ensemble is a unique phenomenon in our part of Europe. In its music-making, it uses exclusively small instruments: professional devices of reduced size, sound toys, weird musical inventions and a number of small objects that generate sounds. The quest for these new sound sources is a direct consequence of the 20th century, when we observed a gradual emancipation of atypical instruments and their inclusion into traditional instrumental ensembles (Cage, Partch, Kagel and many others).
Small Instruments were founded by Paweł Romańczuk, who in 2005 started to collect these items. Today, his collection includes over 500 instruments. Apart from this extensive collection, the ensemble’s activities include the construction of self-designed prototypes. During the first five years of its existence, the ensemble has recorded five CDs, prepared music for a range of films and theatre plays, and appeared in 200 concerts in Europe and beyond, working notably with Pierre Bastien, Marek Wilczyński, Mariusz Wilczyński, Phonos Ek Mechanes, and the group of Jan Gacy.
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