Ninth Białystok Ambient Salon

18 November 2016, Friday, 20.00

Arsenal Gallery power station, ul. Elektryczna 13, Białystok (the entrance from ul. Świętojańska

Admission: 10 PLN (the tickets available only at the door on the day of the event)

Pleq live

Bartosz Dziadosz aka Pleq, a graduate of Philosophy at the University of Silesia in Katowice. In 2005 he founded a solo project Pleq, which combines elements of drone, down tempo, glitch and modern classical. He creates his work by fusing together independently synthesized sounds, often incorporates violin, the unexpectedly melancholic sound of a piano, sometimes female vocals. Somewhere, something falls, something enters, rings … there’s a hissing and pop, like a short circuit on high voltage lines.
Carried by strong focus, Pleq’s style is remarkably consistent, and may be described as: Glitch & Melancholy.
 
Dtekk DJ set

Dtekk is a real one-man institution of the Polish electronic music scene: a DJ, a devoted promoter and a cultural activist. The man behind Technosoul label, Up To Date Festival, Ambient Park, secret location events in Białystok and a resident of legendary, long-running Metro club.
His vinyl-only sets represent a wide cross-section of music: from Chicago via Detroit to Berlin and London and beyond. He is also a fan of electro, disco and italo. One of the few ambient vinyl DJs in Poland. Dtekk co-creates the collective Technosoul since its inception and is one of the fathers of its success: numerous events with key artists from around the world and the recent expansion of the collective activities as a record label.
The most important achievement for dtekk seems to be Up To Date Festival (www.uptodate.pl) – which he is the founder of, serving as the strategist, promoter and music director. As if that was not enough Dtekk stands for the multi-annual events, such as Ambient Park, Secret Location, Ambient Salon and Kitsch’n’Electricity which are key elements of the scene.

Osmo Nadir live visuals

Osmo Nadir (Przemysław Ostaszewski) is a designer and a composer. His versatile audiovisual experiments take the form of kinetic installations, video arts, innovative musical instruments and performances. He has been collaborating with Up To Date Festival for many years and has been mainly known for his minimalist visualisations and stage design projects. His works were presented around the world. In 2015 Nadir won the Trójka Talents competition in visual arts.