DARIUSZ MAKARUK - MUSICIAN, PRODUCER OF MUSIC AND AUDIOVISUAL PROJECTS
and also software programmer and manager.
As a music producer and musician he plays his own dub / improvised / club music material.
He also performs solo using audiovisual sensory installations, controlled by movement, sound or light. Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.
He composes theatre and film music (Sella Turcica performance with Studio Magellana theatre - a piece featuring pensioners of the John Paul II Nursery Home in Kielce, Poland), soundtrack composition for 1923 Jacques Feyder's "Faces of Children".
He is a member of Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music (PSeME) a Polish department of CIME/ICEM in Bourges
Cooperates with Teatr Polonia and Mabel Octobre Theatre (France) creating theatre audiovisual performance realisation systems based on own software.
He coproduces music projects which are part of contemporary jazz and improvised music such as Michael Urbaniak\s Special Audiovisual Project and a concert-film performance lead by a Polish legendary trumpeter Tomasz Stańko with Mariusz Wilczyńskii and Włodzimierz Kiniorski ( with whom Makaruk has been playing in a duo Kinior & Makaruk since 2002). He also cooperates with choreographer and dancer Naoko Maeshiba as well as with Tymon Tymański and Antoni Gralaki.
PARTICIPANT OF FESTIVALS
Polish Funk, Jazz Cafe, Londyn 2009
Audio Art, Kraków 2009
Golden Leo Festival, Lvov Ukraine 2009
Jazz Jamboree, Miles of Blue, Poland 2009
Films On Family Festival FOR, Łódź, Poland 2009
May Day Revolution Day, London 2009
Lalaland Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France 2009
CYNET Art Festival, Dresden, Germany 2008
Mood Indigo Festival Mumbai, India 2008
Maski Theatre Festival, Poznań 2007
Dwa Brzegi Film Festival, Kazimierz 2007
Film Polska Festival, Berlin 2007
Lalaland, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France 2007
Klubb Europa DJ Tour, Sweden 2007
Sperm Festival, Prague 2007
750 Years of the City of Lviv, , Ukraine 2006
Polish Sound Art in China, China 2006
Polen Vecka in Visby, Sweden 2006
Fusion Festival, Germany 2006
Festival Syntheses in Bourges, France 2006
Festival of Krzysztof Komeda in Warsaw, Poland 2006
Viathea Festival in Görlitz, Germany 2005
Polsk Jazzfestival in Stockholm, Sweden 2004
AS MANAGER AND EVENT PRODUCER
He is an initiator and Artistic Director of Moving Closer Innovative Media and Art Festival since 2007
As producer he cooperated with:
Firrmament Festival 2006
Multiplace Festival 2007
Wisłostrada Festival since 2008
Polish National TV Channel - TVP1 during the Eurovision Song Contest Moscow 2009