Rafał Mazur

Co-founder of the Intuition Institute, a project dedicated to the development of indeterministic forms of music making. He has toured playing jazz and imrpovised music in Europe, China, Japan, Korea, Russia and Israel. He is currently working with such musicians as Agustí Fernández, Liudas Mockunas, Martin Küchen, Artur Majewski, Peter Ole Jørgensen, Mikołaj Trzaska, Zlatko Kaucic, Lotte Anker, Lisa Ullen, Frederic Blondy, Charlotta Hug, Raymond Strid, Keir Neuringer, François Carrier and Michel Lambert. He releases records on major labels such as Clean Feed, No Business Records, Relative Pitch, Listen Foundation and FMR Records however he is most associated with Not Two Records. His main field of interest and activity is spontaneous improvisation, both solo and collective. As a result of his research, he adapted the ancient Chinese daoist performance strategy to the practice of improvisation in modern music. He is the creator of the Dao of Improvisation workshops – in which he uses Chinese martial arts training methods to improve spontaneous improvisation skills. He also holds a doctorate in philosophy and his main research subjects are philosophy of improvisation, Chinese thought system, Daoist philosophy, evolutionary aesthetics and naturalistic philosophy of art.