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Experimental,minimalist,electronic avant-garde composer and conceptual artist, PatrickDorobisz (né Patrick Dorobisz-Kondracki), was born a Polish national in France, on May 25,1955, to Polish and Lithuanian parents. He lives in France.

His interests in music, drawing and painting developed at an early age, and in his13 th year, he became a naturalized French citizen.
Dorobisz studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he began producing his first repetitive electro-acoustic music compositions and sound installations. Duringthe70s, he experimented with analog devices of the time, combining early synthesizers and tape recorders.

Come the 80s, he started using computers in1983, reprocessed this discord with computer technology, and by the 90s, pursued digital reconstruction of acoustic models: the physical "modeling", of acoustic sounds.
Dorobisz is presently working with these diverse music systems by targeting the familiar-classical instruments supported by alive, traditional quartet, chamber orchestra,or Live electronic.
All various aural locales are, as Dorobisz says, "a chance for us to discover imaginary sound spaces which are differente verytime...Universes within musical architecture derives, above all, from pictorial research."

After obtaining a diploma in architecture Dorobisz, received a National Diploma in Fine Arts, in1976, he began transferring themes inspired by art and architecture into music. His first definitive piece, “John’sCollage" 1973, is the result of assembling collages of magnetic tapes for the progressive rock group John's-Omintone.This music experiment employed deliberate and simultaneous play of several unsynchronized tape loops,achieving microtonal discord.
That same year, Dorobisz wrote“ Patrick Dorobisz Experimental guitar 1973," anLP for electric guitar, Repetitive Music.
Dorobisz will say about this LP: all my music comes from this album with my first experiences with tape loops and by using pre-recorded audio on stage.

Dorobisz's earlier works were performed in France and Germany between 1974 and 1980. Then, in1984, up on invitation by composer Lucien Goethals, Director of Ghent's IPEM (Institute for Psychoacoustic and Electronic Music), Dorobisz at 29, relocated to Belgium where he scored, "Kontrapunkt", "leGaisavoir", "L'orpheon de Jade" (computer version), "Souprematika, "winning the International Electro-acoustic Award at the Bourges Festival (1986). He continued research at the Institute’s studio until1987.

After leaving IPEM, Dorobisz created additional pieces: "Alice de l'autre côté du miroir, "performed live at the Lille Opera House, "Luminis", "Narvik" for symphony orchestra, "Leserpent d'or" cello counterpoint, "String Quartet N°2", "Treblinka" for symphony orchestra and choir, and "Autresdirections," a recorded entry for the Seoul Computer Music Festival in 1997. "Geometria" at:The Sound of Israel in Berlin, 1997; "3+11", at the International Music Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA....etc.The latter was performed once more between 2003-2006 at The Auditorium, in Lille, France with his Computer Music Ensemble, at Arras theater (Steve reich concert-2011), Lille III University (2013)

The essence of Dorobisz's work fosters a synesthetic experience in which music transcends sound, through repetitive music, computer music, and ar ttranscends images.The interplay between imaginary landscapes, the rigor of the mathematical writing and soundspaces, gives ears and eyes another vision of contemporary music.

His work is multiple, protean, plastic and conceptual. From Dorobisz's first electronic experiments to his string quartets, his music never leaves the listener indifferent.
Patrick approaches contemporary music with the vision of a painter, architect, and artist composer. When asked by an American music critic what it was like to create both visual art and also music, he responded: "What's the difference? I'm either painting on time or painting on a canvas…I’m fascinated by time because, it does not exist. It’s the man’s creation.
minimalist composer Patrick Dorobisz - Computer music, Experimental Music, Minimalist music, New contemporary music, minimal art, painting, biography,
Patrick Dorobisz
analog 70's - writing (1975) - mixing console - radio (1982) - José Berghmans Lucien Goethals (1985) - Performance - Computer 1983