For Polish modern Mud Cavaliers (Kawalerowie Błotni) are kind of "super group" (and that's rare). The band members are:
- Krzysztof Knittel - electronics,
- Jerzy Kornowicz - piano,
- Ryszard Latecki - trumpet, percussion,
- Mieczysław Litwiński - percussion, vocals, other…,
- Tadeusz Sudnik - electrionics,
- Tadeusz Wielecki - double bass.
English bio of Mud Cavaliers is available online if you need it (lacking note about Ryszard Latecki, who is currently in the line-up and is the one who takes care for YouTube recordings, so check him there).
Musicians of Mud Cavaliers have connections to jazz, ethnic/traditional, classical and other genres and collaborated (individually) with such a aces as John Cage or Tomasz Stańko. They are also (still individually) Warsaw Autumn festival organizers, were students of the festival originators, and now regularly preside in Polish Composers Society. All in all, they have a strong influence on Polish culture. Their collective explorations are certainly hard to idiomatize, but may be described as modern/intuitive.
One event very fitting to the topic of music games is performing open concepts together with musicians foreign to the field of modern music. Their annual "Market for new and used sounds" is a kind of a workshop that gathers participants from many different styles of music to perform in an avant-garde oriented project.
It is an "anti-elitist" experience that allows to peek at compositional/arranging process and share ideas or discuss approaches. Resulting live pieces are quite often gamey in appearance and performance, especially in the conducting aspect:
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