PIOTR WRZECIONO received a master's degree in electronics and communication from the Poznan University of Technology, and a Ph.D. degree from the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, defending his thesis on a violin sound-quality classifier for automatic classification. He is currently with the Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences. His main areas of scientific expertise include music information retrieval (MIR), music acoustics, and digital linguistics. His publications are largely concerned with the automatic classification of sound. In his studies, he employs various heuristic methods, such as genetic algorithms and Monte Carlo methods. He is a member of IEEE and the Polish Acoustical Society (PTA), associated with the European Acoustics Association (EAA). His other interests include organ music, and the Japanese language and culture. For many years, he was involved in the organizing of the International Festival of Organ and Chamber Music in Wolsztyn. He also publishes his haiku in the quarterly POLE, a publication of Hokkaidō Pōrando Bunka Kyōkai.