Sounds of Piotr Nowotnik

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Piotr Nowotnik compose contemporary chamber music, fusion of world music and traditional styles as well as music for games, theater and film.

He graduated from Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne with a Degree in Music Composition and is currently finishing his Master Degree in music composition at the University of Melbourne where he conducts his experimentation into extended techniques for forgotten and obscure instruments, such as hurdy-gurdy.

His recent commissions include music for 'Pleroma Dance Theater' from Hong Kong (Gan Eden, 2014), 'Human Dance' company from Paris, soundscapes and music for Melbourne-based 'La Mama' theatre piece of Suzie Hardgrave's ('Elizabeth Taylor is my Mother' (2015)) and Elaine Hudson's 'There are Trees that are Dancers' (2014).

Piotr's work includes soundtrack for UniFem Australia, University of Melbourne, animateur Merethe Tingstad and video games companies from USA, Greece, Poland, Australia and UK. His soundtrack album for “The Journey” (a film by Marco Kamareddine premièred at the Cannes Festival in 2013) has been nominated to “Best Soundtrack Album “award (APRA Screen Awards 2013).

He performs and records on plethora of unique instruments from around the world – hurdy-gurdy, overtone flutes, bawu, Swedish bagpipe, Uyghur viola etc.

His interest in merging together modern technology with unique organic sounds resulted in releasing his own series of sound libraries for electronic samplers.

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