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Around Geek brings together small, focused websites about sound, culture, technology and whatever deserves a closer look. Each project lives on its own subdomain and keeps its own identity.

Category / Music

Listen across the decades

001 · SOUND LABORATORY

Signals 50–59

A bilingual archive of tape studios, musique concrète, oscillators and the composers who established electronic sound as a new musical material.

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002 · RADIO WORKSHOP

Signals 60–69

Radiophonic workshops, modular systems, computer music and global experiments documented through 99 qualified artists and lawful catalog previews.

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003 · SOUND ARCHIVE

Signals 70–79

A Polish-first, bilingual electronic-music archive spanning artists, releases and sounds of the 1970s—with sourced histories, filters, timelines and lawful catalog previews.

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004 · MIDI TRANSMISSION · BOUNDED LIVE SCAFFOLD

Signals 80–89

A verified bilingual starting point for the decade of MIDI, drum machines, synth-pop and electro: 443 qualified artists and 32 lawful previews while full-corpus qualification continues.

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005 · RAVE NETWORK · BOUNDED LIVE SCAFFOLD

Signals 90–99

A source-qualified 24-artist sample with 21 lawful previews from the decade of samplers, trackers, rave, techno, house and early cyberculture. Full discovery is complete; qualification continues.

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006 · FILE SIGNAL · BOUNDED LIVE SCAFFOLD

Signals 00–09

Ten evidence-qualified signals and ten lawful previews from the era of laptops, MP3s, microsound, netlabels and digital club mutations. Full discovery is complete; qualification continues.

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More independent sites will join the collection over time.

Category / Polish Modern Painting

Eleven decades of Polish modern painting

Evidence-led archives of Polish modern painters from the 1920s to the 2020s. Every gallery contains paintings only, with sourced painter profiles and rights-verified images.

007 · FORMISM / CONSTRUCTIVISM · BOUNDED LIVE

Polish Modern Painting 1920–1929

Formism, Constructivism, Expressionism and other modern currents documented through painters and paintings only.

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008 · COLOURISM / AVANT-GARDE · BOUNDED LIVE

Polish Modern Painting 1930–1939

Colourism, the avant-garde and interwar modern painting documented through painters and paintings only.

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009 · WAR / POST-WAR PAINTING · BOUNDED LIVE

Polish Modern Painting 1940–1949

Modern painting made through occupation, exile, survival and the first post-war reckonings.

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010 · COLOURISM / ABSTRACTION · BOUNDED LIVE

Polish Modern Painting 1950–1959

Colourism, abstraction, matter painting and the post-1956 thaw, presented through paintings only.

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011 · ABSTRACTION / NEW FIGURATION · BOUNDED LIVE

Polish Modern Painting 1960–1969

A paintings-only research archive for abstraction, new figuration and other modern currents of the decade.

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012 · PAINTING / CONCEPTUAL ERA · BOUNDED LIVE

Polish Modern Painting 1970–1979

A paintings-only research archive for Polish painters working through the conceptual era.

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013 · NEW EXPRESSION / RESISTANCE · BOUNDED LIVE

Polish Modern Painting 1980–1989

New Expression, political witness and independent circulation, documented through paintings only.

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014 · TRANSFORMATION / PAINTING · BOUNDED LIVE

Polish Modern Painting 1990–1999

Painting through post-communist transformation, new institutions and changing visual languages.

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015 · CONTEMPORARY PAINTING · BOUNDED LIVE

Polish Modern Painting 2000–2009

Contemporary Polish painting in a newly connected European and international context.

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016 · GLOBAL / CONTEMPORARY PAINTING · BOUNDED LIVE

Polish Modern Painting 2010–2019

Globally connected contemporary Polish painters and their paintings, subject to strict evidence and rights review.

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017 · PRESENT-TENSE PAINTING · BOUNDED LIVE

Polish Modern Painting 2020–2029

An evolving, paintings-only record of contemporary Polish painters in the present decade.

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These bounded research editions remain under active evidence and rights review.