Slavek Kwi is sound-artist, composer and researcher whose main interest lies in the phenomena of perception as the fundamental determinant of relations with Reality. He has been fascinated by sound-environments for the last 25 years, focusing on electroacoustic sound-paintings. These complex audio-situations are created mainly from site specific recordings, resulting in subjective reports for radio-broadcast, “cinema for ears” performed on multiple speakers, sound-installations integrated into the environment and performances.

From the early nineties Slavek has operated under the name Artificial Memory Trace. If you go to his site, you’ll find lots of sound files that are wonderful to listen to.

Interested equally in free_music research as part of social investigations and employing the space_time and any objects it contains as instruments. His works oscillate between purely sound_based and multidisciplinary projects. Slavek also facilitates experimental sound-workshops with autistic children and those with learning disabilities. The workshop technique places emphasis on extensive listening and the stimulation of creativity through observation and the support of natural tendencies.

Slavek Kwi was born in ex-Czechoslovakia, lived 14 years in Belgium, and from October 2000 on he has been based in Ireland.

He was one of the artists in Soun.din, of which a 2004 example below:

Here are some of the things he’ll be doing this year and next:

2008:
Shorelines, creative exchange_project between Ireland and New Foundland, Canada.
Feb: 2 Places project: 2 simultaneous sound_installations in Ormeau Bath Gallery, Belfast
and IDC University of Limerick. (curated by Sean McCrum)

2007:
Nov.: participating in Mamori Sound Project, workshop/residency for sound artists at Mamori Lake (Amazon, Brazil), directed by Francisco Lopez and organized by Mamori ArtLab

Oct.: the presentation of Rattle_Snake in Sound Oasis at the University of South California in Long Beach USCLB, USA.

Sept.: composition designed for headphones Nonsense_On_SENSE for Sydney Non Objective, an organisation with an exhibition space and active gallery program in New South Wales, Australia. Simultaneously exhibited also in Melboune at Counterpoint gallery.Curated by Salvatore Panatteri.

Aug.: participating with Soun.Din in Playback Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Also sound_expedition in Amazon (reserva Xixuau-Xiparina, west side of Rio Jauaperi in southern Roraima) and Mato Grosso (Pantanal).

Aug.: site_based sound_installation Drawing The Air in collective exhibition Synesthesia Sat, Birr, Ireland. Curated by Paul Murnaghan.