Steve Kornicki Composer and Musician

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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

November 21, 2008 -- Steve's composition
"25 x 8" from his CD Orchestral, Conceptual and Ensemble Music can be heard on NPR's nationally syndicated ambient music program Hearts of Space (playlist).
CD available from amazon.com or cdbaby.com

Steve's media production music is being heard across the globe (US, UK, Australia, Germany, Mexico and Canada). Highlights include:
**Barry Levinson film, "What Just Happened" starring Robert DeNiro (2008)
**Guiness Book of World Records: Live Top 100 (NBC)
**CBS
**"The Simple Life"
**E! Entertainment
**Lifetime Cable Network
**Major League Baseball
**Sirius and XM satellite TV
**NPR
**Various TV/radio promotions and features (U.S., U.K., Germany, Australia, Mexico, Canada, Netherlands, Japan, Brazil)

Steve's production music tracks in various styles available: Creative Arts Connections Music

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.

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

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

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

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.