, and moments of meditative suspension. Kojo Roney demonstrated that youth on the improvised music scene means strength, imagination, and fearless freshness, while Jakub Cywiński anchored the entire structure with his double bass — right at the moment when everyone else seemed to be musically unfastening their seatbelts.
This was playing that was deep, direct, and piercing — music that breathed through movement, impulse, and truth.
Set II – Intimacy, Tension, Dialogue
Aleksandra Drążkowska Kutrzepa (PL) – violin
Jakub Cywiński (PL/UK) – double bass
Robert Kutrzepa (PL) – drums
The second set shifted the atmosphere toward a more intimate, sonoristic landscape. Aleksandra Drążkowska Kutrzepa led the narrative with her violin — sometimes subtle, sometimes decisive — shaping the music with clear dramaturgy and emotional precision.
With Cywiński returning on bass, the trio maintained a strong sense of continuity while opening up to new tonal colors. Robert Kutrzepa built tension through rhythm — at times restrained, at others exploratory. This was a meeting marked by focus and sensitivity, where every sound truly mattered.
Set III – Local Dialogue, New Connections
Jacek Steinbrich (PL) – double bass
Grzegorz Lesiak (PL) – guitar
Krzysztof Kasprzyk (PL/AT) – soprano saxophone
The third act of the evening highlighted the strength of local connections and confirmed the immense artistic potential of Lublin and the surrounding region. Steinbrich, Lesiak, and Kasprzyk formed an intimate yet energetic trio, where freedom met a deep awareness of acoustic space.
Kasprzyk’s delicate soprano saxophone, Lesiak’s selective — at times punk-inflected — guitar cuts, and Steinbrich’s organic double bass sound came together to create music rooted in dialogue: inward-looking, emotional, and deeply connected to place and relationship.
MUT#10 / 25.10.2025 / PHONOMATIC STUDIO / LUBLIN
The Third Ear Music | 25 October 2025
A Night When Improvisation Spoke the Loudest
Energy, spontaneity, and an unrelenting search for new sounds — these words best capture another chapter of Third Ear Music, a series dedicated to creativity born at the intersection of genres, traditions, and artistic freedom. On a Saturday evening, PHONOmatic Studio at the Centre for the Meeting of Cultures transformed into a sonic laboratory, and the audience became both witnesses and active participants in an extraordinary musical dialogue.
The night opened with a few words that perfectly set the tone for what was about to unfold: music without borders, without stylistic limitations, and without compromise. Improvisation became the shared language — a meeting point for artists from different backgrounds, generations, and continents.
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