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AUX POLE'N Festival of Polish Experimental Sound Berlin - Cologne - Munich 24-29 October 2005 The first joint presentation of Polish experimental music whose output has been presented before at two festivals: Alt+F4 (Warsaw) and Musica Genera (Szczecin). AUX POLE'N Festival will be held in three German cities: Berlin, Cologne & Munich. The following artist will perform: Zbigniew Karkowski (Cracow/Tokyo): laptop Tomasz Krakowiak (Tarnow/Montreal): percussion, electronics Robert Piotrowicz (Szczecin): guitar, analog synth Ignaz Schick (Berlin): turntables, objects Maciek Sienkiewicz (Warsaw): laptop, turntable Jacek Staniszewski (Warsaw): laptop Wolfram (Warsaw): laptop Anna Zaradny (Szczecin): alto saxophone, laptop AUX POLE'N is a touring festival representing current projects of the Polish experimental music scene. The musicians taking part in it are representing various trends in current electronic music. The line-up contains the laptop artists (Wolfram, Sienkiewicz, Staniszewski), musicians creating free improv and noise (Zaradny, Schick, Piotrowicz, Krakowiak) and the exquisite persona of Zbigniew Karkowski, well-known for his own work and cooperation with famous electronic music artist all over the world. The Polish scene of experimental music is still developing and searching, however, in the recent years musicians have managed to find their own ways of creation and some distinctive personalities have appeared. The artists mentioned in the line-up have been cooperating for years in many different configurations. They are also active off-stage. They organize festivals and concerts (ALT+F4, Musica Genera), release records, etc. Polish scene is created by devoted and determined individuals, usually outside institutions, very often in small, one-man projects. We are very happy to present our work to the German audience. AUX POLE'N is a co-operation of Salvia, Center for New Forms Association (www.salvia.pl) Musica Genera (www.musicagenera.net) Zangi Music (www.zangimusic.de)
and is sponsored by Instytut im. Adama Mickiewicza (www.iam.pl) in frames of Polish-German Year 2005/2006 in Germany (www.de-pl.info)  
Koncert jest wspó³finansowany przez Instytut im.Adama Mickiewicza ze ¶rodków Ministerstwa Kultury Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej w ramach "Roku Polsko-Niemieckiego 2005/2006." Das Konzert wird vom Adam-Mickiewicz-Institut aus den Mitteln des Kulturministeriums der Republik Polen im Rahmen des "Deutsch-Polnischen Jahres 2005/2006" mitfinanziert Additional financial support Kulturreferat der LH Muenchen & Tesla Berlin 
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To check entry prices please visit venue's website BIOS BIOS BIOS BIOS BIOS BIOS BIOS ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI Composer and performer of contemporary music. Was bom in Cracow - Poland but emigrated; as a,, teenager and afterwards lived in among others Gothenburg - Sweden, Amsterdam - Netherlands, Berlin - Germany, Paris - France, Los Angeles - USA and Tokyo - Japan. He studied music and composition for many different teachers and composers in Poland, Sweden, France and Netherlands. From today's perspective he considers that the only teacher who taught him something real,was Iannis Xenakis. Karkowski has presented his work in more then 30 countries on nearly all continents. He is conviced that it is a responsibility of an artist in present time to travel and move and work around the World in order to learn and understand different cultures and traditions and discover truth about us and our planet. He also strongly believes that geographical, political and social exile is a necessary condition for true creation. And true creation is the only act that really matters. Since 1994 he is based in Tokyo - Japan where he collaborates closely with japanese underground noise- and experimen- tal artists. He is not interested in traditional definition of what is music, in his opinion all theory and systems of music as a cultural concepts have to be destroy ed. So in his latest work his main concern is on realizing drama with sound electronic and acoustic walls with scores based on architectures of ruins. http://www.fylkingen.se/f_karkowski.html TOMASZ KRAKOWIAK During the last few years, Krakowiak has performed and recorded with artists such as Mike Hansen, John Oswald, Le Quan Ninh, Kaffe Matthews, Mike Snow, Domenico Scjano, Alessandro Bosetti, Sophie Angel, Otomo Yoshihide, Phil Minton, Paul Dutton, John Butcher, Gert-Jan Prins and others throughout Europe and North America. Influenced by experimental and electroacoustic practices, Krakowiak's sound ranges from post-minimal explorations of barely audible phenomena, drone-overtone density to noise. His music is characterized by intense and detailed sonic events. He is one of the best examples of marrying electronic and acoustic sound events. He is native Polish, currently living in Toronto, Canada. ROBERT PIOTROWICZ guitar player and electro acoustic musician. He started play music in age of 12 years old, his first instrument was drums. Then few years latter he found guitar as a tool to have band, form this time he was trying to find his place in music. From early 90' he was leader of his own band called STUCKONCEILING, there he found his way of guitar playing and leading the bands. Around 96-98 he released couple of albums with his early fascination which turned around hard core, noise avantgarde metal. In this rock loud period he is founding improvisation as way to create music and thinking about this. Together with this Piotrowicz was researching electronics as topic for sound challenge. The breaking times for Piotrowicz music approach was 1999 when together with his band he finishing noise rock period and he turn himself into free improvisation. Together with Anna Zaradny - she joined STUCKOCELING around 98' - they both together strongly focused on experimental and improvised music. In 2000 Piotrowicz played few concerts with well know improv figures as John Butcher and Tony Buck. In next year together with Anna Zaradny they found label and festival MUSICA GENERA. From 2002 all their art activities are strongly connected with record label, festival and events of improvised and experimental music in Poland. From this time he regularly play concerts all over Europe, including festivals and other events. Activities of Musica Genera became one of most important phenomenon for experimental music in Poland. Piotrowicz uses analog synthesizer to work on sonic research. He treats guitar as a sound source, to play he uses bow, metal, paper, engine etc. Electronics - beside their sound characteristic - are other way of expressions. Piotrowicz works with free impov contexts as well as working solo and on compositions. As improviser he works usually with Anna Zaradny and Burkhard Stangl with his most focused lineup (the trio released album "Can't Illumination"). By last years he collaborates often with: Tony Buck, John Butcher, Xavier Charles, Kevin Drumm, Jerome Noetinger etc. Occasionally he collaborated with Otomo Yoshihide, ErikM, Martn Siewert, Dieb 13, Werner Dafeldecker, Lionel Marchetti, Nikos Veliotis and many others. Piotrowicz released some solo production (2 albums and one single cd) and he dedicates lots of attention for aesthetic of his musical status. Composed works of him touch noise music aspect as well as electroacoustic music tradition. Together with pure audio work he collaborates with visual artists. His most important work includes collaboration with great film maker and musician Martin Klapper. He worked for the radio and theatres. Together with Anna Zaradny composed music for films. Piotrowicz participates in international festivals (Audio Art Festiwal, Jazz en Gatineite, Alt F4, The Strings of Difference Athens, SKIF, Muzyka z Mózgu, In Beetwen Chicago, Jazz in E., Copenhagen Jazz Festiwal, Art Rhytmic Depot). He played in all over Europe (France, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Czech, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Greece, Croatia) and US. IGNAZ SCHICK electronics, objects, turntables Studied the saxophone for several years in the mid 80s and started at the same time to experiment with analog sampling methods and multi-track recording. While and after college touring with various (free) jazz, experimental and improvised music projects. He had a three years collaboration with composer J.A. Riedl as an assistant and musician for several festival productions - at the same time a short but intense phase at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. There his interest shifted strongly towards found objects, self-made devices and electronics. Among others he uses a wide array of contact mics and pick-ups which are treated and manipulated with various objects and techniques. He was awarded with the "Foerderstipendium Musik" by the City of Munich in 1994. Lives in Berlin since 1995 where he has been working with numerous groups and musicians of the younger generation - the main focus is on electro-acoustic music, object & field recordings and sound art. In 1998 he founded "Edition Zangi" followed by the label "Zarek" in 2000. Within the last years he has organized & produced many events, concert series & international festivals of experimental music in Berlin and elsewhere and has been curating for various associations. Since early 2004 he works as sales manager for the electronic music label Staalplaat Amsterdam/Berlin. Extensive tours have led him through Austria, Balkans, Belgium, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA (...) and was commissioned for radio productions (DRS II, BR II, ORF-Kunstradio, DLF, ...) among others he is involved in the following groups and projects: #SOLO (Tabit, Metaflexes, ...) #PERLONEX with Joerg Maria Zeger & Burkhard Beins #AMPLIFIED BODY with Snjezana Premus #PETIT PALE with Andrea Neumann #DURRANT/SCHICK/BEINS with Phil Durrant and Burkhard Beins #PHOSPHOR with Axel Doerner, Robin Hayward, Michael Renkel, Annette Krebs, Andrea Neumann & B.Beins) #DUOS with Chris Abrahams (AUS), Thomas Ankersmit (NL), Thomas Charbonnel (F), Mayumi Fukuzaki (JAP), Gunnar Geisse (D) & Jacek Staniszewski (PL) SELECTION OF FESTIVAL APPEARANCES: Bonner Herbst, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Forum Stadtpark (Graz), Echtzeitmusiktage (Berlin),FAM (Berlin), Garage (Stralsund), 2:13 Festival (Athens & Berlin), Jazz & More Festival (Munich), Terza Prattica/ Gaudeamus (Amsterdam), IZ(Z)VEN (Maribor/SLO), Rumor 19 (Utrecht), Musique Action (Nancy), Int. Night of Noise (NYC), Aural Anatomy (Pittsburgh), Fruits de Mhres (France), Verbindingen/Jonctions (Bruxelles), Mesto Zensk (Ljubljana/SLO), Kryptonale (Berlin), Hoerkunstfestival Erlangen, pianOH Stichting Logos (Ghent), Erase & Reset Berlin, Festival of Experimental Music @ TU Mensa Munich, Fotones (Bruxelles), Sound Shift/Big Sur Experimental Music Festival (Big Sur, California), Space & Place (Berlin), Stare ueber Berlin (Museumsinsel Berlin), perlon.extensions (Podewil Berlin), Nous Sons 05 (Auditori Barcelona), Skif Festival (St.Petersburg), Alt F4 Festival (Warsaw), Musica Genera (Sczeczin) ... SELECTION OF COLLABORATORS: Zoro Babel, Mathias Bauer, Alessandro Bosetti, Marc Boukouya, Tony Buck, Lucio Capece, Mathieu Chamagne, Xavier Charles, Don Cherry, Matt Davis, Rhodri Davies, Jim Denley, Phil Durrant, Andrea Ermke, Steven Garling, Ivar Grydeland, Bernd Jestram, Coti K, Jason Kahn, Borut Krzisnik, Christoph Kurzmann, Kalle Laar, Keenan Lawler, Ronald Lippock, Greg Malcolm, Stephan Mathieu, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Charlemagne Palestine, Jim Pepper, Jon Raskin, Gino Robair, Keith Rowe, Olaf Rupp, Bob Rutman, Stol, Martin Tetreault, Torben Tilly, Sebi Tramontana, Nikos Veliotis, Ute Voelker, Volz, Jenny Ward, Mark Wastell, Wu Wei, Marc Weiser, Stevie Wishart, Wolfram ... SLECTED DISCOGRAPHY: Ignaz Schick "Kratzen" LP Edition Zangi 1990 Ignaz Schick "Kaeseplatte" LP Edition Zangi 1991 Arurmukha "14 * 11 * 90 ein akustisches psychogramm" LP Goldrausch 1993 Donaueschingen "'95" CD Col Legno 1996 DeCollage 3 "Lonely Woman" CD David Records 1997 Ignaz Schick "Tales and Tools..." MC edition x 1997 Edmundo Rosa "Puppy Love" CD Edition Zangi 1998 Ignaz Schick "Nuts" LP Edition Zangi 1998 DeCollage 3 "Live Vol.1 & 2" 2 CD Zarek 03/04 1999 Perlonex "The Bad Alchemy Pieces" 7" Bad Alchemy No 35 2000 Perlonex "Perlon" CD Zarek 01 2000 Ignaz Schick "Tabit" CD Zarek 02 2000 Various Artists "Hoerstuecke II" CD Irrah 2001 Schick/Neumann "petit pale" CD Zarek 05 2001 Perlonex "peripherique" CD Zarek 07 2001 V.A. "Zwischen Bild & Ton" CD Garage 2001 Phosphor "Phosphor" CD Potlatch 2002 V.A. "Labor Sonor" 2CD Charhizma 2003 Perlonex/JuliJuni Split LP Happy Zloty 2003 Various "Talking Crosswalks" CD Pumkin Rec/Kunstradio 2004 Various "Yokomono 2" LP Staalplaat 2005 Upcoming: Ignaz Schick "5x +-=" 5LP Edition Zangi 2005 Schick/Abrahams CD tba 2005 Perlonex & Ulrike Flaig DVD Zarek 2005 http://www.zangimusic.de MACIEK SIENKIEWICZ Using laptop (sometimes accompanied by turntables) creates music by mixing-up different music styles: industrial, hip hop and noise. During the same set his music can evolve fom rhythmical repetitions delicately enriched with deep bass through hot energetic house to sweet electro and noise. Recently he's scoped mostly on experimental ways of sound creation. Worked closely with few polish visual artists. From early 90's he is also active as a DJs, reviewer and journalist. Together with his well known brother (Jacek Sienkiewicz) runs "1955" - the most interesting music club in Warsaw. In the end of August he plans to start with his own record label KOTEK (www.kotek.recognition.pl). JACEK STANISZEWSKI sampling software, computer, things Founder-member of Neurobot multimedia collective (neurobot.art.pl). Founder of Polycerphal label. Works and records as Facial Index. Collaborated with Jean-Christophe Champs, Matthew Hutchinson, Karl Kilian + Lopez Mausere, Martin Koller, K-O-S-Z (Kowalczyk-Olbrych-Staniszweski-Zamojda), Membrana, Molr Drammaz, Robert Piotrowicz, Podletz, Ignaz Schick, Maciek Sienkiewicz, Viön, Wolfram, Anna Zaradny. Freelance writing about marginal culture for various magazines. Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. In his hands a PC serves as a tool for spontaneous grainy deconstruction of sound matter from all sources. Reviews: http://www.breaks.org/esonntag/esonntag2.htm http://ampersandetc.virtualave.net/ampv2002_11.html http://www.ambientrance.org/0802/0802ov.html WOLFRAM (Dominik Kowalczyk) laptop, sampling software End of 80 / beginning of 90 - making posters, graffiti, abstract drawings & paintings, zines, etc. Active as webmaster/webdesigner from 1995 First approaches to making music: 1991. From 1998 performing improvised live sets with Neurobot. Acting solo from 2000. Man behind sleeve design and package concepts for majority of Polycephal's releases. Co-organizer of first ALT+F4 festival edition presenting Polish electronic underground music. Plays narrative ambient tracks assembling noise, clicks, pops and clicks in one stream. http://www.lollipopshop.de/wolfram/ http://neurobot.art.pl/polycephal.html http://neurobot.art.pl/03/label/neurobot/normal.html SOLO RELEASES PROJEKT DREI / polycephal 2000 MIND LOCATIONS / polycephal 2001 ATOL DRONE / polycephal 2002 SUPERRECOMBINATION_SYS / mik musik 2002 HABITAT / site rec. 2004 THINKING DUST / monotype rec. 2005 COMPILATIONS / REMIXES / SPLITS C9H13O3N / polycephal 2000 SAD ELECTRONICS / site rec. 2002 FROM GDANSK TILL DAWN / leonardo music journal 2002 WIR / hey joe 2003 CITY SONGS VOL.12 / requiem records 2003 THE QUITE QUIET QUANGO / astipalea 2004 ALT+F4 / emd 2004 SAD ELECTRONICS 2 / site rec. 2005 DOKUMENT. PROGRAM STREFA / obieg/csw 2005 GO-TO-CAT-MAN-DO / monotype rec. 2005 WITH NEUROBOT NORMAL SUBJECTS / neurobot 1998 TARCZA 9800 / neurobot 2000 L.I.V.E.V.I.L / neurobot 2001 SELECTED LIVE APPEARANCES SOLO 24.03.2002 Aurora, Warsaw 29.03.2002 Polnische Versager Club, Berlin 26.06.2002 Line In Line Out, Rhiz, Vienna 27.06.2002 Line In Line Out, Stadtwerkstatt, Linz 21.11.2002 Centrum Sztuki Wspó³czesnej, Warsaw 22.11.2002 Operafonic Festival, Szczecin 02.09.2004 Cite Sonic/Nuit Blanche, Cite Universitaire, Paris 04.12.2004 Sibirische Zelle, Berlin 06.12.2004 Festival fur Zeitgenossische Musik, Lofft Theater, Leipzig OTHER with Thomas Ankersmit (NL), Xavier Charles (F), Phil Durrant (GB), David Galbraith (USA), Ignaz Schick (D), Jacek Staniszewski (PL) and Torben Tilly (N) 24-25.07.2003 Erase & Reset. International Night of Experimental & Electronic Music, Staatsbank, Berlin WITH NEUROBOT 26-27.06.2002 Line_in Line_out, Vienna/Linz 01.02.2003 Transmediale 03, Podewil Sound Service, Berlin 03.07.2003 MS Stubnitz, Szczecin 05.07.2003 SKIF Festival, Berlin ANNA ZARADNY saxophone player, improviser, composer. Classicaly trained musician. She started her education in the age of 6 years old with piano and violins. Later she started to play saxophone and she finished first and second level of instrumental education. She is also absolvent of Poznan's Music Academy (conducting and theory). Additionaly Zaradny studiet culture management. Togheter with clasical training process Anna was involved with undrground scene and from other contrast hand she was plaining in big bands. From begining various music contexts were very inmportand for her music approach. Zaradny started to play regular concerts with her own music in the age of 17. In late 90' she joined experimental noise rock group Stuconceiling. With this band Zaradny togheter with Robert Piotrowicz they both focused on experiment and finaly on free improvisation. She uses her studies on field of improvised and experimental music. The instrument is open, organic possibility, she searching for new sonic approaches. Zaradny works with extended techniques etc. And also electronics. Anna Zaradny choosed also the way of computer use for creating music. By this she easly deals with digital noise and new electronica. Last period of art activity Zaradny dedicated to cooperation with theatre groups, she composes and produces music for theatre. Together with this she works also on multimedia projects, sound instalations which are bassed on collaboration with photographers, architects etc. She was author of music to films. Zaradny as improviser works usually with Robert Piotrowicz, especially focuses on trio formed together with Burkhard Stangl. She works/worked also with: Tony Buck, John Butcher, John Hegre, Jacek Majewski, Joe Williamson, Werner Dafeldecker etc Zaradny joined on stage such musician as: Otomo Yoshihide, Sophie Agnel, Martin Tetreault, Ingar Zach, Martin Siewert. Anna Zaradny played in Europe (France, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Czech, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Greece, Croatia) and USA. Zaradny participated in such festival as: Audio Art Festiwal, Muzyka z Mózgu, In Beetwen Chicago, Jazz in E., Copenhagen Jazz Festiwal, Jazz en Gatineite, Art Rhytmic Depot. Together with Robert Piotrowicz she runs record label Musica Genera, which organises International Festival of Improvised and Experimental Music Musica Genera Festival. The label organises also concert series, cooperates with many art institutions, events and festivals. Musica Genera record label released till now 11 cds including the most known musicians for improvised and experimental music. The names as John Butcher, Otomo Yoshihide, Zbigniew Karkowski, ErikM, Lionel Marchetti, Chris Burn, Burkhard Stangl, Jerome Noetinger and lots of others cteate the music of today. Zaradny's label activity is absolutely unique on polish scene for experimental music, and it is one of most creative points in Europe for promoting experimental music. More information: www.musicagenera.net |
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