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Title: zbigniew karkowski & antimatter live at LUFF 2007
Description: zbigniew karkowski & antimatter live at Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival 11.10.2007
http://www.myspace.com/zbigniewkarkowski
http://www.myspace.com/antimattersoundsystem
http://www.luff.ch
Title: Zbigniew Karkowski - Live '90 Austin, TX
Description: 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, and is active in the underground noise scene there.
http://www.desk.nl/~northam/oro/zk2.htm
Title: Dissonanze Festival 2006
Description: Dissonanze 2006
Live Set
music by Zbigniew Karkowski & Daniel Menche
live visual art by Philipp Geist
Title: sunset
Description: Sunset animation by NEON [palsecam]
Music : ZENIAL [palsecam]
Remixed by : ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI
for Zenial " Reworked" cd album
Vivo rec. : www.zenial.vivo.pl
Title: KK NULL live performance at Stubnitz
Description: KK NULL live at Stubnitz in Amsterdam 2006.
KK NULL (real name : KAZUYUKI KISHINO) was born in Tokyo, Japan. Composer, guitarist, singer, mastermind of ZENI GEVA and electronic wizard. One of the top names in Japanese noise music and in a larger context, one of the great cult artists in experimental music since the early 80's.
In 1981 KK NULL studied at Butoh dancer, Min Tanaka's "Mai-Juku" workshop and started his career by performing guitar improvisations in the clubs in Tokyo. He continued by collaborating with MERZBOW for two years, and joining the band YBO2 (with Tatsuya Yoshida, drummer of RUINS) and starting the improvized noise/rock trio ABSOLUT NULL PUNKT (with Seijiro Murayama, the original drummer of Keiji Haino's FUSHITSUSHA).
In 1985 he established his own label NUX ORGANIZATION to produce & release his own works and subsequently the bands such as MELT-BANANA and SPACE STREAKINGS. He also produced the series of "Dead Tech" (compilation albums by Japanese bands) which heralded Japanese alternative music boom internationally from the early 90's to date.
In the early 90's he gained world-wide recognition as the mastermind, guitarist and singer of the progressive hardcore trio ZENI GEVA with their extremely heavy sound, releasing five albums produced by STEVE ALBINI (two on Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label) and a few more on other labels such as NEUROSIS's Neurot Recordings. Also ZENI GEVA recorded twice for JOHN PEEL SESSION on BBC, and immensely toured throughout Europe, USA, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, playing hundreds of concerts.
Throughout, KK NULL has worked on his solo career and collaborated with other musical innovators such as Z'EV, CHRIS WATSON, DANIEL MENCHE, KEIJI HAINO, SEIICHI YAMAMOTO, JON ROSE, BILL HORIST, PHILIP SAMARTZIS, ALEXEI BORISOV, ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI, JAMES PLOTKIN, JIM O'ROURKE, FRED FRITH, JOHN ZORN to name a few, and has been invited to perform at international festivals such as "Sonar" in Barcelona (Spain), "Beyond Innocence" in Kobe/Osaka (Japan), "Exiles" in Berlin (Germany), "International Sound Art Festival" in Mexico City (Mexico), "Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival (SKIF-6 & 8)" in St.Petersburg & Moscow (Russia), "X-peripheria" in Budapest (Hungary), "Totally Huge New Music Festival" in Perth (Australia), "Avanto Helsinki Media Art Festival" in Helsinki (Finland), "All Tomorrow's Parties UK", "International Festival Musique Actuelle" in Victoriaville (Canada), "Electron" in Geneve (Switzerland), "Presences electronique [INA/GRM]" in Paris (France) and more.
After playing the guitar as his main instrument for some twenty years, KK NULL has gradually moved towards a more electronic approach. In recent years he has concentrated his efforts on his solo & collaborative recordings, exploring the outer territories of electronica, creating intense clashing wave of noise, structured electro-acoustic ambience, broken down rhythmics, scattered pitch sculptures, droning isolationist material which could be described "cosmic noise maximal/minimalism".
At present KK NULL has more than 100 titles of recordings released (inc. solo, bands, collaboratiobns, compilations).
http://www.myspace.com/00kknull
http://www.kknull.com
Title: Daniel Buess Solo-Performance, Basel (Switzerland) 2007
Description: Daniel Buess plays solo in the basement of a small art-gallery in Basel, Switzerland. during an exhibition of sculptures created by the basel based artist Dorin Raileau
Title: Mir - Kvant (live)
Description: An early performance of Mir
Title: Mir & P-Train live in Zürich
Description: Mir with P-Train (aka Hardturm Etoile, west-african Percussion group) playing live at Kalkbreite Zürich on december 15th 2006
Title: Mir - Tape Piece (live)
Description: Mir live at Wagenmeister
Title: Mir - Jimbo Pt. 2 (live)
Description: Mir live at the Boa Lucerne, 2006
Title: Mir - Priroda (live)
Description: Mir live at the Wagenmeister Basel
Title: Mir - Organ Donor (live)
Description: Mir play a different version of Organ Donor with Shenai