Drone & Theater Music is a new original collection of electroacoustic compositions by Szymon Golec, consisting of three tracks. The first, titled Ten Sefirot, is a second version of an octophonic composition that premiered in Budapest in December 2025, the mix on the album is taken from the premiere of the second version, featuring spatial sound decorelation, during a concert in April 2026 in Kraków recorded by Kacper Kiecana, with an original quasi-spatial mix by Szymon Golec. The second track is a suite from the theater production titled A Short Fantasy About Power After Violence a play written and directed by Natalia Wiewióra for the AST experimental stage, featuring alternative dance music and drones we wrześniu 2026. The third track is a suite from a theater play The Almost Girl written by Izabella Francis Vinent Abreu and directed by Benedykt Lewandowski, premiering in October 2025 as part of the ETTC Theater’s monodrama festival, featuring electro and alternative music.

A composer of instrumental, vocal-instrumental, and electroacoustic music, born in Kraków in 2002. His creative interests span both universal themes such as: archetypes, sound embodiment, nostalgia, and meditation and more specific ones including: Jewish mysticism, intertextuality, post-spectralism, and a particular conception of trance. Szymon Golec is a laureate of international composition competitions: in 2026, he received an Honorable Distinction for his composition out-of-body-experience for clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and two accordions at the 9th Krzysztof Penderecki International Competition for Young Composers, organized by the Polish Composers’ Union Krakow branch. In 2025, his piece Beyond the Veil of Shadows for clarinet, cello, and piano was awarded an Honorable Distinction at the 8th International Competition for Young Composers organized by the Krakow branch of the Polish Composers’ Union. Golec works have been performed in Poland and abroad: David’s Harps for guitar quartet, harp, and string orchestra at the Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic in Kraków, conducted by Tomasz Tokarczyk, together with the Cracow Guitar Quartet (2026), Dziedzictwo for tenor and organ, commissioned by the Jan Karski Society at the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kielce the tenor part was sung by cantor Isidoro Abramowicz from the Pestalozzistrasse Synagogue in Berlin, accompanied by Dr. Jakub Stefek at the organ (2026), at the international new music festival Ostrava Days 25 – Music of Today, the world premiere of the saxophone quartet Dreambody – in memory of Arnold Mindell by Quasar from Montreal; at the conference on 3D spatial sound design Encounters in Sound at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest (2025)—the octophonic sound sculpture Ten Sefirot, and also at the Elementi conference-festival at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków by the Spółdzielnia Muzyczna in 2025, as well as by other ensembles in 2026, 2023, and 2022.

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