iubar project web site | Philosophy of Sound

iubar is an award-winning collaborative audiovisual and music project based in Melbourne, Australia and led by Polish-born artist and researcher Martin K. Koszolko. A producer and composer associated with electronic and indie pop acts KOshowKO and Philosophy of Sound, Koszolko holds a doctorate examining remote music collaboration technologies and maintains an active profile as a scholar-practitioner in sound research, creative media, and technologically mediated musical practice.

The project’s aesthetic centres on narrative-driven ambient composition realised through hybridised analogue–digital processes, integrating field recording, mobile production systems, and site-responsive sound design. iubar’s origins date to 2009, when early source recordings made in Poland by guitarist Jarek Binkowski formed the basis of the project’s first works. Since then, iubar has pursued distributed and asynchronous collaboration models, including work with Modus Op on Untold, a composition incorporating archival family speech that reflects on wartime experience. In 2019 the project released Nowy, an internationally networked production created with musicians located in England, Australia, and Croatia who collaborated entirely without meeting physically.

iubar performances foreground experimental interaction between performer, audience, and environment, employing mobile music-making systems and live sampling methodologies developed through site-specific appearances across Europe and Australia. The project has received multiple international accolades, including two Best Music awards in 2021 for compositions featured in the short film Earth and the Best Music prize at the Green Philosophy Film Festival in 2022. These recognised works appear alongside additional material on the debut album Survival Tactics, released in March 2023 via Vivarium Recordings.

iubar’s audiovisual works have also been presented internationally in gallery and festival contexts. Daylesford Naturalix was selected for the Sonic Nomads Festival in Seoul. Installations created with collaborator Max Schleser have been exhibited at Radius Art Space in Hepburn Springs and at Watt Space Gallery in Newcastle, where the Time Traces installation presented multiscreen projection, printed visual works, and premiere audio pieces as part of the New Annual Festival. Additional international presentation includes audio presentations in Braga, Portugal as part of the Braga 25 programme, featuring compositions from the iubar catalogue.

Through its integration of distributed collaboration, environmental sound, and audiovisual installation, iubar explores intersections between experimental music, media art, and research-led creative practice, with a focus on developing thoughtful, process-driven works that engage audiences across different listening and viewing contexts.

iubar project discography:

iubar project – ‘Survival Tactics‘, Vivarium Recordings, USA 2023 (Bandcamp) and 2024 (streaming services)
iubar project – ‘Daylesford Naturalis: During Covid Lockdown #4‘, Las Maquinas, Australia 2022
iubar project – ‘Nowy’, Las Maquinas, Australia 2019
Reuben Ingall and David Finnigan – ‘The Bolted Report (Special Edition)’, Clan Analogue, Australia 2018 [remixed and produced ‘Bolted (iubar project ‘High Remix’)’ ]
iubar project – ‘Above the Ground’, 4-4-2 Music, Australia 2012

compilation releases

iubar project – ‘Renewed Communal Hopes’ on Various Artists – ‘WFLS #28‘, Works For Loudspeakers, New Zealand, 2024
iubar project – ‘Wombat Creek and Forest, Near the ‘Cottage’ on Various Artists – ‘16 Soundscapes‘, Biodiversità Records, Italy, 2023
iubar project – ‘Communal Hopes’ on Various Artists – ‘Communal Music Vol. 9‘, AEMC Records, Netherlands 2021
iubar project – ‘Coda’ on Various Artists – ‘One Minute Compositions‘, AEMC Records, Netherlands 2021
iubar project – ‘Empathy in Action’ on Various Artists – ‘Distance: Sounds for an Empty Space‘, Clan Analogue, Australia 2020
iubar project – ‘Earth 2’ on Various Artists – ‘Ambient Online Themed Compilation 11: Mars‘, Ambient Online, USA 2020
iubar project vs Modus Op – ‘Untold’ on Various Artists – ‘Coordinate: Collaboration Beyond the Algorithm’, Clan Analogue, Australia 2017
iubar project – ‘America’ on Various Artists – ‘Noise is Anarchy’, Apptronica, USA 2016
iubar project – ‘America’ on Various Artists – ‘Fuck This Manifesto’, Dark Works, USA 2016
iubar project – ‘America’ on Various Artists – ‘No More Gun Violence, Vol. II’, No More Gun Violence, USA 2016