The event was organized by Fundacja L.A.S. Listening and Sounding, with visual and energetic elements provided by Beniu Byrski. The concert was realized thanks to support from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (KPO), funded by the European Union’s NextGenerationEU program.
After the concert, conversations continued, thoughts and reflections were exchanged. The gathering became an opportunity to look back on the many years of PHONOmatic Studio’s activity—a place that had long been an important point on the map of improvised music, a space for experimentation, freedom, and artistic courage. That evening, the farewell was given a fitting form: it resonated with intensity, honesty, and truth.
The concert opened with Set 1, featuring artists from the local scene: Maciej Połynko on steelophone and Tomasz Piątek on tenor saxophone. Their performance was a journey toward live-generated electroacoustic music, enriched with clear references to jazz. Delicate electronic structures intertwined with the organic sound of acoustic instruments, forming an open-ended musical form full of tension and unexpected turns.
Set 2 brought Piotr Damasiewicz (trumpet), Jacek Mazurkiewicz (double bass), and Vasco Trilla (drums) to the stage. This was a premiere encounter of three outstanding European instrumentalists in a brand-new configuration. Their collective improvisation unfolded as a hypnotic journey—at times meditative, at other moments charged with electrifying energy. The dialogue between trumpet, double bass, and percussion was intense and focused, based on deep listening and immediate reactions to even the smallest sonic impulse.
The culmination of the evening came with Set 3, when Justyna Miguła joined the ensemble on violin alongside Tomasz Piątek, Piotr Damasiewicz, Jacek Mazurkiewicz, and Vasco Trilla. This expanded collective created spontaneous, fully collaborative music that existed only in that moment. Each artist brought their own musical language and sensitivity, and together they formed a living sonic organism—untamed, dynamic, and emotionally charged.
MUT#12 / 14.12.2025 / PHONOMATIC STUDIO / LUBLIN
On Sunday evening, December 14, PHONOmatic Studio was filled with sound in a way that felt both special and symbolic. All signs pointed to this being one of the last—if not the very last—concert held in this legendary space. As part of the THE THIRD EAR MUSIC series, outstanding European musicians of the improvised music scene met with representatives of the local scene, creating an event that became not only a concert, but also a farewell to a place where free, bold, and uncompromising music had been born for years.
The evening unfolded under the sign of intense focus, collective energy, and unpredictability—everything that lies at the very core of improvised music. Sounds emerged strictly “here and now,” shaped through attentive dialogue between the artists, through silence, tension, and sudden explosions of sound. The audience did not merely listen; they took part in the creative process, witnessing musical events that could never be repeated.
At the center of the evening stood Vasco Trilla—a Catalan master of percussion, an artist who for years has been redefining the very understanding of his instrument. His playing created vast, multi-dimensional soundscapes filled with subtle poetry, trance-like intensity, and the precision of contemporary improvised music. Trilla handled timbre and texture with extraordinary sensitivity, turning the drum set into a source of an almost infinite spectrum of sounds. It was a deep, hypnotic experience—one of those performances that stay with you long after the last note fades.
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