Creative Music Thursdays

March 23, 2006, 8-10PM

Electronic/audio:

STEFANIE KU
BRIAN O'REILLY
ZBIGNEW KARKOWSKI

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 not interested in traditional definition of what is music, in his opinion all theory and systems of music as a cultural concept have to be destroyed. In his latest work his main concern is on realizing drama with sound electronic and acoustic walls with scores based on architectures of ruins.

Intermedia artist Stefanie L. Ku is dedicated to the sculpting, faceting, and polishing of sound and image. Stefanie began her musical career at the tender age of 5 studying the piano on a booster chair. She has studied piano under Betty Oberacker and composition under Jeremy Haladyna and Curtis Roads. After years of dedicating herself to the study and pursuit of music, Stefanie began venturing into intermedia (audio, visual, and tactile information and the way they interact with one another) upon completing a Bachelor's in Music Composition, and have since been performing in various international new media festivals (Sounding Taipei - Taipei, Taiwan, Consciousness Reframed as presented by the Planetary Collegium - Beijing, China, Get It Louder - Shanghai, China) as well as throughout California (CCRMA - Stanford, Woodstockhausen - Santa Cruz, The Luggage Store Series - San Francisco). Stefanie is currently concentrating on transmuting her visions from the dimensionless realm of pure thought into a more accessible language, one that could actually be realized and communicated.

Brian O'Reilly works with sound, mixed media assemblage, installation, film, video, and also is a performing cellist and double bass player, focusing on performances of contemporary music and the integration of electronics and extended playing techniques. Current projects include the DVD "Point Line Cloud", a collection of his visual mappings for the music of Curtis Roads, a commission from Z.K.M, (Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany) to create a series of video works and a live performance collaborating with the Viola player Garth Knox, featuring works by Grisey, Scelsi, Schiarrino, and Knox & O'Reilly. Also currently in preparation is a audio collaboration with Zbigniew Karkowski "the Difficulty of Being" for the Antifrost label, and the DVD "the ledger of fins" utilizing the untapped potentials of the DVD specification for the Sonic Arts Network. The project's objectives are to trace the tangled threads of a fractured narrative, and to interconnect the thin strands that bind sound to moving images. The final output will implement the ability to select from different regions of material both manually, and through involuntary progression by random scripting within the DVD. Thereby constructing a navigable database, in which the viewer will have multiple routes to explore the boundaries of the work.