Music albums
Āmurs
as Mammoth Ulthana / with Rafał Kołacki
CD album | total: 55:00
MCK Bydgoszcz, PL | 2018
In the ‘Āmurs’ project, the authors emphasise not only the existence and character of the industrial system itself, but primarily the role of individual workers — those who brought the whole system into existence. The project is a part of the industrial festival TehoFest 2018 organised by the Municipal Centre of Culture in Bydgoszcz. It is comprised of three areas: a sound installation presented in the form of an exhibition, an audio-visual concert, and a music album.
[01] Urbis
[01] Āmurs
[03] Idrk
[04] Minus
[05] Forge
[06] Flora
[07] Achten
[08] Bemerkung
[09] Mass
Wide Grey
CD digisleeve, digital | total: 51:28
Eilean Records, FR | 2017
Artwork: Ewa Doroszenko
Mastering: Lawrence English
The release contains a set of compositions created during Artist-in-Residence programs in Norway and Greece. Using field recordings as the basis for further musical compositions, the artist reveals the power of sound combination and the natural potential of a given place. Seemingly unnecessary sound events are treated here as key elements, revealing a massive landscape of possible progressions.
[01] Iðavöllr
[01] Vague obtrusion
[03] Stream
[04] Glue
[05] Be right back
[06] Ålvik
[07] Achromatic Component
[08] Dense
[09] Resochords
Soundreaming
CD digipak, digital, streaming | total: 48:00
Audiobulb Records, UK | 2017
Soundreaming album by Jacek Doroszenko contains a selection of compositions from the audio-visual project with the same title. In the project soundscapes replace photography as the dominant documentary element at the core of the artistic practice. Project has been produced through a framework of Artist-in-Residence program at Hangar in Barcelona, Spain. Additional recordings: Quality Studio in Warsaw. Composed, performed and produced by Jacek Doroszenko / electronics, field recordings, sampling, prepared piano, turntables, toys, random audible objects.
[01] Aberrationmaker
[01] Fiestamachine
[03] Gothic Passage
[04] MACBA Skaters
[05] Passion Passion
[06] Silent Souvenirs
[07] Urban Folk
[08] Borderstatic
[09] Gone and Faded
[10] HDD Ensemble
Useful Remnants
cassette tape release with original drawings
total: 60:00 | 2016
This music concept album touches on a subject of seemingly useless belongings which are becoming valuable when has to be suddenly left. Field recordings and musical compositions for this project have been produced in a framework of the Artist-in-Residence programs at Kunstnarhuset Messen in Ålvik, Norway and Atelierhaus Salzamt in Linz, Austria. The album was released in a strictly limited edition. Every piece is packaged in a different transparent case, containing the cassette tape, handmade cover and drawings set made on transparent foil and expired photographic paper.
[1] Silent Souvenirs
[2] Gone & Fade
[3] Ålvik
[4] Alte Welt
[5] Polyphonic Body
[6] Gleu
[7] Muy Poco
[8] Resentiment
Particular Factors
as Mammoth Ulthana / with Rafał Kołacki
LP+ CD album | total: 67:00 | Zoharum rec 2016
Jacek Doroszenko & Rafał Kołacki as Mammoth Ulthana continue the path traversed on the duo’s debut album. Music on the album is based on the juxtaposition of organic and computer-generated sounds. This time the bigger focus has been placed on the diversity of sound, vibrating rhythms and performative approach to the recording process.
[01] Antiphase
[02] Throat
[03] UV Garden
[04] Basilisk
[05] Carbon
[06] Sove
[07] Saurr
[08] Baldr
[09] Tombs
[10] Estate
[11] Ratatosk
Mammoth Ulthana
as Mammoth Ulthana / with Rafał Kołacki
CD album | total: 67:47 | Zoharum rec 2013
Mammoth Ulthana is a sound-concept project based on a combination of traditional acoustic instruments, such as an oriental gong set, bells, animal horns, pipes, ethnic drums or singing bowls, with various sounds generated by computer software. This blend creates a sort of unique and intense musical space build on a strong basis and filled with many unforeseen sound events. The main objective of this project is mutual interpenetration of two acoustic and electronic sound worlds.
[01] Prelude
[02] Ballade
[03] Impromptu
[04] Mine
[05] Interludium
[06] Hybrid
[07] Path
[08] Nocturne
Nocturnes Online
in frame of Scholarship of the City of Torun
CD album, digipack | total: 67:00 | 2011
The Nocturnes Online album is a suite of musical compositions that freely refers to the traditional form of the nocturne. The compositions are based on a certain interpretation key: the album is composed using the analysis of the nocturnal movements of web users who never sleep. Here, on the network night does not exist. In this context, the term of nocturne turns into a entirely different meaning.
[01] Starving
[02] Pause
[03] Entering
[04] Freeze
[05] Mana Runners
[06] Interlude (with Rafał Kołacki)
[07] Drop (Shodan)
[08] Artificial Home
[09] Connections
[10] Museum
[11] Calm Trees
[12] 12th level (with Marcin Sipiora)
[13] 13th level
[14] Collision
Artist’s statement
Jacek Doroszenko is an audiovisual artist living in Warsaw, Poland. His artistic activity includes mainly multimedia art, as well as music and audio phenomena. The core of his activity is treating sound phenomena as legitimate material in the field of visual art and emphasizing the value of listening as a practice. In everyday life most of the sound goes unnoticed because we do not really listen to it. Listening begins when we become sound conscious and focus on this sense. The artist uses a wide range of processes, including sound installations, field recordings, video, music score concepts, depending on the context. His practice focuses on using the contemporary sound landscape to select and redefine the notion of noise and malfunction as an undesirable factor.
