In Chopin Residue, the creative process is part of the artwork.
Vinyl threads are cut from deconstructed music, carefully transformed into visual forms, and captured on video.
The project explores the intersection of sound, matter, and image - where every action, from cutting to recording, becomes an essential layer of the work.

Process.
Transformation.
Material.
Sound.
Vision.

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What if music could leave a physical trace?
Each painting in this series was made using threads carved from vinyl records - the literal residue of Chopin's deconstructed sound.
The process: cutting → collecting → composing.
Nine large-scale works. Each one built from absence, shaped by memory, suspended between sound and silence.
This is Chopin, turned inside out.
Chopin Residue by Mariusz Szypura.

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Before the sound becomes vinyl, it’s cut.
One by one.
81 records.
Each carved live, in isolation, over two days.
Not duplication — destruction.
The lathe is a ritual tool, not a machine.
What it leaves behind becomes the core of the installation.
Thread, dust, silence.
Captured in @BunkierSztuki in Kraków.

Chopin Residue by Mariusz Szypura

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freshly screenprinted cover for our new MERZBOW 9inch lathe-cut "Magpie" vinyl

Thanks to Willem Kolvoort for the illustration

Frei zum Abriss Kollektiv, #37

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