Antonina Nowacka is a vocalist, sound artist and composer, originally from Poland now based in Italy. Through the years of exploration and studies of various music traditions she has developed an unique, deeply relaxing and hypnotic voice quality reminiscent of a theremin.
She creates subtle and minimalistic soundscapes taking a listener on imaginative journeys inspired by nature, space, dreams and otherworldly happenings.
A graduate of the Faculty of Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she studied at the Mirosław Bałka's studio of Spatial Activities. A holder of the Scholarship provided by the Indonesian Ministry of Culture on the musicology at ISI Yogyakarta (2018/2019). A former student of Hindustani classical vocal tradition under the supervision of the master of the Gwalior style - Shashwati Mandal.
She has performed around the world in concert spaces and galleries, such as Lincoln Centre in New York, Barbican Centre in London, Silent Green in Berlin, Centro National de las Artes in Mexico City, La Casa Encendida in Madrid, Bourse de Commerce in Paris, BOZAR in Brussels, Maison de Lorette in Lyon, Oxilia Gallery in Milan, PONEC Theatre in Prague, National Museum in Warsaw. She collaborated, among others, with Agnieszka Polska (Plan Tysiacletni), Nicolas Jaar (Weavings), Sofie Birch (Languoria).
Press:
Pitchfork
„What’s most remarkable about her delivery is her tight, quick vibrato, which quivers in a steady, rapid-fire stream, like a magnetic field”
The Quietus
„Nowacka has such a distinctive voice and way of singing that makes me feel she is singing from beyond a threshold. She opens a small portal to a world not quite the same as this one.”