fluc_wanne
dienstag 15. Mai 2007
22:00
klub ruin:
LIVE:
APSE [US]
LIVE: ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI [PL]
dj's: peter nachtnebel / philipp quehenberger / christian egger
Nach
den beiden RUIN-Festivals in den Jahren 2005 und
2006, bei denen so große Namen wie Acid Mothers Temple, Sand,
Tony Conrad u.a. auftraten, gibt es ab Mitte Mai einmal/Monat den
Klub Ruin, der trotz seines Hauptsitzes im fluc auch
an anderen Orten Wiens stattfinden wird und schwerpunktmässig
auf Live-Acts aus dem Noise-, Experimentalmusik- und Post-Rock- wie
auch aus dem Free Jazz/Improvisations-Bereich setzt.
Die Reihe wird mit den New Yorker APSE und den in
Japan beheimateten Polen Zbigniew Karkowski einen
Anfang setzen.
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.
Formed
in New England in 1999, Apse has been writing and
performing music for 7 years, spanning an array of different eras,
styles, aesthetics, and lineups. The band released it's first S/T
Debut in April of 2005 on Acuarela Discos, of Madrid, Spain. Their
first release has been acclaimed as an essential exploration in different
forms of ambient rock and post-rock, with hints of damaged pop, shimmering
and interlocking guitar arpeggios, pounding percussion, and rich,
luscious walls of sound. Themes of spiritual and interpersonal paranoias
inform the album, delivered through indirect, often eerie lyrics that
surface and retreat during the duration.
Upon
the international release of their brand new LP 'Spirit' - Apse will
set out to Europe, winning the hearts and minds of those who are able
to catch their unparalleled live performances, culminating with a
final concert in November at Spain's annual Tanned Tin festival.
'Spirit'
- out on Acuarela in September 2006, sees the band investigating rich
percussive and rhythm-based compositions, a stronger inclusion of
pop aesthetics, more of an emphasis on vocals, creating a dark, addictive,
brilliant body of work that is their most accessible, yet by far most
original work to date.