KINETIC CONTINUUM
Dynamic fields of sound, light and color under the night sky
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A night sky performance of live light painting, electronic sounds and improvisational piano composition. Kinetic Continuum is a “New Music Under the Big Sky” performance that will take you on a journey—an immersive musical experience like nothing you have experienced before.
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Featuring Light Painting Artist Alina Wilczynski and Classical Pianist and Rites of Spring Founder Paolo Bartolani, together with a DJ/Mixer providing an ethereal electronic music backdrop, this unique and experimental multi-media collaboration presents a very exciting evening of music, performance and stargazing.
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Whether you're a classical lover or a lover of extraordinary experiences, Kinetic Continuum pushes the boundaries of a traditional music event. Wilczynski will prompt you to explore the idea that every action, thought and imagining—in the form of energy and sound, light and color—leaves a trail of its existence, its expansion over time and its intertwining with every other action, thought and imagining.
With an inward vision, if we allow ourselves to observe what these light and color paths might look like in the space around our bodies and our thoughts, as well as around our planet as one small speck in an ever-expanding cosmos, the process of creating and sharing our dreams, our passions and wonderings would take on an entirely new form—as brilliantly beautiful light art in perpetual outward motion!
With an inward vision, if we allow ourselves to observe what these light and color paths might look like in the space around our bodies and our thoughts, as well as around our planet as one small speck in an ever-expanding cosmos, the process of creating and sharing our dreams, our passions and wonderings would take on an entirely new form—as brilliantly beautiful light art in perpetual outward motion!
Event Description
EVENT DESCRIPTION The event will begin with a fascinating, informative and illuminating talk by Alina Wilczynski. She will give historical context to the camera technique known as Light Painting, including how it was discovered by chance in the late 1880’s by two French physiologists while studying the movement of the human body. It is a long-exposure camera technique done in the dark, whereby any movement or ‘painting’ of light while the shutter is open gets recorded in one image. Nothing about the camera technique has changed in the nearly 150 years since its discovery, but what has changed are the diversity of newly available lighting technology that allows us to paint and sculpt with light and color in ways we could never have imagined before. Wilczynski will then show work from her ten-year mission of “dark space” exploration in Light Painting. Collaborative partners have included Qigong Master Judi Hason, Abstract Painter Luka Goley, Gold Leaf Artist Ellen Frank, The Rocky Point Historical Society and The Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, among many others. The performance will combine live light painting projection art by Alina Wilczynski in real time improvisation with Paolo Bartolani on piano, set to a backdrop of ethereal electronic music provided by a DJ/Mixer.
The Musicians
Light Painting Artist Alina Wilczynski and Classical Pianist and Rites of Spring Founder Paolo Bartolani together with a DJ/Mixer. Paolo Bartolani, pianist & founder of Rites of Spring Music Festival
ALINA WILCZYNSKI
BIO & ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Alina Wilczynski is a Light Painting artist, an Adjunct Professor of Photography at Farmingdale State College (SUNY) and a Teaching Artist developing custom residency programs at middle and high schools across Long Island. She also leads professional development workshops with teachers, community groups and hobbyists, creates commissioned work for brand marketing, and exhibits her artwork throughout the NYC area. In 2025 she wrote and produced the 250-drone Drone Show Finale for the Nikola Tesla Science Center’s Annual Summer Expo, which wowed a record-breaking crowd of nearly 3,000 spectators. Preceded by a 25-year career in graphic design and commercial photography, it was her 2017 rediscovery of her favorite photo technique from college — Light Painting — that ignited this entirely new creative path and teaching mission for Wilczynski. Blending traditional camera work with modern light tools, video- and sound-interactive software and projection mapping, Wilczynski loves inviting others, including visual and performing artists, historians, environmentalists, multi-lingual learners of all ages and abilities (and sometimes the unsuspecting public) to be part of mind-blowing immersive art experiences. For three consecutive years, she has been a featured artist at the MoCA Lights Projection Festival that turns downtown Patchogue into a week-long open-air urban gallery of light art. Last year, she turned the historic two-story Romanesque Revival United Methodist Church (built in 1889) into an interactive canvas for spectators to paint onto with light. The previous year, she turned the entire 40ft-wide glass façade of the Patchogue-Medford Library on Main Street into an attention-getting interactive art-making canvas. It seems as if by fate that she is using light as her medium and the darkness as her canvas. A first-generation Polish-American, her last name Wilczynski means “wolf’ and her first name Alina means “light”. The lead character, Alina, in the TV series Shadow and Bone, comes to realize she possesses a superpower, the ability to summon light. And so, Alina invites you to “summon your superpower of light” on May 30, 2026, where she will demonstrate and teach you how to create Light Paintings of your own. All ages and abilities welcome. No prior photography skills required, just your curiosity!
Paolo Bartolani
Pianist, Founder and Artistic Director of Rites of Spring Music Festival
Paolo Bartolani is a pianist, musicologist and music manager, working in both classical and contemporary music. He graduated in 1989 from the Santa Cecilia Music Conservatory in Rome (Italy). He studied with Eduardo Hubert, and after graduation, with Charles Rosen, György Sándor and Andor Foldes. He also studied French piano repertoire with Germaine Mounier at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. In 1994, he received his Master in Musicology of the 20th century degree under the direction of Hugues Dufourt at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in collaboration with IRCAM / Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Paolo performs as a soloist and as a member of chamber ensembles in Europe and United States. In 2024, Paolo earned an MBA in Arts Innovation from the Global Leaders Institute based in Washington DC, after a year of great achievements and building a global network of professionals in the arts. At the Venice Biennale, from 2008 to 2012, Paolo was the General Coordinator of ENPARTS - European Network of Performing Arts, which promotes the creation of new works in dance, music and theater by young artists. From 2009 to 2014 he was the Director of the Résonnance Italy, a nonprofit organization based in Switzerland, where he was responsible for its artistic and humanitarian program, "bringing music to places where it is not heard." The members of the organization – singers, instrumentalists, conductors – have performed more than two hundred concerts in hospitals, nursing homes and prisons in order to promote musical sensibilities and share the joy of music. He has been the General Coordinator of Music Up Close Network at Santa Cecilia National Academy in Rome. The Network includes seven European orchestras who promote new orchestral works and support a new generation of musicians to connect with young audiences. In 2024, he received his DMA in Arts Innovation degree from Global Leaders Institute. He founded the Rites of Spring Music Fest in 2016 to promote classical and contemporary music on the North Fork of Long Island, and to combine music, history and the natural environment. The festival currently is a non-profit organization 501c3 and he is the Artistic Director and Responsible for developing the festival’s program.
