In the context of this conference, interaction between the musician and the score is envisaged as document activation. To address this link, a special performance of Soviet composer Nikolai Roslavets’ Chamber Symphony No. 2 by New Music Studio is the second and final intervention.
Roslavets, childhood friend of Kazimir Malevich, is considered one of Russian and early Soviet music’s greatest innovators, introducing a new system of sound organization. From the early 1930s, Roslavets was subject to sustained criticism by the Russian Association of Proletarian Composers and Proletkult, meaning that the symphony was not played during the composer’s lifetime or at any time in the twentieth century. The score was discovered in the archives of the Glinka Music Culture Museum in the 1990s. New Music Studio is a leading Russian contemporary music ensemble, which has premiered in Russia over a thousand pieces by some of the key Russian, European, and US composers.