[Microsound-announce] Thu, 3/23 Zbignew Karkowski, Stefanie Ku & Brian O'Reilly at Luggage Store (in SF)

[Matt Davignon]

Thursday, Mar 23 2006 8:00 PM

Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series
1007 Market St. @ 6th Street
San Francisco
$6-10 sliding scale

8pm/9pm: Electronic Audio/video sets featuring
Stefanie Ku, Brian O'Reilly and 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.