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I have recently been interviewed by Paul Virostek from Creative Field Recording in his series Month of Field Recordists. Here’s a link Big thanks to Paul for the invitation.

Recently, The Red Spider film by Marcin Koszałka was released here in Poland. I had the great honour to work on it as a sound designer. It’s definitely one of my favourite films I have ever worked on. Based on the true story of a serial killer from 1960s Kraków mixed with urban legends about other serial killers of that times, it is a very unique psychological thriller, which is an art-house film at the same time. Sh

This is something I was planning to do for some time. Shootout of different contact microphones I own and methods of attaching them to the surface. Since I love recording using contact mics, I have a few of them. They give unique perspective for field recording and results are always unknown, which I find exciting. In my collection I have (so far): – Barcus Berry Plenar Wave System 4000 – JrF C-Series con

Some time ago I was invited to become consultant of Museum of Municipal Engineering in Krakow for international project Work with Sounds. The aim of the project is to record and share (!) sounds of professions and industrial soundscapes passing away. It unites six museums of technology from EU. What a fantastic idea. I am so happy that people start considering sound as a heritage. And what is even more exciting for u

This summer I had a great time, spending vacations on an island in Croatia. Being close to the sea and having my recording gear with me, couldn’t end up different than recording it. And the (sea) food out there was absolutely delicious… Water is always very surprising sonically. Walking along the sea shore, which mostly was rocky, I found this great sound of water and air injecting between rocks, splashin

Some time ago a friend recommended me to buy online secondhand Sennheiser MKH 815T. This mic is very old, they were built in the 70s, so I wasn’t expecting much. I had no long shotgun mic before, it was cheap (especially comparing to its successor MKH 70), so I though it might be fine sometimes. It needs additional power converter (it’s powered by 12V) and DIN to XLR cable. How was I surprised comparing i

Some time ago I was out in the mountains for a weekend having great time with my family. And my mics too. Being very busy recently, supervising and designing sounds for a feature I didn’t have much free time left, but here is what I managed to record then. It was the first time when I took out my new mics – hydrophones and contact mics made by Jez Riley French. I have Aquarian H2a hydrophone which I liked

No, not Easter chicks. Over the last weekend I decided to get up early and taking the opportunity that there wasn’t traffic noise, record some new birds for my library. Cutting atmospheres I always like to be inspired and surprised by what I find in my library. And I don’t like using the same sounds over and over. Plus I think it’s not fair for films/directors. I managed to record a few different ec

Recently, having a weekend out in the mountains and scouting around with a microphone, I came across to this sound. From the distance it sounded like a quiet traffic noise, or distant train. When I moved closer to it, it came out that it was frogs mating in the pond. All the pond was full of spawn. I regretted that I didn’t take hydrophone with me, it could sound interesting from that perspective. Anyway, I wil