Paweł Romańczuk (PL)
Born in 1975, he received his musical education in the double bass class at the State Elementary Music School in Bolesławiec. A musician, composer, since 2006 he has been developing his search for unusual sources of sound. Founder of the Small Instruments group in Wrocław, where he realises his own artistic needs. He has written music for more than 20 films and theatre performances, published his own music on 15 LPs, SPs, CDs and DVDs in Poland, Japan and France, and played around 300 concerts in Europe and Asia. He has amassed a unique collection of more than 600 unusual musical instruments, used in recording and publishing activities.
He builds his own instruments, playing constructions and creates sound installations. He is a researcher of musical instrument culture : in 2010, he published the world’s first study of the history of the toy piano; in 2013, he wrote the textbook ‘Home Experiments with Musical Instruments’ published together with the album of Small Instruments ‘Samoróbka’, dedicated to education in building experimental musical instruments with one’s own hands. His second publication continuing the idea of ‘self-building’ was dedicated to a 20-member workshop group, with whom he prepared and realised a collection of pieces on the album ‘Gruppo di Construzione’. This was the second major workshop project carried out in collaboration with the PozyTywka Foundation.
Between 2019 and 2021, in collaboration with the Under the Columns Club, he realised 3 original projects in the area of blind and deaf people.