Center of Gravity by Teoniki Rożynek
new music album on limited edition analogue cassette and digital download
Throughout the summer of 2025, Teoniki Rożynek undertook a sonic exploration of the new building of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw to compose an album rooted in her practice of attentive listening to reality, interweaving field recordings with fragments of sonic debris and sound waste she has collected over the years. In collaboration with Joanna Duda, she focused on the hidden acoustic landscape of the museum’s underground levels, -1 and -2, spaces normally inaccessible to visitors. Suspended between Warsaw’s metro stations and the dense network of the city’s energy and water infrastructure, the museum’s underbelly reveals a unique sound environment. The recordings capture hums of water flowing in pipes, hisses, and crackles of the “lungs” and “veins” of the building that allow the new museum to function as if it were a living organism.
Center of Gravity by Teoniki Rożynek, music album on limited edition (250) audio cassette
All music composed, produced & mixed by Teoniki Rożynek in 2025
Mastering: Radek Sirko
Artworks & layout: Piotr Macha
Center of Gravity is co-released by The Wapping Project, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and Aural Prism.
Commissioned by The Wapping Project, co-commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, for the festival Sonics & Scenics, supported by the British Council through UK/Poland Season 2025.
Curated and produced by Marta Michalowska and Thomas Zanon-Larcher (The Wapping Project), Jagna Lewandowska and Anna Litwińska (Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw), Piotr Macha and Radek Sirko (Aural Prism)
Thank you: Joanna Duda
Teoniki Rożynek. Image by Senka Milutinovic
Teoniki Rożynek is a composer with a passion for sound design. Attentive listening to reality provides the key source of her sound material. She collects scraps of sound junk and sonic waste to generate her compositions. Her practice includes electronic and electroacoustic music, both as a solo musician and within collectives. She plays the violin, electronics and randomly found objects. She has also collaborated with artists from other art forms to create films, performances and multimedia installations. Her works have been performed at various festivals, including the Warsaw Autumn, Musica Electronica Nova (Wrocław), Sacrum Profanum (Kraków), Unsound (Kraków), Containerclang (Cologne), and the Bedingo International Festival of Exploratory Music (Victoria, Australia).
