Guitarist Robert Piotrowicz is most often associated with the blurry areas of crossover between noise and electroacoustic improvisation. In his improv projects, Piotrowicz explores the sonic potential of electronics – usually in the form of synthesis – and the guitar, playing it with standard improv techniques that employ the instrument as a sound source bracketed off from normal connotations, using a bow for example, or metal, paper and other miscellany. Piotrowicz works on solo projects as well as studio and performance collaborations.
 
Piotrowicz started playing drums when he was twelve, and later switched to guitar, ending up with his own noise rock band in the 90s called Stuckoceiling. Around 1998, Anna Zaradny joined the group and they began to focus strongly on experimental and improvised music. In 2000, Piotrowicz began playing concerts with well know improv figures as John Butcher and Tony Buck. Around the same time, he and Anna Zaradny founded the label and festival MUSICA GENERA. Since 2002, all their activities have been strongly connected with the label, festival and improv/experimental events in Poland.
 
Rurokura and the Final Warn (2006) was Piotrowicz’s first solo release, following recordings with Stuckonceiling; Can't Illumination, an album with Anna Zaradny and Burkhard Stangl; and CDR releases on Polycephal and Phase! Records. Rurokura and the Final Warn appeared on emd.pl/records, a label already boasting releases from Daniel Menche and Xavier Charles.
 
Piotrowicz also collaborates with visual artists including filmmaker and musician Martin Klapper. He has worked for radio and in theatres, and has composed music for films in collaboration with Anna Zaradny.
 
In recent years, Piotrowicz has often collaborated with Xavier Charles, Kevin Drumm and Jerome Noetinger among others. He’s also worked with Otomo Yoshihide, ErikM, Martin Siewert, Dieb 13, Werner Dafeldecker, Lionel Marchetti and Nikos Veliotis. Piotrowicz has participated in a number of international festivals including Audio Art Festival, Jazz en Gatineite, Alt F4, The Strings of Difference Athens, SKIFF, Muzyka z Mózgu, In Between Chicago, Jazz in E., Copenhagen Jazz Festival, and Art Rhythmic Depot. He’s performed in many European countries and the USA.
 
> Robert Piotrowicz on Musica Genera
> Robert Piotrowicz on EMD Records
 
Appearances:
> CTM.08 > THE LAND UNKNOWN
> CTM.08 > UNPREDICTABLE ENCOUNTERS