Rafal Mazur

Rafal Mazur is a Polish bassist based in Kraków who works in solo and collective free improvisation. He began with cello studies in Kraków and moved to the bass guitar in the late 1980s. Since 2000 he has played an acoustic bass guitar built to his own design by the luthier Jerzy Wysocki, using extended techniques and gesture as the core of his language. Mazur founded the ImproArt improvisation studio and runs the Laboratory of Intuition, a series of spontaneous art events in Kraków.