Angels and Demons. Tuning and World Building

Daniel Muzyczuk’s lecture will follow a vibrational worldview from Pythagoras’s “music of the spheres,” through Meredith Young-Sowers’s New Age chakra-tuning and Anton Webern(1883-1945)’s spiritually inflected twelve-tone practice, to Pauline Oliveros(1932-2016)’s Deep Listening and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s cosmic poetics. Across these cases, listening becomes a practice of world-making that reconciles binaries (reason/irrational, male/female) through resonance.

Daniel Muzyczuk is the director of Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź. Curator of exhibitions including Sounding the Body Electric: Experiments in Art and Music in Eastern Europe 1957–1984 (with David Crowley), Notes from the Underground: Art and Alternative Music in Eastern Europe 1968-1994 (with David Crowley), The Museum of Rhythm (with Natasha Ginwala) Through The Soundproof Curtain: The Polish Radio Experimental Studio (with Michał Mendyk), Work, work, work (work). Céline Condorelli and Wendelien van Oldenborgh (with Joanna Sokołowska), among others. Co-curator of the Polish Pavilion of the 55th Venice Biennale (with Agnieszka Pindera). His upcoming book is entitled Twilight of the Magicians (2025, Spector Books).