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artista : Zbigniew Karkowski & Peter Rehberg | |
| titolo : Pop Album | ||
| etichetta : Tochnit Aleph | ||
| formato : CDR | ||
| cod. nr. ta034 | ||
 | 2009 | |
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Rerelease of Tochnit Aleph 034 LP from 2001 on CDR. Packaged in the original fullcolor LP Sleeve. Edition of 100 Copies.
Data retrieved from the following Live-Actions: 271097 @ Chelsea, Wien 160199 @ ICC, Tokyo 200199 @ Milk, Tokyo 290199 @ Ufo, Tokyo 200399 @ Webbar, Paris (PR) 200399 @ Bunker 301, Tokyo (ZK) |
| Prezzo : € 15,00 |
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artista : Zbigniew Karkowski & Tetsuo Furudate with Zeitkratzer | |
| titolo : World As Will III | ||
| etichetta : Sub Rosa | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| cod. nr. sr282 | ||
| 2008 | |
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| Mergence," "Below The Demarcation" and "Mix White" concludes the World As Will project, started ten years ago, the result of a collaboration between Polish acoustic and electroacoustic sound artist/composer Zbigniew Karkowski and Japanese noise progenitor Tetsuo Furudate. Named after the philosophy coined by Arthur Schopenhauer, the first two parts in the World As Will series have been dramatic explorations of majestic dissonance, orchestration, and looped deconstruction that are powerful challenges to any modern orchestra. Part three is commissioned and performed by the Berlin-based ensemble Zeitkratzer, who proved the impossible possible with their capable rendering of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music for a 2002 Berlin Opera House performance. The first piece in World As Will III arises from an infrabass ocean to crudely develop through a series of distant explosions, percussive energy, and short open cuts. As a whole, the structure is reminiscent of a slow, crawling process. Tremors follow (with Karkowski, something always ends up shaking). The second piece is both the imprint and the development of the first one. Furudate's contribution to this joint venture is also easier to grasp. A menace passes by, and the listener should be more than happy to remain hidden in their hole, letting the musical beast move along in short, rusty, metallic, torn, scorched bursts. This third piece provides a cathartic and tragic conclusion to the release and to the series, achieving what could be called a sketch of absolute chaos. Zeitkratzer: Reinhold Friedl (piano/artistic director), Burkhard Schlothauer (violin), Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), Uli Phillipp (bass), Frank Gratkowski (clarinet), Franz Hautzinger (trumpet), Melvyn Poore (tuba), Marc Weiser (electronics), Maurice de Martin (percussion), Ralf Meinz (sound). |
| Prezzo : € 15,00 |
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artista : Zbigniew Karkowski - Atsuko Nojiri | |
| titolo : Continuity | ||
| etichetta : Asphodel | ||
| formato : DVD + CD | ||
| cod. nr. asp3003 | ||
| 2007 | |
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If any recording constitutes the sum total of an artist's career to date, it is Continuity. Both a career overview and a glimpse into renown polish sound artist Zbigniew Karkowski's promising future, the compositions on this hybrid release sample and re-interpret the entirety of the Tokyo resident's rich catalogue of work.
A master sound manipulator, Karkowski employs a variety of tools to process and rework original acoustic instrument recordings. The pieces presented on Continuity demonstrate Karkowski's relentless attention to detail, and provide more than ample explanation for repeated invitations to perform at prestigious galleries, museums, and venues around the globe. The Continuity DVD contains visual interpretations of Karkowski's compositions by Japanese video artist Atsuko Nojiri. Rather than simply functioning as graphic replications of the original musical works, all three of Nojiri's pieces seamlessly wrap themselves around Karkowski's sounds as though they were integral parts of their own larger multimedia compositions. In the process, Nojiri's videos become independent of the original musical works that they purport to document. An argument for the indivisibility of sound and vision, or the emergence of a new aesthetic medium? Quite evidently, the answer is both. *The included CD contains over an hour of unreleased material by Karkowski: 1. Mass-Flow-Rate - 26:10 2. Perceptor - 41:37 Track Listing DVD Float - 16:22 Tritonal Rapture - 10:53 Membrane - 14:18 |
| Prezzo : € 24,00 |
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artista : Le Dépeupleur | |
| titolo : Disambiguation | ||
| etichetta : Auf Abwegen | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| cod. nr. aatp15 | ||
| 2006 | |
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Limited edition of 500 copies, CD in full colour paper sleeve. Disambiguation is the third CD from the duo of Zbigniew Karkowski and Kaspar T. Toeplitz. It features one ongoing stream of grey, heavy and disturbing noises. It contains blocks of solid and almost material sounds, causing a physicality and urgency to the music which is rare to find these days. |
| Prezzo : € 15,90 |
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artista : Zbigniew Karkowsky | |
| titolo : One And Many | ||
| etichetta : Sub Rosa | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| 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 : € 15,00 |
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artista : Zbigniew Karkowski + Antimatter | |
| titolo : KHZ | ||
| etichetta : Auscultare Research | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| cod. nr. aus021 | ||
| 2005 | |
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| "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] |
| Prezzo : € 14,70 |
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artista : Zbigniew Karkowski | |
| titolo : Consciously Unconscious Unconsciously Conscious | ||
| etichetta : Metamkine | ||
| formato : miniCD | ||
| cod. nr. mkcd033 | ||
| 2002 | |
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Collection Cinéma pour l'oreille "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. |
| Prezzo : € 6,00 |
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artista : Zbigniew Karkowski - Francisco López | |
| titolo : Whint | ||
| etichetta : Absolute. [London] | ||
| formato : CD x 2 | ||
| cod. nr. .a.[l] 003–01 | ||
| 2001 | |
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CD 1: whint – zk:e00 composed by zbigniew karkowski sound materials created by zbigniew karkowski and francisco lópez CD 2: whint – fl:e00. composed by francisco lópez sound materials created by francisco lópez and zbigniew karkowski recorded at the compound (san francisco) 2000 2 x CD (47' + 67') .a.[l] 003–01 |
| Prezzo : € 17,40 |
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artista : Zbigniew Karkowski | |
| titolo : Reverse Direction And Let The Sound Reach Out To You | ||
| etichetta : Firework Edition Records | ||
| formato : 3 x miniCD | ||
| cod. nr. fer1018 | ||
| 2000 | |
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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] |
| Prezzo : € 26,10 |
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