Recorded in January 2008 and April 2011.

Phonograph

Zbigniew Karkowski was born in Krakow, Poland. He studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburg 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. He also attended many summer composition master courses in 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, 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. Karkowski is currently on a residency at UC Santa Barbara in California.

www.myspace.com/zbigniewkarkowski

Recording Notes

This wax cylinder represents the first part of a longer piece, especially made by Zbigniew for this archive, on three wax cylinders. Many of the higher and lower frequencies from the original digital sound file have been filtered-out by the recording process.