Visitations/ Jeff Gburek and Karolina Ossowska

systematic structural instability is a process piece involving algorithmic digital transformation based on the frequency spectra of acoustically recorded sounds played in real time. this version for electric guitar and violin. 

Systematic Structural Instability, IV (2014) (Jeff Gburek & Karolina Ossowska))

outset of a new era, a new air, a new lair, in search of lairs. 
Jeff Gburek: acoustic guitar. Karolina Ossowska: violin

Nudity, Ossowska/Gburek

composed with organic and fabricated elements lightly treated with transistor based analog delay pedal in a room in the center of poznan where we can hear the trams rumbling by. the title goes back to my experience living and studying in java, indonesia, the off-intervals of the gamelan, and the alus, the smooth transition, the over-tone-guided deep listening surface into dreamscapes

Alus Adwaah

Headphones recommended. Setting up for the concert, left alone for a while, managed to eek out  a few spontaneous tracks before the audience arrived. Recorded in Louvain La Neuve, Belgium on December 23, 2017. Thanks to Thibault Delferiere. Photo taken by Jean-Jacques at the Paris concert of the same tour.

LLN Sound Check 1

Dubbed the "bluesky instrument" by Karolina Ossowska when titling a folder for the photos she had taken, the name stuck, in my mind, and to the thing. The construction consists of a plank of wood for the fingerboard (painted by Khalid Benashghir), a desk drawer, guitar and banjo machine-heads, guitar and cello strings (the latter, thanks to Agnieszka Kowalczyk), mechanical springs (thanks to the PKP), piezo units done in my signature mounting, bridges of spruce and oak, one old cymbal I found in Berlin, even in the year 2000 (imagine that). Reverb and flashback pedals. Played live. No edits.

Bluesky Instrument 1165

From an upcoming concept album composed entirely of short electric guitar improvisations using under-stated looped tones, clicks, sweeps and other noises.
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FLOOPS 1259, JGBK

Audible Frontiers @ Kołorking Muzyczny, Excerpt of final moment of live concert. Jeff Gburek: shortwave radio, walkie-talkies, room resonance feedback, prepared guitar, woodblock. Karolina Ossowska: violin, piano, bells, ocarina, juju rattle, toy xylophone

Audible Frontiers Excerpt

May 11, 7:56 am, in the tunnel leading from Ogrody to Lake Rusałka. Piotr Delimata: cl. Michał Giżycki: bass cl. Jeff Gburek: melodica.

Resonance Regions I, Rusałka

After mounting 20 pages of Cornelius Cardew's Treatise upon the wall at Kołorking Muzyczny in Poznan, I played the following piece. I am not sure it is an improvisation nor am I yet convinced it's actually an interpretation of the score in any classical sense. Then again about Cardew there was not much classically speaking that he didn't challenge. I sense a new dawn in my interaction with the score.

Contemplating 20 pages, Oct 3

Chiarore Nostalgica Della Mattina

Michał Giżycki: saxophone, bass clarinet Jeff Gburek: prepared guitar, live processing. No computers were used in the live session recorded at Kołorking Muzyczny on December 30, 2018.

Strength In Penumbra, Giżycki & Gburek, 2 Excerpts

-- 'liminal beings diametrically communicating across situational sublimalities' -- piano, feedback, phase shifter -- *******************************************************************************************************************************

Every Snowflake Is Actually Just Like Every Other Snowflake

Tempus Fugit Interea

Innenklavier 2

Karolina Ossowska: keyboards, violin; Jeff Gburek: prepared guitar, magnetic capture, processing.  Recorded in Firenze, Italia. First preview mix, Poznan. 

Visitations I, Preview, Gburek/Ossowska

prepared piano, radio, wire antenna, snail shells, turntable, looper, electric guitar, piezo microphones, microphones.  a process environment developed in response to cornelius cardew's graphic score treatise.  live prepared piano playing partly transmitted through the radio whose wire antenna which is woven through the piano wires is recorded by condenser mics and self-designed piezo plates the re-played live with the addition of snail shells slowing down intoning an old record and other piano accompaniment as well as electric guitar. this is part 1 of a 32 minute set. enjoy, comment. share.  thanks. JG

Water Damage Music, Part 1

violin, bass recorder, electric guitar, live computer processing, production by "the house that thinks it's me". as invariance. the kind stabilizing entropy. numbers and alpabeta letters in phase relations. preserving to infinity unstable potential entry. wordlessness and/or musicality of this. feedback loops as overdriven determinants. the tendency of logic signs to envelope or be enveloped by a design to incorporate them. and all the opposites

Systematic Structural Instability, 2012

Field Recordings. Kitchen Devices, Vegetal and other Implements. Source material recorded in Lee Foust's flat in Florence, July, 2012. 

Systematic Structural Instability #3 (Florentine Tapestries)

Karolina Ossowska: violin; Jeff Gburek: electric guitars, processing; Asia Zielecka, flute. 

Visitations II, Prevista, Ossowska/Gburek

jeff gburek: laptop, processing, theremin
karolina ossowska: violin

meldwater (jeff gburek and karolina ossowska), nov. 23, 2010

listeners will find here the most recent edge of my research as well as album samples and one-offs from the last 10 years of my solo work, from official, upcoming releases, unreleased oddities, works in-progress, & experiments, all music by jeff gburek and collaborators, as noted. support directly via paypal: jeff.gburek@gmail.com or buy albums via https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/