Pointless Geometry: Fest 26
line up: Joanna Duda / FOQL / Teoniki Rożynek
Tickets: 50 zł przedsprzedaż / 65 zł na bramce
Pointless Geometry returns to the Komuna Warszawa Theater to open up a space for sound and shared experience.
Ambient and experimental music will flow slowly, in the gaps between silence and attentive listening. We invite you to immerse yourself in tranquility.
Line up:
• Joanna Duda – “Regina Silva” PREMIERE!
With Antoni Michnik, Natan Kryszk i Tomek Popakul.
• FOQL – “Bug Poems”
• Teoniki Rożynek – “Pathopoeia / Tomba Emmanuelle”
Bios
Joanna Duda is a leading figure on the contemporary European artistic scene, whose wide-ranging practice encompasses composition, improvisation, piano performance and visual art. Her distinctive voice within experimental music – organically blending jazz, classical and contemporary idioms – has gained international recognition at major festivals and in prestigious concert halls.
Active on the European and international scene since 2017, Joanna Duda Trio has performed regularly at major musical institutions and venues such as Ronnie Scott’s (London), Le Périscope (Paris), Porgy & Bess (Vienna) and Dizzy’s Jazz Club (New York), as well as at festivals ranging from Jarasum Jazz Festival in Korea to Berlin JazzFest.
In March 2026, Pointless Geometry will release her latest album, “Regina Silva” (POINT#66)
https://joannaduda.eu/
FOQL stands for Justyna Banaszczyk – she creates within the realm of experimental electronic music. Author of audio dramas, theatre music, and music for games. Her compositions resonate with echoes of IDM, industrial, ambient, leftfield but the most important factors are rhythmic and sonic inventiveness, as well as continuous experimentation. Sometimes she reaches for turntables and four-track tape recorders to create sound collages under the moniker Głupiec. She co-runs Pointless Geometry, a label that releases experimental electronic music from Poland. She is an alum of the SHAPE Platform, an international institution that promotes selected artists from Europe. Co-founder of Radio Kapitał – 1st community radio in Poland. .
https://soundsfoolish.com
https://pointless-geometry.bandcamp.com/album/foql-bug-poems
Teoniki Rożynek, composer, born in 1991 in Krakow. Lives in Warsaw. She creates both instrumental, electroacoustic and electronic music. She plays violin, electronics and waste. Her works have been performed at various festivals, including the Warsaw Autumn, Musica Electronica Nova, Sacrum Profanum, Unsound, Containerclang (Cologne) or Bedingo International Festival of Exploratory Music.
She collaborated on film productions (Tower. Jany Dzień dir. Jagoda Szelc, Sole dir. Carlo Sironi, Prime Time dir. Jakub Piątek), theater performances (Hymn do Love dir. Marta Górnicka (Best Music at the 10th Komedia), November directed by Tomasz Węgorzewski (distinction at the 3rd edition of the Klasyka Żywa festival)), TV shows (Słabi, directed by A. Biedrzycki (award for music at Teatroteka Fest 2019) and performances (Chorus from the “The Ark of Covenant” Katarzyna Kozyra).
She is a graduate of the FCUM in Warsaw in the composition class of Krzysztof Baculewski.
http://teonikirozynek.pl
https://pointless-geometry.bandcamp.com/album/teoniki-ro-ynek-pathopoeia-tomba-emmanuelle
About the Label
Pointless Geometry is a Warsaw-born label which is now based in the post-industrial Łódź, a city that’s currently being aggressively redeveloped. A couple of weeks before our meeting, label head Justyna Banaszczyk, AKA sound artist and composer FOQL, posted a photo of Ignorantka, the experimental music venue she co-runs with fellow Pointless Geometry boss, VJ and tape jockey Copy Corpo (real name: Darek Pietraszewski), surrounded by digger machines on what remained of the road. Banaszczyk made a joke of it, telling followers they could try flying over seeing as walking was no longer an option, but it looked pretty apocalyptic.
The scene is much the same when DJ Mag meets the duo at Ignorantka in early August, with the works to improve the city’s infrastructure now ongoing for over a year. The local authorities’ seeming disregard for the impact such drastic reconstruction will have on the city’s local cafés and bars, some of which have since closed, is an apt metaphor for how Banaszczyk and Pietraszewski see the country’s cultural gatekeepers as regarding the Polish independent music scene. “There’s a joke that to get a grant you have to be an 80-year-old composer,” says Banaszczyk. “Things have gotten worse too since the [2015] election of the [right-wing populist] Law and Justice Party. It’s mostly music that fits the government’s cultural politics agenda that gets any kind of support.”
The situation makes the continuing success of the 2015-founded Pointless Geometry, which operates in an anti-capitalist manner — refusing to be on streaming platforms like Spotify, for example — even more remarkable. The label gets its name from point-free geometry, a mathematical theory that Warsaw-born Pietraszewski explains as a geometry in which the ontological notion is region rather than point. The theory appealed because of its refusal to have strictly defined properties, which reflected Pietraszewski’s desire to run a label that wasn’t tied to any particular genre. Building a catalogue that doesn’t follow trends, it’s developed a reputation as being able to spot music that stands the test of time.
https://pointless-geometry.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/pointless_geometry/
https://bsky.app/profile/pointlessgeometry.bsky.social
Co-financing
The event is co-financed by the Warsaw City Hall as part of the project Komuna Warszawa – Social Institution of Culture.
