Composer, lawyer, and educator, author of the concept of musical ‘aftersounds’. His output includes symphonic, chamber, stage, electronic, film music, and intermedia spectacles. His music is commissioned and performed worldwide, throughout Europe, in Asia, both Americas and Australia. Inspired by W. Strzemiński’s painting cycle Afterimages of the Sun, he set out to translate this optical phenomenon into music, where real-life sounds coexist with imagined contents, and intuition – with calculations and reflections. Aftersounds has led the composer to musique acousmatique instrumentale: acoustic music that may be experienced as electronic acousmatic music, that is, as sound moving in space without simultaneous observation of moving musicians. His music has been performed by Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Bang On A Can All-Stars, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, during La Biennale di Venezia, Manifeste, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Bang on a Can Marathon, MATA, Espaces Sonores, Sacrum Profanum, Warsaw Autumn. Stańczyk's scores are published by PWM Edition. His records include five monographic CD’s published by KAIROS, ANAKLASIS and DUX. He has won more than a dozen international composers’ competitions, including the Toru Takemitsu Award. He has received two nominations for Coryphaeus of Polish Music and five for the ‘Passport’ Award of the ‘Polityka’ weekly.