STEVE'S
STORY From innovative works for the concert hall to background production music heard on television and radio around the world to the creation of experimental video pieces with electronic music, Steve's talent and diversity extends to many aspects of the musical and audio-visual worlds.
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. Kornicki has been working for years as a composer, sound artist, video artist, audio producer and private music instructor. 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 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 World premiere of "Vertical Color Forms #1 (Cosmic Vistas)" along with "Morning Star Rising" performed by the Rhodes College Orchestra conducted by Joseph Montelione at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, October 2009. Tempo Distortion 4 (for marimba and processed marimba samples) performed by:
Steve's film, television and radio production music credits include: Steve's production music tracks in various styles available: Creative Arts Connections Music Steve's composition "25 x 8" from his CD Orchestral, Conceptual and Ensemble Music featured on NPR's nationally syndicated ambient music program Hearts of Space (playlist) in November 2008. CD available from amazon.com or cdbaby.com. Horizontal Color Forms #22, received its world premiere by the Chicago Miniaturist Ensemble at Ossia Fine Arts Space in Chicago in September 2008. 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. 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. 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. 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. Media Press publishes Tempo Distortion 3, Tempo Distortion 4, Horizontal Color Forms 12 "72 Tones", and Horizontal Color Forms 16 in 2007. 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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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. His concert music since 2005 has been based exclusively on these processes consisting of contrapuntal textures of non-melodic lines and structures built from sustained tones and repeated single note patterns with an underlying tonal or modal