Dariusz Makaruk
Live electronic music performer, producer, programmer and event manager.
Composer of theatre music. Co-founder of audiovisual duo Makaruk & Pani K. which creates cinematic
concerts based on documentary films deconstructed live.
Co-producer of musical and audiovisual projects: Kinior & Makaruk; audiovisual performance with
Kinior, Tomasz Stanko and Mariusz Wilczynski; Elektrownia Meets Makaruk - experimental jazz project; a duo with acoustic guitar player - Maciej Pruchniewicz; also cooperates with Naoko Maeshiba, Tymon Tymanski,
Gendos, Michal Urbaniak. Performs live using light sensory installation controlling sound through light.
Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.
Is a member of Polish Society for Electro-Acoustic Music (PseME), AudioTONG, Makata Artistic
Association.
Event manager and organiser working in the sector of culture - audiovisual art and music.
Initiatior and managing director of Moving Closer - International New Media Festival link
curator and coordinator of other new media events including: Firmament Festival 2006, Multiplace PL 2007
Participant of:
Film Polska Festival, Berlin 2007
Dwa Brzegi Film Festival, Kazimierz 2007 www.dwabrzegi.com
Lalaland, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France 2007
Klubb Europa DJ Tour, Sweden 2007 www.klubbeuropa.se
Polish Sound Art in China, Guangzhou, Fochan, Shanghai, Beijing 2006
Polen Vecka in Gotland, Sweden 2006,
Fusion Festival, Germany 2006,
Festival Syntheses, Bourges, France 2006,
750 Years of the City of Lviv, , Ukraine 2006
Viathea Festival, Görlitz, Germany 2005,
Sperm Festival, Prague, Czech Republic 2007
Polsk Jazzfestival, Stockholm, Sweden 2004,
Current projects:
Kinior & Makaruk - jazz-experimental duo with Wlodzimierz Kiniorski since 2001
Michal Urbaniak Special Project – concert and publishing cooperation since 2006
Tram.waj – live audiovisual project with VJ and filmmaker Pani K.
Elektrownia + Makaruk - concert project with W.Sobura and D.Trebski
Pruchniewicz & Makaruk - electroacoustic duo with acoustic guitarist Maciej Pruchniewicz
Sella Turcica - theatre music composition and performance, for the Studio Magellana Theatre
Free Tibet - cooperation with Tymon Tymanski
This is a piece based on my own recordings of the enviroment.
In this perfotrmance multi - instrumentalist Jone Takamäki plays around 10 different
instruments including shakuhachi , bass clarinet and various saxophones , flutes and percussions.
After playing records for 32 years , this is the first time I play using only my own recordings.
Jone Takamäki is a longway musician/actor who play in groups such as Edward Vesala Sound anf Fury , Krakatau . Otna Eahket and improvisation group Särjen Äänet.
