Przez zabawę ku źródłom dźwięków — przyczynek do badań instalacji dźwiękowych w twórczości Lidii Zielińskiej

Through Play to Sound Sources—A Contribution to Research ofLidia Zielińska’s Sound Installations

Sound installations have been present in Polish music since the 1960s when the first “spatial-musical compositions” were presented by Zygmunt Krauze. His innovative activities hadn’t found followers in the Polish musical community for quite a while, but in the 1980s composers started to be more and more interested in multimedia forms engaging recipients into an active participation. Among these artists was Lidia Zielińska—a composer willingly exploring the sonoristic possibilities of both traditional instruments and electroacoustic ones. A big importance into the formation of her individual composition language was getting familiar with Raymond Murray Schafer’s ideas, meetings with this Canadian composer and promoting his thought into the polish community. An important current of her creative activities were also the actions focused on children. All these mentioned aspects can be seen in her installations that—according to the assumptions of Łukasz Guzek, a researcher of 20^th and 21^st-century art—inextricably combine the questions of space and presence. In terms of sound, these projects and not-installation Zielińska’s creations merge into a coherent whole: a space to explore problems related to sound’s essence and sources, as well as acoustic ecology. This article describes in more detail the following sound installations of Lidia Zielińska, including their composition assumptions and way of realizing the elements characterising the installation forms: Muzyka potencjalna [nr 1]. Spiskowa teoria dźwięku (1988), Projekt dla końca korytarza (1994), Alles gab’s schon mal/Wszystko już było (2006), Lutosławski DIY (2013), Plasterki muzyki (2013), Looks Chinese, Sounds Polish (2013) and Polish Sonorities (2014).