„W reakcji na obraz…”. Wokół muzyki filmowej Józefa Rychlika
”In response to the image…”. Around the film music of Józef Rychlik

Summary/Abstract: Józef Rychlik, the Cracovian composer born in 1946, music theorist, teacher, student of Bogusław Schaeffer and former trainee at the famous IRCAM in Paris, also became the protagonist of Jerzy Ridan’s film about him. Ridan, a screenwriter and director from Kraków, an outstanding documentarist (with over 60 documentaries to his credit, which have won prizes at festivals around the world) decided in 1992 to create a film about his friend the composer. He wanted to show both his multidimensional nature and – perhaps most importantly – Rychlik’s work, both his independent compositions as well as his film music. Although the composer’s oeuvre up to 2019 includes over 50 compositions (vocal, vocal-instrumental, instrumental; solo, chamber and symphonic; for traditional instruments and electroacoustic ones, works following the discipline of notation and traditional form, as well as graphic compositions and open forms), an equally substantial portion of his music constitutes work dear to Rychlik’s heart in the service of a particular performance: a vernissage, choreographic arrangement, theatre and film. The composer’s specific personality traits, such as sensitivity to his surrounding reality, his capacity for observation and immediate reflection, in a way predestined him to be the writer of music for 34 movies (including two feature films, 21 documentaries, 9 animations, one choreographic musical, one autobiographical) and 19 theatre plays. The text is an attempt to confront the composer’s self-retlection, often of a retrospective, nostalgie nature, with the interpretation of a detached researcher proposing his own „seeing and hearing” of Rychlik’s music.

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