Fred Szymanski is a New York-based electroacoustic composer and sound-and-image artist whose work explores non-linear processes linked to generative systems.

Szymanski’s sound works have been presented at international festivals, including, most recently: Convergence Festival (England, 2019), SEAMUS Festival (Boston, 2019), Città di Udine (Italy, 2018), International Festival of Experimental Music (Bratislava, 2018), New York City Electroacoustic Festival (2019), Musica Nova (Prague, 2017), Matera Intermedia Festival (Italy, 2016), International Computer Music Festival, Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia, (UNT, 2015), and Monaco International Electroacoustic Festival (2015).

His image-sound works have been featured at the Recombinant Media Lab’s Cinechamber at Mutek (Montreal) and CTM.11 Festival (Berlin) as well as in NOMÁDES - Onomato Künstlerverein Gallery (Düsseldorf), SonicLIGHT (Amsterdam), the 9th Biennial of the Moving Image (Geneva), and the European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück).

Szymanski has been the recipient of several awards, including First Prize Musica Nova (2017), Concours International de Composition Electroacoustique de Monaco, Premier Prix Electroacoustique (2015), and Special Mention Città di Udine (2018), as well as Honorary Mention Matera Intermedia Festival (2016) and Honorary Mention Destellos X (2017).

Under the moniker, A Laminar Project, he has had releases with Sub Rosa (Belgium), Asphodel Ltd. (San Francisco), JDK Productions (Amsterdam), Soleilmoon (Portland), and Staalplaat (Amsterdam).

Installations by Szymanski have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of the show, BitStreams (2001), and at such venues as the Diapason Gallery for Sound (New York), Artists Space (New York), and the Valencia Biennial’s VideoRom. An early work was part of the Sonorità Prospettiche (Prospective sonorities) program at Suono, Ambiente (Rimini, Italy), and travelled to the Venice Biennale, Kulturforum (Bonn), Kulturreferat (Munich), Lugano, Switzerland and the City of Turin.

Szymanski studied art and electronic music at the Rhode Island School of Design and performed multichannel live electronic music in Boston and Providence before relocating to New York in the late nineteen hundreds. During that time as an explorer of experimental electronic industrial-noise, produced LPs for the labels, Factory America (U.S. offshoot of Factory Records) and Disques du Crepuscule (Belgium).