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Artist : Kasper T. Toeplitz / Zbigniew Karkowski | |
| Title : Le Dépeupleur "ZKT" | ||
| Label : Recordings Of Sleaze Art | ||
| Format : CD digipak | ||
| Cod. nr. r.o.s.a._03 | ||
 | 2006 | |
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LE DEPEUPLEUR is the electronic project of Zbigniew Karkowski and Kasper T Toeplitz. Both musicians use computers, and create electronic sounds - no samples, no "found" sounds - it's all "pure" electronic. Even if their names can (also) be found in the "noise" circles - they did collaborate with musicians such as Merzbow, Tetsuo Furudate, CCCC or Francisco Lopez, to name a few - they are both composers having done, and still doing fully written down pieces for orchestras, ensembles etc. If there have to be some reference to the work of LE DEPEUPLEUR, it only could be Xenakis. "ZKT" is a long, one-hour piece structured in two parts - it ending being an eternal resonance. Re-read Beckett. |
| Price: € 6,00 offerta! |
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Artist: Zbigniew Karkowski + Antimatter |
| Title: Khz | |
| Label: Auscultare / Ground Fault | |
| Format: CD | |
| Cod. nr. AUS021 |
| "The second collaboration by Karkowski and Xopher Davidson (Antimatter) is a masterful work that rewards any patient listener with slowly unfolding layers of analog hum and buzz. The CD consists of one 45 minute piece, and this format suits the work well, as this kind of piece needs to develop slowly over a long period of time. The first 13 minutes are calm, and consist of low end rumbling and quiet high-pitched tones. This sort of restraint has often been a prelude to a blizzard of harsh noise in Karkowski's past work. KHZ is successful because it develops in a gradual manner, rather than simply being an exercise in quiet/loud interplay. This calm atmosphere eventually gives way to rapid clicking, analog patterns which hover at a moderate volume, and help the piece achieve a sense of movement. By 24 minutes these hums and buzzes have become a much louder chorus of shifting electronic pulses that are a massive payoff. The next four minutes are an excellent study of the interplay between this all-enveloping drone and some subtle, high-pitched staccato rhythms. The arrival of a brief noisy section towards the end is barely noticeable due to the gradual accumulation of intensity that characterizes the flow of the piece. Karkowski benefits greatly from this collaboration, as it seems to encourage his (relatively) subdued side. It is to their credit that the pair have restricted the length of this piece to 45 minutes, resisting the temptation to fill the CD to its capacity. While too many abstract sound artists explore only one end of the sonic spectrum, Karkowski and Davidson have succeeded in producing a work that focuses on the way these elements can work together. It is uncertain what relevance the only sleevenote, "rebounding=junk of life" -R. Selavy, has to the sounds contained within, but any alliance with Marcel Duchamp's feminine alter-ego is a gesture to be applauded." [Jim Siegel - Brainwashed] |
| Price: € 9,00 offerta! |
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artista : Zbigniew Karkowsky | |
| titolo : One And Many | ||
| etichetta : Sub Rosa | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| packaging : digipak | ||
| cod. nr. sr214 | ||
| 2005 | |
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"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." Zbigniew Karkowski 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. |
| Prezzo : € 9,90 offerta! |
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Artist: Zbigniew Karkowski + Francisco López |
| Title: Turnoff | |
| Label: Noise Asia | |
| Format: special package MCD | |
| Cod. nr. NAIM16 |
| The first Asian release of Zbigniew Karkowski and Francisco Lopez. 19 minutes of Ambient Noise and Psychedelic Noise from the two significant electronic acoustic artists. |
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Artist: Zbigniew Karkowski |
| Title: Consciously Unconscious Unconsciously Conscious | |
| Label: Metamkine | |
| Format: miniCD | |
| Cod. nr. MKCD033 |
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Collection Cinéma pour l'oreille 2002. "It's good to see that this series has new life, after the two recent ones, here are two more issues, in what is now a 30 some mini CD's of electro-acoustic and musique concrete. Zbigniew Karkowski is of course well-known, at least in these virtual pages. His music is violent, loud and harsh, and is already released on many labels around the world. This piece, on the cover noted as musique concrete, is mostly a long, low range frequency piece. Musique concrete... what's the concrete part of it? Hard to recognize the original, concrete source here, as it seems to me that Karkowski is working with sine waves that have been treated in the studio. But this aside, it's a nice piece of low end hum that has a strong presence in the space you're in. The walls vibrate and seem to collapse under this set of sounds. It's harshness for sure, but one that is different from the usual harshness. Zen like austerity is what we are dealing with here." [Vital Weekly 344 - Frans de Waard] Zbigniew Karkowski is a Polish-Swedish composer/musician presently living and working in Tokyo, Japan. He has worked professionaly in the areas of written contemporary music, industrial music, pop music and experimental performance for the last 15 years. Karkowski has presented his work in more then 30 countries on nearly all continents. He is conviced that it is a responsibility of an artist in present time to travel and move and work around the World in order to learn and understand different cultures and traditions and discover truth about us and our planet. He is not interested in traditional definition of what is music, in his opinion all theory and systems of music as a cultural concepts have to be destroyed. So in his latest work his main concern is on realizing drama with sound electronic and acoustic walls with scores based on architectures of ruins. |
| Price: € 4,80 !! offer (prezzo di listino/selling price: € 6,90) |
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Artist: Zbigniew Karkowski |
| Title: Reverse Direction And Let The Sound Reach Out To You | |
| Label: Firework Edition Records | |
| Format: 3xminiCD | |
| Cod. nr. FER1018 |
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Although around since many years, the output of Zbigniew Karkowski started to grow in the last 2 or 3 years. Many of his CD's are productions or collaborations with others, such as Sensorband, Edwin van der Heide, Aube or Tetsuo Furudate. Here he presents his solo work, partly recorded in Stockholm and partly in Tokyo. I am a bit puzzled by the format: why 3 tracks on 3 seperate 3" CD's? Should I be playing them together, mix them, or is it just conceptual reasons (3x3x3)? CD One is a rather mild affair, with drones and synth sounds that rumble in the lower sound spectrum with an occasional click that, however never grows out to be a rhythm. The second CD seems to be more "rhythmical". Imbedded in a stream of collaged sounds, rhythms (maybe it's better to say "flow of short repeated sounds") keep popping up. The sounds itself are that of low end bass ones and sometimes, very short high pitched sounds. As the piece evolves, erosion sets in: the low end (by now very low end) sounds have taken over life, only to be intercepted by a short, abrupt sound. The last CD in this trilogy is where everything happens on a more or less audible level. For roughly the first eleven minutes all the samples and their processing seem to come forth from eachother, and everything seems to be the logical extent to the other. Then a Chain Reaction like beat kicks in, but that seems short and the previous sounds take over, ultimately giving way to the rhythm again. Three considerable different CD's which clearly show the talent of Karkowski as one of the more interesting electronic composers and to those who doubt: also one that is capable of producing more then just noise. (FdW - Vital Weekly 230) |
| Price: € 18,00 offerta! |
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