PIOTR KUREKs Lectures (Crónica 042) sind eine elektroakustische Hommage an Cornelius Cardew. Kurek, 1978 in Warschau geboren, ist bisher am ehesten noch für das Projekt Slepcy bekannt. Er war in der glücklichen Lage, seine Musik für Perkussion, diverse Blasinstrumente, Akkordeon und Synthesizer, die er 2007 für eine vom Avantaktivisten Michal Libera organisierte Konzertreihe der innovativen …
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“Lectures†reviewed by Earlabs
Cornelius Cardew was a musician who had his feet in avant-garde music. He worked as assistant of Karlheinz Stockhausen, was member of free improvisation group AMM and at the end of the sixties formed the group Scratch Orchestra. While in this orchestra he build up a huge aversion against avant-garde music and the elitist nature …
“Lectures†reviewed by Rumore
Origini colte invece per Lectures (Crónica) del polacco Piotr Kurek, che interviene su registrazioni acustiche effettuate a Varsavia nel 2007 ad un festival intitolato a Cornelius Cardew, intercalandole con frammenti di conferenze e performance del compositore, procurate dal di lui figlio Walter. Attivo anche nel combo breakcore Slepcy, Kurek opera alchemici tagli e montaggi, dando …
“Lectures†reviewed by Rockerilla
Dopo aver di recente (Rockerilla 349) tessuto le lodi di Tomas Bednarczyk, ci trovia- mo a parlare di un altro giovane polacco attivo da qualche anno in contesti di musica di ricerca. Piotr Kurek (1978) omaggia, con un atteggiamento che si colloca a metà strada tra lo spirito di devozione e il rigore filologico, la …
“Lectures†reviewed by De:Bug
Kammermusikalische Gesten von Holzbläsern, viel Percussion (Gongs), Klaviertupfern, zuweilen elektronischen Klängen und scharfen, dünnen Streichern umstreifen sich, in loopartige, halbimprovisierte Strukturen hinein. Immer wieder ist die Stimme von Cornelius Cardew zu hören, Bandaufnahmen, die dessen Sohn für einen Cardew-Festival-Beitrag zur Verfügung gestellt hat, auf dem diese CD beruht; Vorträge (daher der Titel) und Probenschnipsel, in …
“Lectures†reviewed by Monsieur Delire
A strange record, very delicate. At first, it sounds like a lecture with instrumentalists illustrating what the lecturer says – all acoustic. Yes, but, isn’t Polish soundsman Piotr Kurek an electronician? And isn’t Portuguese label Crónica specialized in sound art? Exactly. And Lectures is actually a work made with sounds lifted from recordings by Cornelius …
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“Lectures†reviewed by The Wire
After an opening passage of music, the unmistakable voice of Cornelius Cardew is heard, refined and almost prissy in lecture mode: “I don’t know how many of you are musically educated…” before going on to explain how indeterminacy might be applied in a performance situation, material specified or elided, rules to be followed, broken or …
“Lectures†reviewed by Vital Weekly
The other new CD is an odd-ball, certainly for a label like Cronica Electronica, who deal with laptop music and electronics. I have no clue as to what Piotr Kurek does to generate his music. Sometimes it seems like improvisations on acoustic percussion (such as in ‘Part 1’) but then something like ‘Tripartite’ could very …
“Lectures†reviewed by Laif Magazine
“Lectures” to najnowsze wydawnictwo w katalogu mieszczÄ…cej siÄ™ w portugalskim Porto oficyny Cronica. Jego autorem jest mieszkajÄ…cy w Warszawie Piotr Kurek. Postać znana już na scenie pokrÄ™conej elektroniki choćby z breakcore’owoego duetu Åšlepcy. Jego solowe poczynania to jednak zupeÅ‚nie inna bajka. MateriaÅ‚, który znalazÅ‚ siÄ™ na tej pÅ‚ycie pierwotnie skomponowany zostaÅ‚ w 2007 roku na …
“Lectures†reviewed by Cookshop
Would you believe it? A young Polish artist, previously signed to labels like kool.POP and Cock Rock Disco, utilizes some of Cornelius Cardew’s most private recordings for his solo debut, and seemingly gets away with it too. One wouldn’t have been too surprised if the disc was pushed by Cock Rock’s ‘diva’ herself, Jason Forrest, …