Oskar Chmioła / Realised / 2 October 2023
Muzyka codzienności
Muzyka codzienności (Music of Everyday Life) was a musical-kinetic performance presented as part of the Między dźwiękami concert held on 2 October 2023 at the Creative Sectors Incubator, 90 Wojska Polskiego Avenue, Szczecin. Oskar Chmioła was responsible for curation and direction; works by participants in his creativity classes were also presented.
Key facts and classification
- Date / period
- 2 October 2023
- Place
- Creative Sectors Incubator, 90 Wojska Polskiego Avenue, Szczecin
- Role and collaborators
- director, educator, curator
- Genre
- musical-kinetic performance; presentation of participants’ works
- Type of event
- social and artistic event
- Approach / perspective
- participatory and educational practice
- Thematic strand (interpretation)
- Listening, environment and composition; Experience and art education
- Style / mode of realisation
- kinetic, collective
The classification is an editorial interpretation. Comparative categories do not imply membership of a movement or a declared source of inspiration.
Description of the work and the artist’s account
Preserved account: visual arts
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October 2023 — Music of Everyday Life (10.2023). Role: curator, director.
The musical-kinetic performance Music of Everyday Life during the event Between Sounds, marking World Music Day and the Polish National Day of People with Developmental Aphasia, with the participation of therapists and people with ASD, P.P. Dzwoneczek, Szczecin; presentation of a cycle of visual artworks created by children, young people and adults during the Creativity Classes led by Chmioła. Curatorship and direction
Music of Everyday Life is a performance showing the musical aspect of everyday reality and drawing attention to the volume of sensory stimuli reaching the brain in daily life. It is an attempt to illustrate how children with autism, Asperger’s, ADHD, developmental aphasia and related disorders process sensory stimuli, and the influence of noise on their everyday functioning.
Everyday sound, accessibility and shared authorship
The action explored the sonic dimension of everyday life: rhythms, gestures and the intensity of stimuli that shape the environment of ordinary activities. Combining movement and music brought this subject into a shared stage experience. In the artist’s account, the work was described as an attempt to portray sensory processing and the impact of noise on the everyday lives of people with different sensory needs. This is an artistic treatment of experience, not a clinical measurement or an account of a single perception shared by everyone on the autism spectrum.
The performance was part of Między dźwiękami, a concert organised by Stowarzyszenie ATOMY to mark World Music Day and Poland’s Day of People with Developmental Aphasia. The concert took place on 2 October 2023, with a programme start of 14:00. That time refers to the whole event, not a separately measured starting time for the performance. The venue was the Creative Sectors Incubator at 90 Wojska Polskiego Avenue in Szczecin. The mention of P.P. Dzwoneczek in the historical account identifies the initiative’s institutional setting, not the concert’s address.
Communication accessibility was an important part of the programme. The announcement provided for AAC/PIC messages and the needs of people on the autism spectrum and with developmental aphasia, with particular attention to preschool-age children. Presenting works by children, young people and adults from the creativity classes linked the event to an earlier educational process. Chmioła shaped its curatorial framework and direction, while the participants retain authorship of their works. The programme’s artistic and inclusive character is not a claim of demonstrated therapeutic efficacy.
The event also contributed to public discussion of participation in culture. A preserved notice dated 28 September 2023 records an interview on Radio Plus Szczecin with Maria Podeszewska Mateńko and Oskar Chmioła about the concert’s purpose and programme. The post date documents the sharing of information about the interview, not necessarily its broadcast date. The organiser named support through Mikrodotacje — Lokalne Przedsięwzięcia FIO w Województwie Zachodniopomorskim 2021–2023, together with NOWEFIO and National Freedom Institute funding.
Images, files and documentation
Related works and performances
Art-historical and humanities contexts
Suggested readings and comparisons, distinguished from documented references.
Listening, environment and composition
John Cage
Experience and art education
John Dewey, Lygia Clark
CV entry supplied by the artist — translation
2023 — Muzyka codzienności (10.2023). Kinetic performance and presentation of works with the participation of people with ASD. Role: director, educator, curator.
Account based on the preserved portfolio and Facebook posts of 25 and 28 September 2023. The artist confirmed that the event took place.