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The Living Instruments

A term coined by Marek Styczyński to denote the category of undurable instruments made from plants (e.g. the fadno - idioglottic clarinet made by the Saami in Scandinavia build by Angelica archangelica or Angelica silvestris)

You are on Marek Styczynski webside. Marek Styczyński (M.Sc.) is a forestry engineer , a musician and a specialist in mountain ecology. His specialties are musical ethnobotany and magic plants of the Carpathian Mountains. With his wife, Phd Anna Nacher, they work on their The Lost Space : Magic Carpathians Project concerning experimental music, based both on new technologies and ancient sources of Eurasian culture. Together they recorded several albums available in Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain and the USA. Looking for inspiration and interesting musical techniques they visited India, Nepal, Central Asia, the Balkans, Canada and the USA as well as the land of Saam beyond the Polar Circle. They are both authors of alternative guidebooks, scientific publications and numerous press articles.