Daniel Menche + Zbigniew Karkowski vs Philipp Geist

Daniel Menche

A musician that challenge music to explore new emotions, that look for a deep impact with pure sound, as long, dense layers of droning sounds and sounds amplified and processed to extreme levels, in an effort to provoke and stimulate the listeners imagination by generating intensely powerful music. Musique concrete, without ever being just 'noise'. At Dissonanze he will show his intensely physical body percussion and multi layered vocalizations creating a sonic entity of total flesh and pure sound.
He has amassed a sizeable discography on some the most discerning independent labels in the world and performed live extensively throughout North America, Europe and Japan.

www.esophagus.com

Zbigniew Karkowski

Composer and performer of contemporary music, Karkowski was born in Poland, but studied composition, aesthetics of modern music and computer music in Sweden, and sonology in the Netherlands. While in France he practised with Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, and Georges Aperghis, among others. Zbigniew works actively as a composer of both acoustic and electroacoustic music. He has written pieces for large orchestra, plus an opera and several chamber music pieces that were performed by professional ensembles in Sweden, Poland, and Germany, and is a founding member of the electroacoustic music performance trio "Sensorband." He 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 he left Europe, he moved to USA and, from 1994, Japan, where he is active in the underground noise scene. In fact, he is not interested anymore in traditional definition of what is music and, in his opinion, all theory and systems of music as a cultural concepts have to be destroyed. 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...