Furudate&Karkowsky A. Chessex

AN EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC NIGHT DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF HELMUT SCHÄFER (Austria b. 1969; d. 2007)

WORLD AS WILL :
ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKY (JP) and TETSUO FURUDATE (JP):
electronics

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ANTOINE CHESSEX SOLO (tenor saxophone & electronics)

Back in the early '80s, HELMUT SCHÄFER (Austria b. 1969; d. 2007) had been inspired by the use of electronic music tools like TB 303 and DR 606, Commodore and Atari computers, first 16 bit Sampler (Casio FZ 1), different sample players and various other midi tools. In 1997, he had the first success as artist with realization of an earthquake simulation project IP Zentrum for Steweag Kunstpreis. This project was afterwards also shown at ARS electronica festival 1997 and at Documenta in Kassel 1997.
His sound work is characterized by the use of very intense and direct musical language which powerfully describes his personal experiences and reflections on society structures, the blindness of modern and informed masses and everyday functionalism in between civilization. These are existential terms, which Schaefer likes to abstract, by processing them with his sound language in order to stimulate the subconsciousness.

WORLD AS WILL will perform a special composition dedicated to Helmut Schäfer.

ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI was born in 1958 in Krakow, Poland. He 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 eight years.

TETSUO FURUDATE (born in Tokyo) started his career in experimental firm and video art in 1981. From the middle of 80's, he gradually turned toward music through performing art, contributing to the development of the Japanese noise music in its early period with other pioneers such as Merzbow. He has spread his activities throughout Europe since 1998, with many concerts and CD releases, collaborating with Zbigniew Karkowski, Kasper T. Toeplitz and Leif Elggren. He achieved the premiere show of his newest experimental noise opera,'Othello', at Podewil in Berlin in 2001.

more infos:
http://www.tetsuofurudate.info
http://www.desk.nl/~northam/oro/zk2.htm
http://www.soundimplant.com/achessex.html