BENIAMIN GŁUSZEK: SLEEP STRINGS

ExhibitionCella Gallery and Hovorny, Opava

Curator: Daniel Brożek

The installation by Polish artist Beniamin Głuszek is a tribute to Alvin Lucier, the pioneer of EEG use in experimental music (Music for Solo Performer, 1965) and an innovator of sound art (Music on a Long Thin Wire, 1977). At the same time, it revives the legacy of Kraków-based neurophysiologist Adolf Beck (1863–1942), the discoverer of brain action potentials and one of the first researchers in the field of electroencephalography. Głuszek stands out for his approach to sound installation, in which he draws on the technological principles of early experimenters in both sound and science.

Beniamin Głuszek Creator of sound installations, music theorist. His main focus is the sonification of the brain’s electrical activity (EEG). He has presented his works in the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Scotland, and Poland – including at the Warsaw Autumn Festival, AudioArt, the Survival Art Review, and the Canti Spazializzati cycle. https://neuromuzyka.pl/

Alvin Lucier (1931–2021) Composer, pioneer of experimental music and sound art, professor at Wesleyan University, member of the Sonic Arts Union (together with Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma). He was the first to systematically explore the physicality of acoustic phenomena, mechanisms of sound perception, and the acoustic properties of space. “We all come from him.”

Daniel Brożek Curator and theorist of sound and sound art. He curates the Survival Art Review and the Canti Spazializzati cycle. He is a member of the Soundscape Research Studio at the University of Wrocław. For many years he has collaborated with the magazine Glissando, the PLATO Gallery in Ostrava, and the Sanatorium of Sound festival, and he ran the blog Canti Illuminati. As Czarny Latawiec, he performs as a musician and creates sound installations and theatre compositions.

The installations that will be presented at the exhibition in Cella Gallery were realized as part of the Survival Art Review (Sleep Strings, 2019) and the cycle Canti Spazializzati (Clocker, 2022).