POINTLESS GEOMETRY’s 10th BDAY
Dawno Temu & Hyper Matter (AV) / Miłosz Kędra (premiere) / Gary Gwadera & Copy Corpo (AV) / SSRI
Tickets: 80 zł przedsprzedaż / 100 zł w dniu koncertu
Trigger warnings: otwarcie drzwi, kasa, bar od 19.30
Let’s celebrate our 10th BDAY!
Line up:
Dawno Temu & Hyper Matter (AV)
Miłosz Kędra
Gary Gwadera & Copy Corpo (AV)
SSRI
Gary Gwadera is the solo project of Piotr Gwadera, a master drummer from Łódź originally hailing from Kielce. Gwadera has the unique ability to infuse any music with an exceptional and surprising character. He is renowned for his involvement in rock, punk, experimental, jazz, and free improvisation projects. For several years, he has also been a leading drummer in the Polish traditional rural music scene, where he is celebrated for his exceptional fluency with triple rhythms on the jaz* drum. Gwadera has a passion for vintage drums and cymbals, as well as VHS tapes and all types of magnetic recordings.
Piotr Gwadera was awarded the second prize in the Polish Radio Folk Music Competition – New Tradition 2024 for his “magnetic personality, musical imagination, and unique blend of avant-garde and traditional influences,” as well as the Golden Gęśle award for Best Instrumentalist for his “virtuosic approach to mazurka rhythms on unconventional (percussive) instruments.”
*jaz (pol, “Dżaz”) not jazz. A minimalistic drum set that appeared in Europe after WWI along with American jazz artists. It became popular in the Polish rural music scene after WWII.
Copy Corpo (Darek Pietraszewski)
VJ, Tape Jockey, promoter of independent music and cassette culture. He co-runs the audiovisual cassette label Pointless Geometry and the first radio community in Poland “Radio Kapitał”. He plays low-normative cassette sets on the border of plunderphony, radio play and mixtape, but also classic mixes, presenting contemporary cassette releases. Co-founder of the Ignorantka club in Łódź.
As VJ Copy Corpo, he creates visualizations based on feedback from analog video mixers and materials from VHS tapes. In his improvised sets, he uses the aesthetics of analog glitch and psychedelia based on color structures.
His latest full video work “Temple of Urania” is a collaboration with musician FOQL and animator Tomek Popakul and was released in October 2021 on a VHS cassette on the Pointless Geometry label.
In the audiovisual project with FOQL, he performed at such festivals as Braille Satellite, Dym, Sanatorium Dźwięku, Excess, Mózg Festival, Fonomo Music & Film Festival, Rhizom, Atom or Hamselyt. He is also the author of graphics for posters and covers of cassette publications.
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SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor)
Duo from the outskirts of central Poland, is a band whose activity isn’t easy to define but often delving into the darker fringes of dub. Their music is often described as a genre of submarine reggae, likely influenced by the distinctive industrial sound of Łódź and a heavy use of reverb effects. They draw inspiration from the city and its distorted concept of tropical nature. As residents of Radio Kapitał, hosting a show inspired by mental states and the circumstances of their creation, they bring an additional context and depth to SSRI’s music.
Their debut album was released on April 29, 2024, by Pointless Geometry.
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
Współfinansowanie
Wydarzenie dofinansowane przez Urząd Miasta Stołecznego Warszawy w ramach projektu Komuna Warszawa – Społeczna Instytucja Kultury.
