The Polish composer Zbigniew Karkowski, who died all too soon in 2013 and lived in Japan, is and remains in a league of his own. In his almost elegiac pieces of micro-structured noise and rhythm settings, his entire visionary range comes to the fore, whether his pieces were created with a laptop or with electroacoustic means.

He studied composition at the National Academy 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 The Hague, The Netherlands. For over 20 years, he was active in the field of experimental electronic music, composing pieces for a full orchestra, an opera, and several chamber music pieces.

In 2008 Zbigniew Karkowski was a guest at ICST and realized the piece 'No name' in Ambisonics. ICST performed this piece on Friday 03.10.2008 at the Walchenturm in Zurich. We can expect lively noise attacks and sizzling groans. His music is a timeless oeuvre, disturbing and soothing, eruptive and static.

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