ArtistInfo

Patryk Lichota

sax,
Composer / Producer of Jazz, Electronic and Rock
A.k.a. Fonoleptic

Patryk Lichota is a musician, composer, improviser and radio producer. He holds a degree in culture studies and musicology from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where he currently studies cognitive studies, while doing his PhD at the Department of Polish and Classical Philology, and teaching students of the programme Interactive Media and Performance. He is a member of the HAT Center, as well as artistic director and producer of the festival of improvised music FRIV. He composes music for theatrical productions and radio drama, while creating multimedia installations as well. He is a member of various ensembles: KakofoNIKT, Posoka, Stupor, Ryzykowna Wyprawa Batyskafem, Kurort, Disgrained. He created the video project Fonoleptic, and is the author of the conception for Strange Lóóp, Lightskin, AUDFIT, Echo Clickers and Starving Mirrors. Together with Marta Romaszkan he is developing FRIV MOVE, a project devoted improvised music and dance. Patryk Lichota has performed/recorded with Blanka Dembosz, Konrad Chyl, Ilia Belorukov, Clayton Thomas, Piotr Mełech, Jeff Gburek, Piotr Tkacz, Adam Gołębiewski, Rafał Zapała, Ido Bukelman, Daniel Davidovsky Pascal Battus, Bryan Eubanks, Gerard Lebik , Noid, Klaus Filip, Sara Zlabitnig, Kristin Norderval, John Hegre, Witold Oleszak, Jakub Królikowski, Matija Schellander, Ofer Bymel, Dan Weinstein, Krzysztof Topolski, Miguel A. García, Kazehito Seki, Jeff Young, Patryk Daszkiweicz, Mike Majkowski, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Lucie Lariq. For 9 years has been hosting Audiosfera, a radio show on contemporary music on Radio Afera.

Instruments

• Saxophone
• Bass guitar
• Synthesizer
• Soprano sax
• Tenor sax

Genres

• Jazz
• Electronic
• Rock
• Alternative

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