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STEVE'S STORY

From symphonies recorded and performed by European orchestras to background production music heard on television and radio around the world to the creation of experimental, non-narrative video pieces, Steve's talent and diversity extends to many aspects of the audio-visual world.



Composer Steve Kornicki’s ability to integrate diverse musical elements into his own unique and personal vision has led him to his current practice of composing accessible music based on numerical processes and advanced musical theories. He draws his inspiration from conceptual music theory and the natural sciences while preserving an intellectual, compelling and simultaneously evocative and emotional impact with his music. Steve Kornicki has been working for years as a composer and sound artist.

Steve's latest work translates his extensive experience with sound into visual forms. These visual forms are represented as experimental video works accompanied by innovative music for digitally processed sampled instruments and sounds.

From 2000-2003, he lived and worked in Los Angeles, composing for media corporations and working closely with musicians at California State University Long Beach. He has written concert music for orchestra and chamber ensembles, music for electronic media and pieces for music libraries, video, film, dance and theater productions. He studied composition & music theory with Jeffrey Mumford and guitar performance with William Peters at the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia, PA. Read more . . .


Steve and his wife, Melissa, offer creative and marketing services to individual artists, non-profits and small businesses. Their company CREATIVE ARTS CONNECTIONS provides innovative multimedia communications and marketing including DVD brochures, CD-ROMs, logos, graphics, web design, custom music and audio recording services. Creative Arts Connections, Inc. is also devoted to arts enrichment and artist support.

Steve Kornicki's philosophy is to dissolve borders between politically defined genres of music and embrace all forms as equally relevant to the modern composer.

NEWS

Steve and Melissa Kornicki's audio-visual piece, Anamorphic Visions of Arizona (Transfigurations #3) was premiered and featured as an installation at "An Affair with the Arts" at the West Valley Art Museum in Surprise, AZ in March 2008.

Steve's media production music is being heard on television across the globe (US, UK, Australia, Germany, Mexico and Canada). Highlights include:
**Fox TV's The Simple Life (2005-2007)
**Lifetime Cable TV (2007)
**Major League Baseball TV Special (2006)
**Sirius & XM Satellite TV (2007)
**E Entertainment Broadcast (2007)
**CBS Promotion (2003)

New CD - Transformations and Manipulations. Experimental and process oriented soundscape explorations for sampled and digitally altered orchestral and instrumental sounds drawing inspiration from minimalist and ambient textures. For more information and to purchase, please visit CDBaby.

Horizontal Color Forms #15, received its world premiere by the West End String Quartet in Pittsburgh, PA in January 2007. Concert recording broadcast September 2007 on Pittsburgh's WQED Classical radio.

Preview Steve and Melissa Kornicki's audio-visual pieces.

Tempo Distortion #4 on YouTube performed by Dave Gerhart.

Steve and Melissa Kornicki's recent audio-visual piece ALTERED ORCHESTRA (LIQUID VIDEO) premiered and featured at TRANSreveLATION, an audiovisual concert that explored form and structure - presented by James Briggs III and Melissa Grey, April 2007 in New York City.

Tempo Distortion 4 (for marimba and processed marimba samples) premiered by David Gerhart at California State Univeristy Long Beach, March 2007.

Steve appears as guitarist, bassist and assistant producer on Life in Balance's Om to Ohm on Koch Records.

Media Press publishes Tempo Distortion 3, Tempo Distortion 4, Horizontal Color Forms 12 "72 Tones", and Horizontal Color Forms 16 in 2007.

Steve launches Creative Arts Connections Music Library. Production music tracks in various styles are available through the library website: http://www.cacmusic.com

29 x 7 was included in Free Play Six: Listening Chamber at Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI in January 2007. The event featured a wide variety of electro-acoustic music amid a display of contemporary artworks by nationally renowned metalsmiths Dennis Nahavetian and Tara Stephensen.

Horizontal Color Forms #16, was premiered by the California State University Long Beach Percussion Ensemble with Dave Gerhart, conductor, in December 2006 along with Varese's Ionisation and other percussion works.

New Electro-Acoustic Commission for Violin and Guitar for Duo46 This work is part of a new electro-acoustic project... more

Echoes of Emergence was performed by the CSU Long Beach Percussion Ensemble in May 2006, conducted by Dave Gerhart. A 2001 performance of this piece is available on Steve's latest CD.

Steve and Melissa Kornicki's conceptual video piece, TRANSFIGURATIONS was displayed as part of the Collective Dreaming Exhibit at ArtSpace303 in Homestead, PA (March 2006), at the Pittsburgh Young Professional's 2006 Business-Arts Collaborative in Pittsburgh, PA (March 2006), and at Sweetwater Center for the Arts in Sewickley, PA at a month-long exhibition (Jan-Feb 2006).

TEMPO DISTORTION #1 was performed at the Cornelia Steet Cafe in the heart of Greenwich Village (New York City) on Frank Oteri's "21st Century Schizoid Music" concert series by the New York Miniaturist Ensemble, a Juilliard School chamber ensemble (March 2006). In February 2006 the New York Miniaturist Ensemble performed Horizontal Color Forms #12 "72 Tones" at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in New York City, along with the premier of Karlheinz Stockhausen's "First Natural Durations", and in December 2005, the Ensemble premiered this piece at the Chelsea Art Museum in NYC.

MORNING STAR RISING (Symphony No. 1) is now available on ERM Media’s “Masterworks of the New Era, Volume Six” CD conducted by Robert Ian Winstin with the Kiev Philharmonic.

 

 

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