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Brunette Models is a Polish-Cypriot musical project for experimental electronic music and sound sculpture, in the style of ambient music

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

, atmospheric and deep listening music, and is a pioneer of this kind of music in Poland.

Piotr Krzyżanowski

Brunette Models is the alter ego

Alter ego

An alter ego is a second self, which is believe to be distinct from a person's normal or original personality. The term was coined in the early nineteenth century when dissociative identity disorder was first described by psychologists...

of the artist Piotr Krzyzanowski, who was born (1974) and grew up in Toruń

Torun

Toruń is an ancient city in northern Poland, on the Vistula River. Its population is more than 205,934 as of June 2009. Toruń is one of the oldest cities in Poland. The medieval old town of Toruń is the birthplace of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus....

(Poland). He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy (Nicolaus Copernicus University). He was involved in projects for the Warsaw Electronic Festival (WEF) and Contemporary Electronic Soundscapes (CES). He is also a journalist of the "Estrada i Studio" magazine. Krzyzanowski is active in music production and the implementation of sound, too. He performed live at the International Ambient Festival in Gorlice, July 2004 and many more. The music of Brunette Models has been played by radio stations. In August 2009 a video-clip by Polish multimedia-artist Joanna Cholascinska was released with a track from the "Apsychastenia" album. Krzyzanowski designed and constructed hardware and software for high-resolution recording (Digital eXtreme Definition

Digital eXtreme Definition

Digital eXtreme Definition is an audio encoding scheme for professional use that was developed for editing high-resolution recordings because DSD, the audio standard used on Super Audio CD is not ideally suited for editing...

) on a 24-bit/352.8 kHz workstation. Krzyzanowski founded the Cypriot label Anadyomene' Secret Records. A characteristic of Brunette Models music is that it homes in on the dominant tone color as a fundamental aesthetic value which is a trait of synesthetes

Synesthesia

Synesthesia , from the ancient Greek , "together," and , "sensation," is a neurologically based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway...

Discography

1995 - 97 - Magnus luctus in ergastulo - The first album.
1999 - Apsychastenia - The second album.
2000 - Impressions of whispers - The third album.
2002 - Historia jednej chwili (History of one moment) - ANR0017.
2002 - City Songs 7 - compilation
2004 - 6th International Music Presentations of Ambient 2004, 15 July, P5:00, presenter: Jerzy Kordowicz.
2008 - Last poem - The fifth album - GEN CD 007.
2010 - Autarky [single - Studio Master 24-bit/96 kHz technology].

Sources

Polscy producenci muzyczni (Polish music producers), PL edition [paperback], Publication Date: 3 September 2011, ISBN-10: 1231846542, ISBN-13: 978-1231846544.
Kalejdoskop polskich twórców (Kaleidoscope of Polish artists), "Astral Voyager" Magazyn Muzyki Elektronicznej (Electronic Music Magazine), 2001, No 1.
Czym jest dla mnie muzyka, czyli co ma Chopin do ambientu, "Astral Voyager" Magazyn Muzyki Elektronicznej (Electronic Music Magazine), 2001, No 2.
El-Skwarka, Impresje Szeptów (Impressions of whispers), "Estrada i Studio", No. 5, 2001, ISSN 1427-0404, p. 96.

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