An experimental music studio in Warsaw that operated between 1957 and 2004.
One of the most important tracks made in this studio was by the composer Krzysztof Penderecki. Thirty minute long “Death Brigade” (1963) is based on a journal from IIWW which belonged to Leon Wilczker. A jew who was forced to cover up Nazi crimes and burned the bodies of the killed ones. Penderecki uses heartbeat sounds and mix it beuatifully with electric sounds.
Fragment of Wilczko’s journal:
‘We are standing among dead bodies in a tight formation, surrounded by blood clots. We don’t know whether we’re waiting to be killed or taken to spend yet another night in the death prison like the three brigades before us. Our “Ober Juden” Herr Fess reports the headcount. There are forty-two of us. We can hear “Rechts um.” Everyone turns right. But the turning is not as brisk as in the camp because of the dead bodies strewn about us. […] We fall silent, looking at one another. We can hear the sounds of music that accompanies people on their way back to the camp. It is raining. I wake up. I can hear moaning. Another cursed day! It is seven o’clock. The leader of Schutzpolizei shouts “Raus!” We all come out. We sit on the ground in groups of five just like yesterday evening. Zechsführer counts us – the number is correct. They give us twice the camp ration of bread and one litre of sweet coffee. We get up, lock our arms and march the same way we got here yesterday.’