[microsound] [promo] new ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI CD

[Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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RELEASE DATE
FEBRUARY 12 - 2005

ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI
one and many


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Zbigniew Karkowski
Zbigniew Karkowski studied composition at the State College of Music in
Gothenburg, Sweden,
aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburg's Department
of Musicology, and
computer music at the Chalmers University of Technology. After
completing his studies in Sweden,
he studied sonology for a year at the Royal Conservatory of Music in
Den Haag, The Netherlands.
During his education, he also attended many summer composition master
courses arranged by
Centre Acanthes in Avignon and Aix-en-Provence, France, studying with
Iannis Xenakis, Olivier
Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, and Georges Aperghis, among others.
He works actively as a composer of both acoustic and electroacoustic
music. He has written pieces
for large orchestra (commissioned and performed by the Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra), plus
an opera and several chamber music pieces that were performed by
professional ensembles in
Sweden, Poland and Germany. He is a founding member of the
electroacoustic music performance
trio "Sensorband." Karkowski has lived and worked in Tokyo, Japan for
the past eight years,
and is active in the underground noise scene there.Professionally
active in contemporary,
industrial, rock and experimental music for the last 15 years,
Karkowski has presented works
in over 30 countries in Europe, North America, Australia and Japan.
For him, nowadays, it is the artist's responsibility to travel, to work
and to settle down all
around the world, in order to learn and understand cultures and
traditions, and to find the truth
about ourselves and our planet. This geographical, political and social
exile is necessary to achieve
true creation.


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One and Many : an ode to loudspeakers
These life conditions lead to a radical conclusion: the traditional
definitions of music are irrelevant
and music theories and music as a cultural concept must be destroyed.
That is what we find in his
latest works, in which his main concern is to produce pieces out of
electronic sounds and acoustic
walls on scores developed from the architecture of ruins. His last opus
called 'One And Many' is
the exact development of years of theories and practices.  As many of
Karkowski's pieces,
this is a highly delicate yet physical work, which can be seen as an
ode to loudspeakers.

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Selected Discography
Phauss / Karkowski / Bilting (Silent, USA), Dry Lungs 2  (with CM.von
Hausswolff, Placebo),
Mastery of Money, Kill the King, Masturbatorium, Fuck (with The Hafler
Trio, Touch, UK), SPL
(with MAZK (Masami Akita + Zbigniew Karkowski), It (Mego, Austria,
Whint (with Francisco Lopez, Absolute / Touch), MAZK (with Masami
Akita, Tigerbeat6, USA), klr (split by Peter Rehberg,
Francisco Lopez and Zbigniew Karkowski), ar.ms, Japan Album (with POP
(Peter Rehberg + Zbigniew Karkowski)

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