Steve Kornicki Music

In 2004, Steve created an innovative approach to music composition, "Horizontal Color Forms." These works utilize pre-determined structures, 12-tone techniques, minimalism, and improvisation, creating atmospheric music with self-similar patterns, like coastlines, where lines are composed horizontally, building layers of texture and sound.  These pieces, for various ensembles like percussion or strings, focus on rhythmic interplay and the layering of musical material, resulting in unique auditory landscapes. 

 

Key Aspects of Horizontal Color Forms:

 

* Process: Individual musical lines are composed improvisationally one at a time (horizontally) within a larger structure, creating emergent textures.

 

* Techniques: Combines serialism (12-tone), minimalism, and improvisation.

 

* Inspiration: Based on the mathematical principle of self-similarity, where parts resemble the whole, creating consistent patterns at different scales.

 

* Sound: Often described as atmospheric, creating a sense of suspended time, focusing on harmonic and rhythmic interplay rather than traditional melody.

 

In essence, "Horizontal Color Forms" is a method to build complex, layered music from simple, self-similar components, forming distinct sonic worlds.