{"id":3813,"date":"2021-04-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=3813"},"modified":"2021-06-27T00:54:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:54:00","slug":"soundwave-54-michal-milczarek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/soundwave-54-michal-milczarek\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUNDWAVE : 54 : MICHA\u0141 MILCZAREK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today\u2019s guest deejay is Micha\u0142 Milczarek<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Micha\u0142 is based in Warsaw, Poland, and is an ambient electroacoustic artist that explores multimedia, sound art, and ambient genre through guitar soundscapes, field recordings, and samples. He is a conceptual leader of MM3<\/a>, who creates 360\u00b0 concepts of composing music, sound design, audio production, visual arts, and live performances. Micha\u0142 is also a member of NUDA<\/a>, a polish modern jazz\/avantgarde band. Micha\u0142 is currently working on different multimedia concepts and audio-visual works connecting the language of music and social commitment.<\/p>\n\n

Micha\u0142 is yet another musician I discovered on one of my deep dives on Bandcamp<\/a>. I don\u2019t have anything else to say about Bandcamp that I haven\u2019t said here already. If you haven\u2019t used Bandcamp\u2019s service, please do. They do great work, and they make sure that the artists and music labels receive a high percentage of the money they make through selling music. You can buy the music you love and know that the musicians are fairly compensated for their work.<\/p>\n\n

Micha\u0142\u2019s mix for today\u2019s show is a surprise. I suppose all the mixes on SOUNDWAVE are surprised. What I mean is that I invite people I respect to guest deejay on the show and give them the parameters that their mix focus on ambient, classical, experimental, and instrumental music. How they choose to interpret that is up to the guest deejay.<\/p>\n\n

Therein lies what I think the charm of the show is. What music do these talented musicians love and want to share with us? It would be a mistake to believe that the guest deejays would select tracks like their own music, yet I make this mistake again and again.<\/p>\n\n

Take Micha\u0142\u2019s opening track, \u201cWhen the World Ended.\u201d It\u2019s a beautiful piece of poetry that serves as a kind of a mission statement for today\u2019s mix. At least, that how it seemed to me. There\u2019s nothing in Micha\u0142\u2019s own music that prepared me for it. Nor did I expect Radiohead<\/a>\u2019s Thom Yorke to make an appearance Micha\u0142\u2019s mix, yet here we are. Maybe I shouldn\u2019t have been so surprised by Yorke\u2019s appearance after hearing him on Robin Rimbaud<\/a>\u2019s mix from a few weeks ago<\/a>. You\u2019ll hear more from Yorke on upcoming mixes on SOUNDWAVE as well.<\/p>\n\n

I know you will take as much delight in Micha\u0142\u2019s mix as I did.<\/p>\n\n

Before I get out of Dodge, I want to briefly share my experience of getting my first shot of the Moderna vaccine. I\u2019ll get my second dose the first weekend of May, but I already feel invincible. I still have to take the same precautions of social distancing and wearing a mask, but the background anxiety of going out into the world has melted away. It\u2019s remarkable how much my outlook has changed. I\u2019ve gone from learning how to live with the pandemic on a day-to-day basis to the feeling we have this virus on the ropes and that we can soon go back to our lives.<\/p>\n\n

That raises an important question: how much of our old lives do we want to go back to? The pandemic has been harrowing, but in some ways, it\u2019s made changes in my life for the better and opened me up to possibilities. How has your life changed under the pandemic?<\/p>\n\n

Join us next week when our guest deejay will be Innesti<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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