Zbigniew Karkowski

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Zbigniew Karkowski

Zbigniew Karkowski (born March 17, 1958 in Krakow , Poland , † December 12, 2013 in Peru ) was an avant-garde composer and musician in the field of electronic and electro-acoustic music . He was mainly concerned with radical electronic surface sound design and understood his music as an objection to academic new music , which could not get rid of its roots from the 19th century.

Live and act

Karkowski studied composition and musical aesthetics (modern music) in Gothenburg and computer music at Chalmers University of Technology . After completing his education in Sweden, he studied sonology for a year at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague . Since 1994 he lived and worked in Tokyo and was active in the local underground noise scene .

Karkowski worked with acoustic and electro-acoustic instruments. He has written pieces for large orchestras as well as an opera and various chamber music pieces that have been performed by various ensembles in Sweden, Poland and Germany. With Edwin van der Heide and Atau Tanaka he was a founding member of the electroacoustic music performance trio Sensorband . On most of his roughly 60 albums, Karkowski worked from documentaries and adaptations to simple decorations of field recordings . Different interference signals (especially distortions ) are particularly noticeable during processing .

With the formation Sensorband, Karkowski invented and realized a monumental, 120 m² musical instrument called the Soundnet . For Mutation (1999) he obtained permission to enter a temple in Kyoto .

He died of pancreatic cancer in December 2013.

Discography (selection)

  • Bad Bye Engine (Radium 05/22/1984)
  • Uexkull (Anckarström 1991)
  • Phauss / Karkowski / Bilting (Silent 1992)
  • Disruptor (OR 1998)
  • World As Will ( Staalplaat 1998)
  • Mutation (ERS 1999)
  • Choice of Points for the Application of Force (Ytterbium 2000)
  • It (Mego 2000)
  • Reverse Direction and Let the Sound Reach Out to You (Firework Edition Records 2000)
  • Whint (.Absolute. 2000), with Francisco López
  • Function Generator (Sirr 2001)
  • Consciously Unconscious Unconsciously Conscious (Metamkine 2002)
  • World As Will II (23five 2002)
  • ElectroStatics (Post Concrete 2003)
  • Turnoff (Noise Asia 2003)
  • Attuning / Attending (Musica Genera 2004)
  • Intensifier (walnut + locust 2004)
  • KHZ (Auscultare Research 2005)
  • One and Many ( Sub Rosa 2005)
  • Live at Waterland Kwanyin (Kwan Yin Records 2006)
  • Continuity (Asphodel 2007)
  • Divide by Zero (Antifrost 2007)
  • 9 Before 9 (Blossoming Noise 2008) with Damion Romero

publication

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicola Gess, Florian Schreiner and Manuela K. Schulz Hearing falls: Acoustics and violence in the 20th century 2005, p. 178
  2. ↑ The Soundnet
  3. ^ Pioneering Noise Musician Zbigniew Karkowski Dead at 55 , spin.com; accessed on August 23, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Karkowski, Zbigniew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish composer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow , Poland
DATE OF DEATH December 12th 2013
Place of death Peru