Thanks to ESG-21 invitation and massive support from the Polish
Institute in Saint Petersburg I had the opportunity to play two (I hope
nice…) concerts in this beautiful city and conduct workshop focused on
electroacoustic music and improvisation. It was a great artistic
adventure and hope there will be another opportunity to visit Saint
Petersburg again.
The first concert took place on Saturday, June 28, during the LEMESG
Electroacoustic \ Improvisation festival at the ESG-21 (organized to
celebrate 15th anniversary of this venue), a part of the Art-Center
Pushkinskaya-10 (which celebrated 25th anniversary BTW). Here are two
photos taken during the concert (for documentary video excerpts please
visit VIDEO page). For the final part of my set Nikolay Rubanov and
Vladimir Luchansky joined me to play a spontaneous and improvised
electroacoustic trio.
Small multimedia exhibition of video, scores and graphic works.
The second concert took place on Sunday, June 29, at the Erarta Museum
of Contemporary Art and contained world premiere live performance of the
complete version of brand new large scale composition : Non Acoustic Symphony.
This event was organized by Erarta, Denis Rubin, with Boris Shershenkov
help and obviously support from the Polish Institute in Saint
Petersburg. Some photos are here, video excerpts (just documentary, with
somehow “bootleg” sound, which gives the impression of a real concert)
may be found on VIDEO page. All video footage by Boris Shershenkov
(thanks !).
I’ve met many interesting, nice people and had a great time. I’m
unable to list all people I should say thank You : Boris, Andrey and
everyone from ESG-21, Denis, Max, Vladimir, Nikolay, Ilia, Sergey, Igor,
Patrick, Christine, all participants in my workshop and many others.
Thank You all very much !
Very special thanks to the Polish Institute in Saint Petersburg for
help, support and care – esp. to Natalia Bryżko-Zapór (the director) and
Natalia Pilugina. Many thanks to Polish General Consulate in Saint
Petersburg for care. See You all soon again !