Lecturer RAFAL ZALECH (PL/AT)

Lecturer RAFAL ZALECH

Co-founder of NIMIKRY – an contemporary-pop duo focusing on newest music-technologies.
Author of Stringscope – a new ultra precise pitch estimation sensor for stringed instruments.

Rafał Zalech – violist, composer, inventor, born in 1988 in Wroclaw (Poland).. Concert activity with most renowned contemporary music ensembles, mainly Klangforum Wien; chamber music as well as solo performances at the festivals all over Europe (Huddersfield Festival, New Directions Festival, 8 Brücken Cologne, März Musik Berlin, Wien Modern, Warsaw Autumn etc.) Worked with composers such G.F. Haas, B. Furrer, S. Sciarrino, G. Scelsi, B. Ferneyhough, T. Murail, Peter Eötvös, Eva Reiter, Georges Aperghis, P. Boulez. His solo debut in the Main Hall of Vienna Konzerthaus with G. Grisey’s Les Espaces Acoustique got very enthusiastic critics in the Press reviews

Since 2012 developing a platform for augmented string instruments, by using custom built sensors to track the finger positions on the fingerboard as well as the amplitude of the instrument itself. Author of RZ.library – a Max/Msp abstraction package dedicated for a live sound processing of the augmented string instruments. Studied viola & electroacoustic composition at the Music University in Vienna, Austria, and chamber music at the Yale University (USA)