Sergey Letov It was year 1980 when I heard Vladimir Resitskiy for the first time. His group gave a concert in one of the Moscow newly-built halls, I think, it was the Olympic Village concert hall. It was the first new jazz group live concert that I heard then (before that I only had disk […]
Vladislav Makarov Moscow. Stankolit. In the foreground – A.Tsarovtsev and Ò. Didenko, near to her Sofia Asgatovna Gubajdullina, Igor Letov (at The tape recorder) in the same line through one V.Makarov. 1983 For Igor Letovym it is seen Lepnitskiy (in tubiteika), to the right of him (in Black glasses) – Boris Grebenshchikov. In the first […]
Alexey Borisov Alexey Borisov and KK Null International festival movement takes its origin back in the 50’s. The world just recovered from World War II, general economic growth took place and people received a real possibility to communicate on a creative level, exchange information and share achievements in art and culture in general. Even confrontation […]
Alexey Borisov Down “Night Avenue” of first Russian electronic music People and Instruments. From “BESM-6” to … 2004. Emulator- 2 In the beginning of the 70’s I moved to Cheryomushkinsky district of Moscow. My parents were given a separate apartment (before that we lived in a communal apartment near Mir Avenue) in a so-called house […]
Sergey Letov Some apocryphal tales claim that history of new improvisatory music in Russia began in the 60’s. Before I started performing, I heard from Boris Labkovsky, a very versatile coeval of mine, that there was a Moscow musician Victor Lukin, who invented such free improvisatory music and performed it. Later, drummer Mikhail Zhukov, who […]
Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A couple of years ago all advanced musical world celebrated the 500 anniversary of the famous musical collection “Harmonice Musices Odhecaton” by Ottaviano Petrucci. Several major labels released this record, called “a hits collection a whole century” by the English magazine GRAMOPHONE. The genre of a musical collection appears more serious than […]
There was a time when we studied algebras in the Novosibirsk Boarding School of Mathematics and Physics. I remember learning the attributes of transitivity, reflexivity, symmetry… The teacher gave a funny example to explain the anti-symmetry in plain terms: A=>B does not mean that B=>A, and if you replace “=>” by the words “love” or […]
