Digital Musics & Sound Art
Honorary Mention

Syphon

Wojciech Rusin (PL)

Syphon is a music release (on AD 93 label, London, 2022) that features electronic and acoustic music, soprano and alto vocals, and 3D-printed wind instruments. It seeks connection between noise, contemporary sound design, and early renaissance and old music. 

Music from Syphon has been performed in 2022 Unsound festival in Kraków. It featured a contemporary music ensemble Spoldzielnia Muzyczna, a soprano, CGI visualizations, and 3D-printed reed instruments. Some of the instruments resurrect medieval double recorders or reimagine 12th century shawms. Others are based on ancient ideas that have been carried into the present, for example, the double reed is still used in the contemporary bassoon and oboe. This reed is referred to as ‘Dionysian’ in Homer, and described as carrying an archetypal sound in contemporary theory by Murray Schaeffer. 

My overtone pipes are based on Carpathian shepherds’ flutes, and my ocarinas are decorated with beings that relate to Eastern European mythologies. 

Syphon is an interdisciplinary project that consists of recorded music, graphic score, 3D-printed instruments, and CGI animations that are integral to the live performance. 

Syphon is a music release (on AD 93 label, London, 2022) that features electronic and acoustic music, soprano and alto vocals, and 3D-printed wind instruments. It seeks connection between noise, contemporary sound design, and early renaissance and old music. 

Music from Syphon has been performed in 2022 Unsound festival in Kraków. It featured a contemporary music ensemble Spoldzielnia Muzyczna, a soprano, CGI visualizations, and 3D-printed reed instruments. Some of the instruments resurrect medieval double recorders or reimagine 12th century shawms. Others are based on ancient ideas that have been carried into the present, for example, the double reed is still used in the contemporary bassoon and oboe. This reed is referred to as ‘Dionysian’ in Homer, and described as carrying an archetypal sound in contemporary theory by Murray Schaeffer. 

My overtone pipes are based on Carpathian shepherds’ flutes, and my ocarinas are decorated with beings that relate to Eastern European mythologies. 

Syphon is an interdisciplinary project that consists of recorded music, graphic score, 3D-printed instruments, and CGI animations that are integral to the live performance. 

ad93.bandcamp.com/album/syphon
www.wojciechrusin.com/3d-printed-pipes

Soprano: Eden Girma  

Alto, flute: Emmy Broughton 

With support from: Qu Junktion for the production of the Speculum Veritatis video 

Wojciech Rusin (PL) is a Polish audio visual artist based in London. He draws inspiration from alchemical and gnostic texts, early Renaissance choral music, and Eastern European mythologies. He released the Syphon LP on ad93 in 2022 and The Funnel LP on Akashic Records in April 2019. He designs and makes 3D-printed reed instruments, reworking ancient designs with contemporary 3D modelling technologies. In 2020 he released Meat for the Guard Dogs on Cafe OTO’s Takuroku digital imprint, and the Rufus Orbis cassette for Boomkat Editions / Documenting Sound series. His music has been featured on BBC Four and he has worked for The National Theatre and The Southbank Centre.  

Wojciech Rusin (PL) is a Polish audio visual artist based in London. He draws inspiration from alchemical and gnostic texts, early Renaissance choral music, and Eastern European mythologies. He released the Syphon LP on ad93 in 2022 and The Funnel LP on Akashic Records in April 2019. He designs and makes 3D-printed reed instruments, reworking ancient designs with contemporary 3D modelling technologies. In 2020 he released Meat for the Guard Dogs on Cafe OTO’s Takuroku digital imprint, and the Rufus Orbis cassette for Boomkat Editions / Documenting Sound series. His music has been featured on BBC Four and he has worked for The National Theatre and The Southbank Centre.