I’m KSAMUS /Przemek Książek / a composer and sound designer with over 30 years of experience working across video games, film, television, classical and popular music. I am the founder of Studio Silenzio, collaborating with clients including Microsoft, Porsche, Volvo Trucks and Red Prawn Games. I specialise in blending live acoustic instruments with synthesised sound to create immersive and expressive musical worlds. I am a graduate of the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and the Academy of Music in Łódź (composition). I compose music for film, theatre, advertising and games, and have worked with clients such as TVN, Polish Radio, Polish Television and Sony Music. My work has been recognised at international festivals in New York, Houston, Los Angeles and Milan. Alongside my commercial work, I am also an active performing musician. In projects such as Ksamus, Projekt Leśmian and Annk_a, I combine synthesisers with live instrumentation. I also compose contemporary classical music, including Concerto Breve, Flute Concerto and Partita per Quattro d’Archi, as well as children’s music released via Sony Music and Empik Go. Selected credits include: Photon (dir. Norman Leto), Diablo. Race for Everything, Antybohater, Mundial: The Highest Stakes, and An American in Communist Poland (Gold Medal, New York Festivals, 2010); Volvo Trucks Deutschland – Reality Road (audio post-production supervisor); Robot Wasteland (Red Prawn Games, 2015 – full soundtrack and sound design). Awards include: Gold Medal — The New York Festivals (2010); Hollywood Eagle Documentary Award, Los Angeles (2013); Golden Whistle — Kicking & Screening Soccer Film Festival, New York (2013); Special Jury Award — WorldFest Houston (2010); Ministry of Culture Award, Poland (2014). _Email not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ ·_Phone details not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ · _Email not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ · silenzio.pl

Przemysław Książek

I’m KSAMUS /Przemek Książek / a composer and sound designer with over 30 years of experience working across video games, film, television, classical and popular music. I am the founder of Studio Silenzio, collaborating with clients including Microsoft, Porsche, Volvo Trucks and Red Prawn Games. I specialise in blending live acoustic instruments with synthesised sound to create immersive and expressive musical worlds. I am a graduate of the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and the Academy of Music in Łódź (composition). I compose music for film, theatre, advertising and games, and have worked with clients such as TVN, Polish Radio, Polish Television and Sony Music. My work has been recognised at international festivals in New York, Houston, Los Angeles and Milan. Alongside my commercial work, I am also an active performing musician. In projects such as Ksamus, Projekt Leśmian and Annk_a, I combine synthesisers with live instrumentation. I also compose contemporary classical music, including Concerto Breve, Flute Concerto and Partita per Quattro d’Archi, as well as children’s music released via Sony Music and Empik Go. Selected credits include: Photon (dir. Norman Leto), Diablo. Race for Everything, Antybohater, Mundial: The Highest Stakes, and An American in Communist Poland (Gold Medal, New York Festivals, 2010); Volvo Trucks Deutschland – Reality Road (audio post-production supervisor); Robot Wasteland (Red Prawn Games, 2015 – full soundtrack and sound design). Awards include: Gold Medal — The New York Festivals (2010); Hollywood Eagle Documentary Award, Los Angeles (2013); Golden Whistle — Kicking & Screening Soccer Film Festival, New York (2013); Special Jury Award — WorldFest Houston (2010); Ministry of Culture Award, Poland (2014). _Email not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ ·_Phone details not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ · _Email not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ · silenzio.pl

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I’m KSAMUS /Przemek Książek / a composer and sound designer with over 30 years of experience working across video games, film, television, classical and popular music. I am the founder of Studio Silenzio, collaborating with clients including Microsoft, Porsche, Volvo Trucks and Red Prawn Games. I specialise in blending live acoustic instruments with synthesised sound to create immersive and expressive musical worlds.

I am a graduate of the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and the Academy of Music in Łódź (composition). I compose music for film, theatre, advertising and games, and have worked with clients such as TVN, Polish Radio, Polish Television and Sony Music. My work has been recognised at international festivals in New York, Houston, Los Angeles and Milan.

Alongside my commercial work, I am also an active performing musician. In projects such as Ksamus, Projekt Leśmian and Annk_a, I combine synthesisers with live instrumentation. I also compose contemporary classical music, including Concerto Breve, Flute Concerto and Partita per Quattro d’Archi, as well as children’s music released via Sony Music and Empik Go.

Selected credits include: Photon (dir. Norman Leto), Diablo. Race for Everything, Antybohater, Mundial: The Highest Stakes, and An American in Communist Poland (Gold Medal, New York Festivals, 2010); Volvo Trucks Deutschland – Reality Road (audio post-production supervisor); Robot Wasteland (Red Prawn Games, 2015 – full soundtrack and sound design).

Awards include: Gold Medal — The New York Festivals (2010); Hollywood Eagle Documentary Award, Los Angeles (2013); Golden Whistle — Kicking & Screening Soccer Film Festival, New York (2013); Special Jury Award — WorldFest Houston (2010); Ministry of Culture Award, Poland (2014).

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Work Experience

Composer / Sound Designer / Music Producer at Freelance & Studio Silenzio
December 1, 2016 - Present
- Film composer: PHOTON (dir. Norman Leto, 2017), DIABLO. WYŚCIG O WSZYSTKO (dir. M. Otłowski), ANTYBOHATER (dir. M. Kawecki), NAD WISŁĄ (dir. A. Korycka), 110% (dir. P. Gala, 2015), W MGNIENIU OKA (dir. M. Bielawski, 2015), 1989 (dir. M. Bielawski, 2014), W POSZUKIWANIU UTRACONEGO KRAJOBRAZU (dir. L. Kantor, 2014), AMERYKANIN W PRL-U (dir. P. Morawski, 2009), NIEWYGODNY (dir. G. Linkowski, 2009), ŚWIAT WEDŁUG BŁ
Audio engineer at Studio Silenzio
April 27, 2021 - Present
Audio post-production supervisor & sound designer: PHOTON, 110%, W MGNIENIU OKA, MOJE JEST INNE, DRUŻYNA, 1989, 89-91 WYRWALIŚMY SIĘ NA WOLNOŚĆ, MUNDIAL. GRA O WSZYSTKO, NIEWYGODNY, ŚWIAT WEDŁUG BŁAZNA, HISTORIA PEWNEGO SUMIENIA. SPOTKANIE, SPACER Z DZIENNIKIEM
Performing Artist at Freelancer
April 27, 2026 - Present
Albums & releases (as Ksamus / artist): Ksamus — Electrango, Hyperlight Moovers Projekt Leśmian — Projekt Leśmian, Wszechlśnienie Danzabile (string quartet & accordion, 2000) Sirli — For My Love (2013, composer, producer, mixer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-lff4bwOY Katarzyna Lorenc — Woda (2017, co-composer, producer, mix & master) Karolina Brodniewicz — Inny Świat (2011, co-producer) Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/17ooUB0Q9PGlD2dVn7ZORF

Education

Accordion performance at Chopin University of Music, Warsaw
January 1, 1994 - January 1, 1999
Composition at G. & K. Bacewicz Music Academy, Łódź
January 1, 1998 - January 1, 2001

Qualifications

Prizes for movies
April 27, 2026 - April 27, 2026
AWARDS — Przemysław Książek ============================ 2024 ---- TRANSGRESSION (TRANSGRESJA) Porto Women's Film Festival "Porto Femme" (Porto, Portugal) Special Distinction in the Student Film Competition 2023 ---- NOT A HERO AT ALL (ANTYBOHATER) International Documentary and Scientific Film Festival (Pärnu, Estonia) Audience Award 2022 ---- NOT A HERO AT ALL (ANTYBOHATER) European Film Festival "Integration — You and Me" (Koszalin, Poland) Special Distinction in the Documentary Film category for "finding a cinematic form that allows the protagonist to simply be themselves" ON THE VISTULA (NAD WISŁĄ) International Film Festival "Zoom-Zbliżenia" (Jelenia Góra, Poland) Special Distinction 2021 ---- NOT A HERO AT ALL (ANTYBOHATER) Krakow Film Festival — Polish Competition (Krakow, Poland) Jury Special Distinction for "tremendous sensitivity and psychological acuity, creating a visually and narratively compelling documentary that blurs genre boundaries and becomes pure cinema" NOT A HERO AT ALL (ANTYBOHATER) Film Festival "Opolskie Lamy" (Opole, Poland) Special Distinction in the Documentary Film Competition BY THE RIVER (NAD WISŁĄ) LGBT Film Festival (Warsaw, Poland) Award for Best Short Film 2019 ---- PHOTON Andrzej Munk Award (awarded by the Polish National Film School) Special Distinction for "a searingly human narrative executed with surgical precision at the molecular level" 2018 ---- PHOTON International Animated Film Festival "Animator" (Poznań, Poland) Award for Best Feature Film PHOTON Polityka Passport (cultural award of weekly "Polityka") Award in the Visual Arts category for "building bridges between art and science, also in the latest work — the film Photon, impressive in its intellectual and creative scope" PHOTON Koszalin Film Debut Festival "Young and Film" (Koszalin, Poland) Grand Amber Award for a full-length debut feature for "its ambition and original vision executed without inhibition, which leaves the viewer enriched" PHOTON Polish Film Festival "FilmPolska" (Berlin, Germany) Jury Special Distinction 2017 ---- PHOTON International Film Festival "New Horizons" (Wrocław, Poland) Audience Award PHOTON Polish Feature Film Festival (Gdynia, Poland) Golden Claw — "A Different Perspective" Competition 2014 ---- MUNDIAL. THE HIGHEST STAKES (MUNDIAL. GRA O WSZYSTKO) Zamość Historical Film Festival "Meetings with History" (Zamość, Poland) Award for Best Documentary Film MUNDIAL. THE HIGHEST STAKES (MUNDIAL. GRA O WSZYSTKO) International Sports Film Festival (Milan, Italy) Honorary Distinction — category: Film & TV, Football, Great Masters 1989 Documentary Film Festival "Nurt" (Kielce, Poland) Minister of Culture Award for "a thorough and formally inventive account of our 25th anniversary of regaining independence, through the selection and creative use of archival film material" 2013 ---- MUNDIAL. THE HIGHEST STAKES (MUNDIAL. GRA O WSZYSTKO) Docs Against Gravity Film Festival (Warsaw, Poland) Special Distinct

Industry Experience

Gaming, Media & Entertainment