Jagoda Szmytka

Jagoda Szmytka composes contextual music for the ears, eyes, and mind. Her audiovisual compositions, written for various amplified formations and mixed media, are organized as rhisomatic connections between sounds, images, and texts. Her composition methods (social or community composing) depend on creating social music for people, with people, and about people: music concerned with issues that are important to society as a whole, community music, and the utilization and topicalization of social media. Thus a composition’s value acquires an ethical dimension. A piece proves a success if it provides a stimulus for reflection and change, and if participation in the creative process stimulates at least one of the players to think. What counts first and foremost is the playing itself: “play music and send a meaningful message”. Szmytka is the founder of PLAY, a platform for art and culture initiatives in Frankfurt am Main.