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Basic Schedule:
Each Tuesday, 12am
Andrei Smirnov
Basic lecture course "Electro-acoustic music: a history, aesthetics, means"
History, elements of musical acoustics, overview of sound synthesis technics, sound processing, MIDI, elements of sound production, weekly listening of the recordings from studio library. The purpose of a course - to give general representation about a history and modern practice of use of technology in music for professionals and music amateurs.
Each Wednesday, 6pm
Electro-Acoustic Wednesdays conducted by Andrei Smirnov and Olga Shishko
Lectures of the visitors, listening of music, analysis of means and concepts, discussion. Conducted by Andrei Smirnov and Julia Dmitrukova. Additional lectures and meetings with the guests,
listening and analysis of music from studio library, review and analysis of repertoire of electro-acoustic and computer music inaccessible earlier for listening owing to complete absence of the given areas in musical culture of the former USSR.
Each Saturday, 4:00pm
Alexei Shulgin - Seminars on INTERNET, WWW
Programs NetScape, Trumpet, navigation in a network, language HTML
Each Saturday 6:30pm-10:00pm
Andrei Smirnov - The Sound Production Workshop
Olga Shishko - Video Production Workshop
Classes for the students preparing for individual work at studio.
International Symposium "Sculpture in the Park"
Andrei Smirnov/Yuri Spitsin: Virtual Sonic Sculpture Project
The group of composers, programmers and video-artists has carried out experiments and preliminary processing of results within the framework of the interactive musical project and international symposium "Sculpture in the Park " in Pereslavl Zalessky City.
We used the Power Glove on sculptor's hand to analyze its movements during the work. Sculptor's gestures were analyzed and interpreted into the MIDI score using the algorithms, created by Yuri Spitsin with the MAX program on Macintosh computer.
The Third reality Forum (St.-Petersburg)
Andrei Smirnov: Report "Biomusic of Cyberspace. New interactive technologies in music"
Tatiana Detkina (The Cloud Comission Group)
Demonstration of the animated film "Bats"
Concert of interactive music with demonstration of installation
"Virtual Sonic Painting"
Andrei Smirnov, Juri Spitsin, Andrei Demidenko - computers
The painter Nikolai Shirokov - Power Glove
With participance of Iguana Dance Theater: Nina Gasteva and Michael Ivanov
International conference "Artificial intelligence in XXI century"
Report by Andrei Smirnov and concert of interactive computer music with participation of composers Valery Beluntsov, Julia Dmitrukova, Yuri Spitsin
Professor Charles Bestor (USA)
Composer, director of Studio for Computer Music at Massachusets University
Presentation of works. Interactive musical installations.
Henri Pousseur, Belgium
Composer, founder of one of the first studios of electronic music in Europe, director of studio of electro-acoustic music (Belgium).
History. Presentation of works
International Festival"Werkstatt Elektroakustischer Music" (Germany)
Moskau - Berlin / Elektroakustische Musik aus Moskau
Concert of music from the Theremin Center
in the program of electro-acoustic music of Berlin Academy of arts
within the framework of the international festival "Moscow - Berlin"
Julia Dmitrukova - "CUORDE"
Valery Beluntsov - "Sine Nomine"
Albina Stoyanova - "Biriulki"
Vladimir Nikolaev - "Antique Landscape"
Eduard Artemiev - "I would Like to Returne"
Valery Martinov Dance Theater
Seminar X-Media
Seminar X-Media.
Chernoyenebobeloye Theatre Presentation
Olga Shishko
Video-Art seminar.
Curator Olga Shishko has demonstrated works from "Montevideo" Center, (Austria)
John Cousins (New Zealand)
Paturau Interface
For videotape documents showing audio/sculptural work in the natural environment of New Zealand.
11 January, 6:00 pm
The problem of meening in electro-acoustic music.
12 January, 6pm
New Zealand Electroacoustic Music
Natalia Abalakova and Anatoly Zhigalov
The history of video-art in Russia. Video-documentation of performances of the artists-conceptualists, early media-projects etc.
16 January, 8:00 pm
Olga Shishko
Seminar on video-art and computer animation.
18 January, 1996, 6pm, Central Cinema Hous, Moscow
Concert of Electro-acoustic Music
John Cousins (New Zealand)
- ICTUS
- On Listening In
- SONGS
20 January, 6pm
Objectives, Methods and Concerns in the making of Sonic Art
22 January, 6pm
Is there cultural identity in the music of New Zealand/Aoteraroa?
23 January, 6pm
Teaching composition in an Institution.
24 January, 6pm
Performances of Electroacoustic works.
26 January, 6pm
Two performance/installations involving relatively simple objects.
'Listen' (a meditation on a Chinese drinking bowl)
'Songs of the Little Lady' ( a work centred around a small button accordion.)
Seminar with participation of the Saira Blanche Theater, Moscow
Collin Ansty (New Zealand)
Video-demonstration of performances
28 January, 6pm
John Cousins (New Zealand)
The workshop: Training of a composition of electro-acoustic music
Tatiana Dober and Alexander Alekseev
The artists, founders of Laboratory for Visual Anthropology
Problem of auto-biography approach in creativity of the artist.
Video-installations 1993-1996
TECHNOLOGY of ACCIDENTS
Valary Martinov' Theater "Canon" & Theremin Center
Musical Dance Improvisation
Music - Andrei Smirnov, Michael Korzin, Maria Nefedova
Costumes - Anna Koleichuk and Elena Basova
Olga Shishko
"Ars Electronica" festival.
Olga Lialina and Gleb Aleinikov
The history of parallel cinema in Russia
2 March, 1996
Viacheslav Koleichuk
Lecture on Kinetic Art, installation, collage, stereography
Andrei Smirnov:
Series of lectures on history of electroacoustic music in Russia.
Concerts and presentations of music from the Theremin Center at:
Princeton University
Oberlin Conservatory
University of Illinois, Urbana
Bregman Studio, Dartmouth College
Ithaca College, lthaca, New York
Berclee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts
Univ. Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma
Participation in a SEAMUS Conference in Birmingham (USA)
Michael Kuznetsov
Philosopher and theorist in the field of new technologies
Institute of Philosophy
From visual to digital (hipertext, Internet)
Alexey Orlov
Theorist of animated cinema.
The Film - aesthetics of an icon.
Examples from the film " Colour of granat" by Sergey Paradzhanov
Nikolay Izvolov
Critics on cinema, deputy director of a Museum of cinema, Moscow.
Early animation 1910-20-х гг. With examples from archive of a Museum of cinema
Алексей ОРЛОВ
Motives of spiritual wanderings in the Yellow Submarine by Jorge Danning
Лео КУППЕР (Бельгия)
Математические концепции ненотируемой музыки
Николай ИЗВОЛОВ
Рисованный звук, работы Евгения Шолпо, Арсения Авраамова, Александра Цихановского, анимация 20-30-х гг., видео показ экспериментальных работ Алексеева и Старевича из архивов Музея кино.
Лео КУППЕР (Бельгия)
Пространство в музыке
25 мая, сб., 19-00
Алексей ОРЛОВ
Продолжение лекции по компьютерной анимации
Ake Parmerud (Sweden)
Representation of Music
ALTERNATIVA'96 FESTIVAL
Electro-acoustic and multimedia Program
Julia Dmitrukova
"Cuorde" for cello and tape
Dmitry Cheglakov - cello
Vladimir Nikolaev
Music for 4 violins and tape
Conductor - Mark Kadin
Iraida Yusupova
"Mefisto Garden. The Seasons. The Winter".
Music for Kozleton and tape.
Dmitry Cheglakov - kozleton
Gunter Heinze (Germany)
"Keep on the move" for trombone and the tape
"The Thirst"
Music, Dance, Light, Video
Structured Improvisation by Saira Blanche Theater:
Oleg Sulimenko, Andrey Andrianov, Svetlana Moskvina
Music by Andrey Dergachev
"The Black Square"
Valery Martinov's Theatre "Canon" Video by Anna Koleychuk, based on the works by Kazimir Malevich, Music by Andre Smirnov
Vladimir Volkov
"The Song of Plains"
Vladimir Volkov - MIDI Drums
Igor Parashuk - MIDI Wind Controller
Video by Alexei Balin and Jana Aksenova
Musical Transformers
Improvisation with participation of Genady Abramov Theater
Music by Sergei Zagny, Michael Korzin, Andre Smirnov, Alexander Kazantsev, Michael Gorshkov, Yury Spitsin.
ALTERNATIVA'96 FESTIVAL
Electroacoustic Music
Ake Parmerud (Sweden)
1. Dance Interplay #1 (Eva Ingemarson - dance)
2. Literary Interplay #1
3. Jeux Imaginaries for tape
4. Dance Interplay #2 (Eva Ingemarson - dance)
5. Literary Interplay #2
6. Exor for piano. (Valery Beluntsov - piano)
7. Dance Interplay #3 (Eva Ingemarson - dance)
8. Retur (Stokholm Saxophone Quartet)
9. Dance Interplay #4 (Eva Ingemarson - dance)
10. Grains of Voices for tape