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A composer, musician, DJ ,sound designer, physicist, and owner of ONO Records, Jan Pienkowski writes and performs music reflecting his diverse background. From his Electroacoustic training and love of World Music comes a mixture of mechanical bleeps, acoustic spaces and ethnic themes. His theatre, film and dance experience bring a flair for the dramatic, while Jan’s affection for techno keeps his DJ sets focused around a minimal-tech sound, meandering between dark, twisting turns and floor shaking grooves.
Performance
Jan’s performances and projects span North America, South America, Europe and Asia. He has played along side a variety of artists including Anthony Rother, Akufen, Mateo Murphy, Pheek, Deepchild, Maus, Vincent Lemieux, Stephen Beaupre, Miguel Graca, Milimetrik, Naw, Sixtoo, Dandi Wind, and many many others, as well as playing at festivals such as Mutek, Elektra, Black & Blue, Quebec 400, Divers/Cité, Fantasia Film Festival, FNC, along with Montreal and Toronto’s Nuit Blanche.
Production
Jan’s productions have been featured on compilations with artists such as Misstress Barbara, LSG, Max Graham, Ian Pooley, Chromeo, Nuclear Ramjet, Mike Shannon, Mateo Murphy, Pheek and many others. On his own label ONO Records he has released an EP and a full length album. Since his last release in 2007, Jan has been busy writing music for film, dance, audio-video installations and multichannel live shows. He has been amassing a lot of new material and he will begin releasing once again very soon.
Since 2004, Jan has been involved in the development of various projects at the Society For Arts and Technolgy (SAT) in Montreal. Some of these projects include: SAT[MixSessions], SAT[osphère] and Domagaya, Cyclo, PropulseArt, as well as the SAT[Transform] school. Other projects also include A.R.M. with choreographer Nikolas Dixon, TechnOpera with the Opera of Montreal, ChinaMix with Beijing Opera singers, as well as the Robo/tek and WE ARE ROBOTS event series.
This year Jan has been chosen by the British Council to begin the development of an International Cultural Project as part of the pilot year of the Cultural Leadership International (CLI) initiative. The aim of the CLI project is to establish a growing network of individuals from all over the world and all sorts of disciplines.
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