Cezary Gapik
 

Instruments I play

Computer and Synthesizer
 

Software I use to make music

Reaktor, Adobe audition, Acid pro and Sound forge
 
 
 
 

Favorite external artists

Nigel Ayers & Randy Greif, Monolake, Autechre & The Hafler Trio, Autechre, Aphex Twin

 

Favorite tags

Ambient, Experimental, Noise, Isolationism, Drone



 

Personal data

Cezary Gapik (also know as CEZAR) was born in Czestochowa, Poland in 1963. He started his musical activity in 1980 as an animator of punk rock bands. Soon enough he discovered new sounds which were brought by the punk rock rebellion. Cabaret Voltaire, Public Image Ltd. or other “new wave” bands had an enormous influence on the perception of music by Cezar. Plunging into the fundaments of musical avant-garde (Karlheinz Stockhausen, Morton Feldman, Luc Ferrari, La Monte Young), the appearance of new creative possibilities (computer) together with the works of artists like Mick Harris (Lull, Scorn), Illusion of Safety, etc. had definitively shaped the musical direction towards which Cezary Gapik follows. His musical creation is based on drones and micro-tonal sound planes interlaced with abstract “images” (field recordings, prepared instruments, various objects) or computer-processed synthetic sounds (glitch). ...