Zbigniew Karkowski
Zbigniew Karkowski (born March 14, 1958 in Krakow, Poland; he passed away December 12) worked 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 was a founding member of the electroacoustic music performance trio Sensorband.
Zbigniew Karkowski (born March 14, 1958 in Krakow, Poland; he passed away December 12) worked 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 was a founding member of the electroacoustic music performance trio Sensorband.
World As Will
*2022 stock. 100 copies limited edition* "I found an old CD-R seemingly containing the first live recording that i had made with Zbigniew in Japan. Somehow i tried to mix it. So i copied the data, but what i got through Pro Tools was something different. What happened! I was always using familiar file names (World as Will.aiff) for everything. So the file that opened was another recording of same duration of 30 minutes and 26 seconds. It seems as if Zbigniew were here and said You take the wrong…
Eminent Risk Factor
Internationally acclaimed sound artists Helmut Schäfer and Zbigniew Karkowski met for the first time in 1997. From then on, they maintained a close friendship and worked together on several collaborations, performances and music projects. Then years later, in April 2007, Helmut passed away. "Eminent Risk Factor" gathers recordings from the last 2 concerts and studio session they ever made together. The master was finished on the last day they ever saw each other.
In memory of Helmut Schäfer (19…
Attuning / attending
The first release of Musica Genera's new series which is dedicated to music of from improvisation of improvisers contexts.Zbigniew Karkowski's solo album brings one over 50 minutes long piece. On this CD Karkowski shows himself on composition and more minimal field, but his strong energetical and dynamic attitude is still clearly present.
Connector
Tracks 1. 2. 3 recorded Aug., Sept. 2004 at studio NOEMA Buenos Aires, performed/composed by Alan Courtis, Jaime Genovart, Zbigniew Karkowski and Pablo Reche.Track 4 recorded Aug., Sept. 2004 at studio NOEMA Buenos Aires, performed/composed by Jaime Genovart, Zbigniew Karkowski and Pablo Reche.Track 5 recorded sept 2004 at LIPM [Laboratory of Investigation and Musical Production], Buenos Aires, performed/composed by Jorge Haro and Zbigniew Karkowski.Additional edits Zbigniew Karkowski, mastered …
The Last Man in Europe
Reality had the honour of working with pioneering electronic composer Zbigniew Karkowski on two occasions. In 2007, as part of the Recording Angel Ensemble’s accompaniment to Wojciech Has’ film “The Saragossa Manuscript” at the National Film Theatre and finally, for the last time on the 31st October 2013 when, already gravely ill after learning that he had advanced pancreatic cancer, Karkowski premiered his music to the BBC 1954 teleplay production of George Orwell’s “1984 - The Last Man in Euro…
Aware Not Aware Radio Enemy
This split LP is one of several collaborative projects between Zbigniew Karkowski and Lars Åkerlund, which took place during the years 2012–2013. The collaboration between Karkowski and Åkerlund goes back to the 1980s, with projects like P.I.T.T. and the Dreamers and Onge-4-X. They continued during the 90s with an opera setting of Dostoyevsky´s The Idiot and a trio with Dror Feiler, among other things. Collaborations during recent years include the CD Horology, which Karkowski and Åkerlun…
A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush
This record should be seen not so much as a tribute to Zbigniew Karkowski than as an ongoing concern to further his work and thinking as they were when he was alive, reacting, and questioning, uncompromisingly. Nevertheless, these are his final recordings, which he made- a homecoming of sorts - in Sweden, at EMS Studios in Stockholm, with his friends Jean-Louis Huhta and Lars Akerlund. Late november 2013. a reminiscence from the 1980s, the creation of the label Radium 226.05 by Carl Mich…
World As Will Live In Sao Paulo
Recorded by Tetsuo Furudate with collaborations by Saichi (guitar), Leif Elggren (reading) and Marja-Leena Sillanpaa (electric sound). Electronic and acoustic elements are carefully combined together to make this album both an abstract and dreamy experiment and a very noisy sonic assault!
Unreleased materials
This is our hommage to a great musician (1958 - 2013). A CD full of music, that had been never published, Karkowski made with different musicians around the globe. Not only 'a piece in memory of' but some real music played with him! Get yourself a glass of some good wine and blast your head off with this! In Karkowski's spirit ! Cheers man !! With Daniel Buess, Sin:Ned, Lars Akerlund, Julien Ottavi, Ilios and Kasper T. Toeplitz.
Processor
This is #12 in Sub Rosa's limited edition Framework series -- an extension of their Concrete Electronics Noise series. Antimatter is the sound work of Xopher Davidson -- an ongoing exploration into the material of sound. Xopher builds his experiments in electronic sound from a basis in painting, photography, and film, and through an interest in electronic circuits going back to building radios and homemade circuits as a kid. Over the last 11 years he has built and explored the sound world of…
Nerve Cell_0 (For Cello and Computer)
This work is not music in a conventional sense, it does inhabit that world, but in a new way. The cello is treated fundamentally, as a resonating body, transmitting sounds elementally. The bow on a string, the flux of weight, pressure, speed and angularity releases a myriad of complex sound phenomena. The juxtaposition of multiple sounds on adjacent strings creates fluctuating and rhythmical beatings. The detuning of the instrument increases its pitch potential and basso profundity. In c…
One and many
"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 high…
World as will II
Legendary composers Zbigniew Karkowski and Tetsuo Furudate complete their second installment of World As Will. This powerful collaboration results in a furiously intense music with Wagner-esque orchestrations and instrumentation with vigorous electronic manipulations, voice and mastery. A truly epic piece of work.