The concert will be the grand finale of a one-hour walk through the center of Bydgoszcz, an event called Echoświatło. Maćkowiak and Szwarc, who will be performing the concert, will be accompanied by a visual animation battle. In this battle, representatives from the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts and the University of the Arts in Poznań will go head-to-head.
During the concert, you will once again hear the pieces that will accompany us during the walk—this time, however, they will be performed live, in completely new concert arrangements.
And after the animated battle? Expect anything - the animators will have full creative freedom, limited only by the boundaries of their own imagination.
And the best part? It’s all for free!
Szymon Szwarc / swrcfx - Guitarist, composer, producer, and sound engineer. He has played in bands such as Jesień, Wesele, and Rozwód, and performs as a producer and electronic artist under the name swrcfx. He has collaborated as a musician, producer, or dub FX master with projects including |ALA||MEDA|, Atol Atol Atol, Zdrój, Przepych, Młyn, SKI, Toruńska Orkiestra Improwizowana, R. Iwański, Drogi Krajowe, Wstyd, Suczy Napar, and others. He lives in Toruń.
www.szszwarc.pl
Artur Maćkowiak - Musician and cultural animator. He performs solo, with the band you.Guru, and in various short-lived music projects. Previously, he was part of Something Like Elvis, Innercity Ensemble, and Potty Umbrella. His music spans out on the broadly defined realm of guitar-driven sounds, enriched with a strong dose of experimentation, electronics, ambient, and improvisation. He has shared the stage with artists such as Fred Frith, Toshinori Kondo, Fugazi, The Ex, Nomeansno, and Acid Mothers Temple. He has released five solo albums: Take Away (2012), Before the Angels Play Their Trumpets (2013), If It’s Not Real (2015), Iconic Rapture (2017) and Secret Carnival (2022). He is the artistic director of the Fonomo Music & Film Festival.
Visuals by:
University of the Arts in Poznań
Miłosz Margański and Paulina Wyrt, student artists: Eryka Bitka, Nicole Golek, Jimmy Łukasiewicz, Matylda Maciejewska, Inga Milik, Anna Okoniewska, Elliot Witkowski, Paulina Woźniak
Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk
Weronika Dziurdziewicz, Kamila Okrutny, Adam Przybysz, and Robert Turło, student artists: Martyna Butowska, Marta Drzeżdżon, Lena Dziórzyńska, Dominika Fornal, Aleksandra Franek, Natalia Jagodzińska, Natalia Kazimierska, Andżelika Kępa, Lesia Koniuk, Judyta Kozicka, Weronika Pająk, Zuzanna Pawłowska, Natalia Puszczewicz, Milena Semmerling, Marysia Stasińska, Gracjan Wanat
The event "Anibattle," as part of the 14th IAFF Animocje, is organized within the UNESCO Creative City of Music program in Bydgoszcz.
