Discussion Music and Archives: How to Work with the Sound Heritage of the Past

Date

Schedule

19:30–21:00

Place

Garage Auditorium

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Modulation: Music in a Transitional State

DESCRIPTION

Sound exists only in the present moment, constantly slipping away from the listener.

Some researchers and musicians attempt to reconstruct the sounds of the past using surviving scores, plans, and documentary evidence. Others use archival recordings as artistic material, combining them with contemporary sounds and placing them in new contexts.

Participants will discuss how sound can be used to explore cultural memory, whether it is possible to recreate the sound of a bygone era (and whether such a reconstruction can be considered authentic), and how new musical expressions emerge from field recordings and voices recovered from the past.

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Discussion Music and Archives: How to Work with the Sound Heritage of the Past

Speakers

Maria Shishova
Is a vocalist, director, and one of the founders of Hodíla Izba, a Moscow-based experimental folk-fusion group that has released three albums and participated in the production of the ballet Les Noces at Novaya Opera (Moscow).
Peter Aidu
Is a pianist, composer, and sound artist, Chair of the Board of Persimfans, founder of the Piano Shelter project, and author and director of sound and music performances. As a composer, he works at the intersection of instrumental theater, sound installation, and sound design, developing his own approach to sound art, which he calls phonorealism. Aidu performs and teaches piano and harpsichord at the Moscow Conservatory. He is a Grand Prix winner of the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize and a winner of the Golden Mask, Russia’s national theater award, in the Experimental category.
Oleg Nesterov
Is a musician, producer, and writer who frequently works with archives as material for new works. His projects include From the Life of the Planets, a concert/music performance about an unmade Soviet film, and the book series Three Degrees of Freedom about the forgotten legacy of Soviet film music.
Pavel Pankovsky
Is a musician, composer, sound designer, and music producer for INDEX III, Hodíla Izba, and Komon. He has composed music for a range of projects, including exhibitions at the State Historical Museum (Moscow), the MYRA Center (Suzdal), and the Shemanovsky Yamal-Nenets District Museum and Exhibition Complex (Salekhard).

Moderator

Kristina Chernova
Is editor at the Institute of Musical Initiatives (IMI), a journalist, and a musician. She spent a semester at the University of Cologne, where she researched punk in East Germany and attended lectures on the history of musique concrète. She worked as an editor for the educational platform PostNauka and as a research writer at Moscow’s Museum of Cryptography. She is one of the authors of New Criticism: Sound Images of Post-Soviet Pop Music (2021).