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February 28, 8pm

Zbigniew Karkowski (sound artist) and Atsuko Nojiri (video artist) (Japan) + Daniel Menche (sound artist, Portland, OR.)

Concert at 8pm, $12/$10
Workshop: Sunday March 1, 11am - 1pm. $8/$5

A master sound manipulator, renowned Polish sound artist Zbigniew Karkowski employs a variety of tools to process and rework original acoustic instrument recordings. Continuity demonstrates Karkowski's relentless attention to detail in a re-interpretation the entirety of the Tokyo resident's rich catalogue of work.  In addition to his performance with Atsuko Nojiri Zbigniew Karkowski will conduct a workshop and discuss his earlier work and ideas about contemporary composition, and will demonstrate and describe the sonic materials and processes he uses in his current ‘noise’-based work.

Continuity includes visual interpretations of Karkowski's compositions by Japanese video artist Atsuko Nojiri. Rather than simply functioning as graphic replications of the original musical works, Nojiri's visual 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.

Zbigniew Karkowski studied composition with Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, and Georges Aperghis, and others. His commissioned orchestra, opera and chamber pieces have been performed in Sweden, Poland, and Germany.  Zbigniew has lived and worked in Tokyo for the past eight years where he is active in the underground noise scene, and is a founding member of the electroacoustic trio Sensorband. Karkowski is currently on a residency at UC Santa Barbara in California. An argument for the indivisibility of sound and vision, or the emergence of a new aesthetic medium? Quite evidently, the answer is both. – Asphodel Records (on Continuity the DVD/CD release by Karkowski and Nojiri)

Daniel Menche is a sound artist from Portland, Oregon, genre defying work straddles the boundaries of noise, ritual and dark ambient, and other related styles. In his live performances and recordings, he has established himself as a musician with a sense of focus and determination, uncharacteristic in a genre known for its randomness and chaotic structure.

Menche’s work originates from the idea that there is no restriction to the potential sound source, nor to its sonic energy. For Menche, “any and all sounds” are fodder to be exploited for his pieces.

http://www.esophagus.com/htdb/menche/

http://www.myspace.com/zbigniewkarkowski