Anton Lukoszevieze - cello
Zbigniew Karkowski - computer

New CD of Zbigniew Karkowski vs Anton Lukoszevieze (cello): Nerve Cell-0 is a joyous, ecstatic, exhilarating and epic vista of sound. It defies categorisation. Highly recommended

Anton Lukoszevieze - cello
Zbigniew Karkowski - computer

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, 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." Zbigniew has lived and worked in Tokyo, Japan for the past years, and is active in the underground noise scene there.

??Karkowski is convinced that it is a responsibility of an artist in the present day to travel and work around the world in order to learn and understand different cultures and traditions. He also strongly believes that geographical, political and social exile is a necessary condition for true and honest creation. He is not interested in the traditional definition of music - in his opinion, all musical theory and systems as cultural concepts must be destroyed. In his latest work, his main concern is to realise drama with sound—electronic and acoustic walls with the archi.......
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"Pokaż mi coś nowego i zacznę wszystko od nowa".

Erik Satie

Album "nerve cell_0 (for cello and computer)" jak sama nazwa wskazuje to trzydziestokilkuminutowa kompozycja na wiolonczelę (Anton Lukoszevieze) i komputer (Karkowski).

Zbigniew Karkowski to pochodzący z Krakowa i aktualnie mieszkający w Japonii kompozytor i wykonawca muzyki współczesnej, (elektronicznej, konkretnej, noise, etc.). Fanom brzmień współczesnej, robotycznej filharmonii nie trzeba go przedstawiać.
Edukację muzyczną podejmował m.in. w Gothenburgu (State College of Music, University of Gothenburg's Department of Musicology) w Holandii, Francji, u Iannisa Xenakisa, Oliviera Messiaena, Pierre'a Bouleza i Georges'a Aperghisa.
Karkowski jest też współzałożycielem zespołów Sensorband, Cosmic Trigger, Pop Senssurround Orchestra oraz UBSB i współpracował z wieloma artystami jak Francisco López, Masami Akita, Tetsuo Furudate czy Atsuko Nojiri. Posiada bardzo bogatą dyskografię:

Anton Lukoszevieze jest litewskim wiolonczelistą, jednym z bardziej nowatorskich w swoim pokoleniu. Dla znawców hybrydy muzyki współczesnej (instrumentalnej) i eksperymentów z elektroniką, muzyk ten jawi się jako muzyk awangardowego bandu Zeitkratzer, który brał na pulpity kompozycje m.in. Stockhausena i Johna Cage'a.


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 combination with computer electronics these elements are multiplied, extended and enriched. Nerve Cell-0 is a joyous, ecstatic, exhilaratin.......
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