Biography
CZUCHWICKI is contemporary musician Jonty Czuchwicki - a second generation Australian from Adelaide, who belongs to a proud migrant family of Polish and Hungarian cultural background.
As a drummer, producer and audiovisual artist, CZUCHWICKI’s music practice is a fluid blend of electronic music production, sound design, traditional instrumentation and audio reactive visuals. CZUCHWICKi is influenced by a diverse range of movements, encompassing downtempo, ambient, house, techno, IDM, industrial, alternative, coldwave, metal and trip-hop, resulting in a distinctive and recognisable sound.
Jonty is an avid musician, earning a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Music Performance and Entertainment Management from Collarts in 2021 and a Master of Arts in Music Production, Technology and Innovation from Berklee College of Music in 2023.
In 2021 CZUCHWICKI released their Reocurring Dream EP, and in the following years developed an innovative audiovisual live show entitled Phosphenes which blends electronic percussion with controllerism, singing and audioreactive visuals. CZUCHWICKI debuted the Phoshenes AV show in May 2023 and released an EP of the same name in 2024.
CZUCHWICKI is the first artist from Adelaide to be accepted into and complete the Music Production, Technology and Innovation Postgraduate Program at Berklee Valencia. While attending this program they wrote their master’s thesis titled Electronic Music and the Drumset: Combining and Extending Approaches for Innovation.
While in Valencia, CZUCHWICKI performed and delivered a Q&A on audiovisuals in music at the Inocon: Music & Technology Conference, opened the La Nit de Berklee Concert at the Palace of Queen Sofia and headlined a Lago de Conciertos Open Air Concert.
Recently CZUCHWICKI was invited to produce a season of the Phosphenes AV show at the 2024 Melbourne Fringe Festival Hub, which took place in October. Phosphenes will debut at the 2025 Adelaide Fringe with a performance at The Lab in March.