Industrialny pejzaż dźwiękowy jako przestrzeń wewnętrzna artysty w muzyce Trenta Reznora i jego zespołu Nine Inch Nails

Piotr Prusinowski

doi:10.61827/fp2024a10

Authors

Piotr Prusinowski The Provincial and Municipal Public Library in Zielona Góra
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7807-7663 Piotr Prusinowski

https://doi.org/10.61827/fp2024a10

Keywords

industrial rock • inner space • soundscape

Abstract

Trent Reznor, leader and for many years the only constant member of Nine Inch Nails, has been creating music for over three decades that is generally categorised as industrial rock, but which defies clear genre classifications. As a vocalist he frequently jumps from a whisper to an angry or desperate scream and illustrates his anguished, largely autobiographical confessions with violent music which is full of tension even in the moments of introspective calm. In his approach, the soundpainting of a degraded industrial civilization serves as a setting for an extremely subjective vivisection of extreme mental states, strongly colored with autobiographical elements. In the 1990s – the period of Nine Inch Nails’ greatest successes – young listeners, representatives of the so-called Generation X, recognized in these musical psychodramas a reflection of themselves, frustrated and lost in the confusion of modern times.

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Author Biography

Piotr Prusinowski, The Provincial and Municipal Public Library in Zielona Góra

Born in 1987 in Zielona Góra. Doctor of humanities in the discipline of literary studies (title of thesis: Elements of surrealism in film adaptations of Young Poland prose – "Dzieje grzechu" by Walerian Borowczyk and "Na srebrnym globie" by Andrzej Żuławski). Graduate of Polish philology in the field of film studies, television and media culture at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and literary studies at the University of Zielona Góra. His articles have been published in "Images" (UAM), "Biuletyn Edukacji Medialnej" (KUL), "Philologia Polska" (UZ), "Scripta Humana" (UZ), "Forum Poetyki" (UAM), "Litteraria Copernicana" (UMK), "Pro Libris" (WiMBP) and the monographs Culture in the World of Mirrors. Still on uniqueness and multiplications in the art of the 20th and 21st centuries (UMCS), Dirty, disgusting, unwanted in culture (UAM), From the silver screen to paper. Traces of film art in literature (UZ). In 2008 he received a distinction in the Krzysztof Mętrak Competition for Young Film Critics. In the years 2021-2024 he was employed as a literary secretary and program consultant in the Literary Department of the Lubuski Theater in Zielona Góra. Currently he works at the C. Norwid Provincial and Municipal Public Library in Zielona Góra.

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