Radek Rudnicki
New media artist and sound designer, with a focus on spatial sound in multidisciplinary projects. He serves as a lead sound designer and music composer for the Precyzja Foundation and is also the director of Wave Folder Records. Radek runs a metaverse studio, where he has applied his expertise in spatial sound to create immersive experiences that transport audiences to virtual worlds. Radek manages and designs new media art projects and supports product development, designing sound for a number of synth makers and Eurorack module manufacturers. He composes music for audiovisual media and game sound design, collaborating with studios, visual and media artists to create new media works and audio-visual installations. He works with artists across cultures, linking traditional music and electronics.
In 2008 Radek has been shortlisted by SPNM (UK), as one of the most interesting emerging composers living in the UK. In 2013 announced Ambassador of Jazz in the North of England with the project Space F!ght, subsequently awarded touring funding by Sound and Music, UK in 2013. In 2014 received Emerging Excellence Award and funded artist residencies at EMS Stockholm (2015, 2016 and 2017). In 2018 Fast Company named his project Careview among World Changing Ideas.
Radek works as an entrepreneur, consultant and educator internationally facilitating workshops for varied audiences in the USA, Europe and Japan. He designed and delivered new courses at universities in the UK and New Zealand. He collaborated with NASA’s GISS, SpaceBase, New Zealand and Stockholm Environment Institute on projects linking art and science, which he presented in the USA, Europe and New Zealand. He also worked on Wellcome Trust funded Sonicules project, investigating the use spatial sound in anti-cancer drug design. In his works he emphasises a varied range of digital music, including algorithmic composition, free improvisation and re-contextualisation of traditional music using electronics. As a founder of Wave Folder Records, Space F!ght and co-founder of RPE Duo and Kirki Project, he regularly performs and showcases his work worldwide. His projects were presented at events such as the Metaverse Music Festival, Decentraland, Tokyo Festival of Modular, Stockholm Tech Fest, New Frontiers in New Zealand, the London Jazz Festival, elbPhilharmonie in Hamburg, and the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw, Poland.