Professor Witold Osiński

Witold Osiński, sound engi­neer, math­e­mati­cian, drum­mer and gui­tarist, grad­u­ated from War­saw Uni­ver­sity (1982) and the War­saw Acad­emy of Music (1988) in the class of Pro­fes­sor Krystyna Diakon, con­tin­u­a­tor of the aes­thetic ideas and phono­graphic class of one of the founders of the Depart­ment of Sound Engi­neer­ing, Pro­fes­sor Antoni Karużas. W. Osinski’s master’s dis­ser­ta­tion on the phe­nom­e­nol­ogy of phonog­ra­phy won an award at the Sev­enth Pol­ish National Com­pe­ti­tion of Master’s Dis­ser­ta­tions (1990).

W.Osiński has been work­ing at the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music since 1989, first as assis­tant, then as post­doc­toral fel­low (1996) and asso­ciate pro­fes­sor (2004). He was deputy dean of the Depart­ment of Sound Engi­neer­ing in 2000–2004 and dean in 2005–2008. He was re-elected dean of the Depart­ment of Sound Engi­neer­ing in 2008.

W. Osiński has been record­ing since 1988, mainly jazz and ambi­tious pop­u­lar music.

He has also col­lab­o­rated on the sound elab­o­ra­tion of the­atre per­for­mances at the fol­low­ing the­atres: Dra­maty­czny, Współczesny, Stu­dio, Żydowski, Kome­dia. He has co-operated con­tin­u­ally with Roma Music The­atre since 2000.

He has realised many record­ings for the cin­ema, the­atre and tele­vi­sion includ­ing record­ings of the Ortho­dox choir for Andrzej Wajda’s film Nas­tazja and Grze­gorz Ciechowski’s music for Tomasz Magierski’s Magic Broth­ers.

Witold Osiński has worked on the sound ampli­fi­ca­tion of con­certs and litur­gies in churches and of solo and ensem­ble con­certs in con­cert halls and jazz clubs.

In 1997 W.Osiński col­lab­o­rated with pro­fes­sor Krzysztof Grabowski on the com­par­i­son of the hue of nat­ural and arti­fi­cial after­sound (KBN grant) and pre­sented sev­eral papers at sound engi­neer­ing sym­posia. He also con­ducted work­shops at the Fourth War­saw Sci­ence Festival.

W. Osiński believes that the most impor­tant part of the sound engineer’s work is cre­ation of the sonoric and spa­tial val­ues of the sound image.

In his leisure time W. Osiński is a pas­sion­ate moun­tain tourist and also plays chess and reads the works of the found­ing fathers of the catholic church and clas­si­cal and con­tem­po­rary philoso­phers. His favourite authors are T. Mer­ton and C. S. Lewis.