Is it possible at all that a jazz-improviser, a classical virtuoso and an avant-garde DJ work together successfully? Can these musicans with such different backgrounds communicate? How to combine the perfection of classical performance with the unpredictable jazz improvisation or the refined sound of acoustic instruments with the tenacious electronic pulse? The answer is “Lutosphere”, a project of three artists from three different musical worlds, who joined forces thanks to Witold Lutosławski. The reason and opportunity for this extraordinary meeting was the fact that 2004 was proclaimed the composer’s anniversary year by the Polish parliament.

“Lutosphere” is a homage-project. The participants are cellist Andrzej Bauer, pianist LeszekMożdżer and the DJ m.bunio.s. The main concept was to perform their own themes together inspired by Witold Lutosławski`s music. In the end an entirely consistent program has been created. It contains not only jazz, improvisation and DJ-ing, but also classical elements of contemporary music. It was first introduced in Wigry and later in Warsaw.

The meeting of artists with such different stylistic backgrounds, different habits and creative experiences brought about an original and fresh sound. Andrzej Bauer knows Lutosławski`s music very well, he frequently participated in performances lead by the composer himself and colaborated with him closely. Mozdżer claims that he actually quoted Lutosławski`s Etude during his free jazz improvisations while participating in the Jazz juniors competition in 1992, which started his adventure with jazz. Bunio, stemming from the young club scene, declares his strong fascination with the composer`s work.

“Lutosphere” is an attempt to create a new quality in music, in which Możdżer, Bunio and Bauer show a great flexibility and distance themselves from their previous work. Electronically disfigured cello re-mastered by a heavy metal fuzz, Możdżer improvising on six sounds (in the “Sacher Variation”), Bunio laboriously editing asymmetric rhythmic divisions taken from Lutosławski`s scores and, on top of it, sampled composer’s voice saying: What was yesterday, is bad! Only things today can be good! 
And when things of tomorrow will be good, the things of today are already bad.

 Andrzej Bauer, electric cello

The winner of the International ARD Contest in Munich, laureate of the International Contest “Prague Spring” and the prizewinner of the European Parliament and the Council of Europe. Born in Łódź, where he also graduated from the Music Academy, run by Kazimierz Michalik. He broadened his studies while collaborating with André Navarra, Miloš Sadlo and Daniel Szafran during numerous master courses. He studied in London for two years under William Pleeth as a Witold Lutosławski scholarship winner.

During recent years Andrzej Bauer has performed his recitals in Amsterdam, Paris, Vienna, Hamburg and Munich, to name a few. He has also played with many symphony orchestras e.g. the Munich Philharmonic, the Naples RAI Orchestra, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Orchestra and Radio Orchestra in Berlin. The cellist gives regular concerts with most of the Polish symphony and chamber orchestras; the National Philharmonic and Sinfonia Varsovia invite him as a soliston their European tours.

Andrzej Bauer has recorded for many Polish and foreign radio and television stations and participated in many international festivals, played in most European countries, USA and Japan. His album, containing among others works of Schubert, Brahms and Schumann (Koch/Schwann), has been awarded the quarterly German Album Review Prize. On his next albums the cellist recorded pieces by Szostakiewicz, Prokofiew, Messiaen, Panufnik and the Cello Concert by Witold Lutosławski. In 2000 he released the first in Polish discography two-piece album with the complete J.S. Bach Cello Suites, for which he received the Fryderyk 2000 – the Polish Phonographic Academy award.

The artist performs a vast repertoire containing many pieces of modern music and tracks composed especially for him. In 2002, during the 44th International “Warsaw Autumn” Festival he performed a recital of premiere pieces on solo cello and electronic media created from his inspirations. This way he inaugurated the Cellotronicum project which he continues till this day and records pieces which are being presented in the most important contemporary music centres in Europe. The next edition of Cellotronicum, presented during Warsaw Autumn, received the Orpheus 2006 award.

Andrzej Bauer established the Warsaw Cellonet Group. He teaches in the Warsaw F. Chopin Music Academy. He spends most of his time writing and composing music.

MichałBunioSkrok, m.bunio.s hit maker

Musician (bass guitar, guitar, vocal, sampler, laptop), producer, composer and remixer. He fulfills his broad musical interests in various projects. His work includes electronica, acoustic and electro-acoustic music as well as numerous genres: experimental electronica, hip hop, punk, jazz, funk, electro and others. He pre-composes as well as improvises. He frequently uses humour, parody and plays with genres and convention.

He takes part in projects like:

• dick4dick a showman music collective collaborating with the artist colony Mlode Miasto Gdansk and the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk;
• Lutosphere or variation on Witold Lutosławski`s score together with Leszek Możdżer and Andrzej Bauer;
• Bassisters Orchestra with Macio Moretti, Fisz, Emade, Wojciech Mazolewski and Mikołaj Trzaska;
• Ludzie with Krzysztof Topolski (arszyn);
• Baabunio with Bartosz Weber

He also plays as djm.bunio.s or solo as m.bunio.s hit maker

He has composed music for theatrical plays:

• Oblomoff in The Drama Theatre in Warsaw where he also plays as DJ; the play features: Maciej Stuhr, Krzysztof Ogloza, Anna Dereszowska, Krzysztof Dracz, Marcin Bosak, and is directed by Andrzej Domagalik
• Fedra in the National Theatre in Warsaw, he co-composed music for the spectacle together with Adam Falkiewicz and Karol Pawlowski. The play features Danuta Stenka, Kamila Baar, Jerzy Englert, and is directed by Maja Kleczewska
• Ksiaze z liliami a dance theatre show by Bozena Eltermann

He has remixed many artists such as Leszek Możdżer, Andrzej Smolik, Mika Urbaniak, Fisz and Tworzywo Sztuczne, Patryk Zakrocki etc.