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1962 – 1968
Academy of Music in Žilina (violoncello)
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1968 – 1973
music studies at the Philosophical Faculty of Comenius University
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1972 – 1991
Institute of Musical Studies (later renamed to Institute of Art Studies) at the Slovak Academy of Sciences (researched 20th century music and the mutual relations of music and visual arts) and lectured about music of the 20th century at the Academy of Music and Drama and Philosophical Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava
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1989
founded Transmusic comp. – Ensemble of Unconventional Music (www.burundi.sk/monoskop/index.php/Transmusic_comp)
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1990
founded the Society for Unconventional Music (SNEH), organized the Festival of Intermedia Production (FIT) in Bratislava in 1991 and 1992
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2009
author of the exhibition Transmusic Comp., co-author Michal Murín in the Gallery of Cyprián Majerník in Bratislava
"After the initial post-Webern poetic resources in mid-60s of the 20th century (the group DAD), Adamčiak's musical thinking represents radical and, in Slovak artistic context, rare breakup with tradition and transition to the position of conceptually oriented work. This development process progressed along with consistent deconstruction of „pure“ media and cooperation of creative activities. In the music area, his symptomatic expression is open form, with generously conceived sonority, unconventional score, improvisation and action, which are involved in the final synergistic form, which alternately tends to be expressive and minimalist. Adamčiak's scores don't graphically mark notes in a conventional way, but very often they contain no information which lead to specific sounds. The variabile casts offer the same area (space) for musicians and non-musicians equally."
(CSERES, Jozef: Milan Adamčiak. In: A Hundred Slovak Composers. Eds. Marián Jurík, Peter Zagar. Bratislava : National Music Centre Slovakia, 1998, p. 11)