Exhibition project of the composer Dmitry Kurlyandsky "Cryptotishina" Automatic translate

Stella Art Foundation presents the first personal exhibition project of composer Dmitry Kurlyandsky. In his work, he continues the tradition of the relationship between contemporary music and contemporary art. The exposition will acquaint visitors with three sound installations, which will be presented publicly for the first time.

On the eve of the exhibition opening, Stella Art Foundation President Stella Kesaeva said: “We met Dmitry Kurlyandsky in 2014 while the Foundation was working on a production of the opera Nosferatu at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater under the direction of Theodor Currentzis. It was a vivid experience of the Foundation’s cooperation with a new opera, where the composer Dmitry Kurlyandsky wrote the music, the poet Dimitris Yalamas was the author of the libretto, the master of ancient theater Theodoros Terzopoulos was responsible for the direction and choreography, and one of the leaders of the arte povera direction Yannis Kounellis was the curator of the stage design…. The performance was attended by drama and opera artists from Russia and Greece - the legendary Alla Demidova, avant-garde singer Natalia Pshenichnikova, as well as regular participants in Terzopulos’s projects - Sofia Hill and Thassos Dimas. I’m pleased,that our cooperation with Dmitry continues. This fall, the halls of the Foundation will literally "sound in a different way." After all, for the first time at the exhibition there will be no traditional works of art, and the audience will plunge into the space of an audio-sound installation ”.

The central piece will be a composition of four media files with digital silence, which enters into dialogue with one of the most famous silent compositions "4’33" "by American composer John Cage, first presented at the Charity Concert organized to support creativity in the field of contemporary art in Woodstock August 29, 1952. If in Cage’s work the emphasis is placed on the impossibility of achieving a situation of absolute silence, exploding with a million noises during a live acoustic performance, then in his work "Cryptotishina" Kurlyandsky shifts the emphasis to the radical and alarming otherness of digital reality: the played file does indeed play the silence, however the only real listener to this digital void is the machine.

"Pianospace" is a 24-channel generative sound installation - homage to the musical tradition of composing 24 preludes by the classics of academic music, including Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Shostakovich, etc. a real-time crumbling piano sound that becomes a prelude, an intermediate, involving stage to the radicalism of digital silence.

The framing of the two projects will be four works from the series "No way out acoustic situations", in which the sounds of human breathing are intertwined with the noise of the city, working mechanisms, rustles of nature and synthesized sounds, forming a single audio landscape of the end of the Anthropocene era and the transition to the age of digital hegemony.

All three projects are posted on the NFT-market and will be available online, giving exhibition visitors the opportunity to become accomplices of the sound performance by playing files on their smartphones using QR codes.