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Musical Art</h1>
SLIDE-MUSICAL programs are constantly demonstrated in the
<br>hall and other places. The compositions feature union of
music
<br>with picturesque images achieved by smooth changing of
slides.
<br>The most significant compositions are - "Romance"
(music by
<br>G. Sviridov), "Clouds" (music C. Debussy), "Ave. Maria"
(music by
<br>F. Shubert), "Embrace one another , millions of people!" (music by
<br>L. van Beethoven), "Sadness" (music by
R. Pauls), "Space
<br>dandelion", "Pink Floyd", " Music of
Tatar ornament". The
<br>potentials of the art form were used more widely in the
special
<br>large scale concert programs "MUSIC,
POETRY, PAINTING" we
<br>performed jointly with organist R. Abdullin in the assembly
hall
<br>of Kazan Conservatory: "Ave Maria in world art", "Faustus" (music
<br>by P. Eben), "Garden of pleasures" (O. Messian - I. Bosch), "Paints
of
<br>ancient Russia" (Music by R. Schedrin, O. Yanchenko),
"World as
<br>great symphony" (music by M.- K. Chyurlenis), "From kurai to organ"
<br>(music by N. Giganov, Sh. Sharifullin,
S. Gubaidullina). Light
<br>concert performance of such genre "Prometei" (Scriabin + Kandinsky)
<br>has been created in 1996.
<br> The possibility to use new equipment
allowed us to switch
<br>over from organizationally burdensome cinematographic experiments
<br>to abstract , LIGHTMUSICAL VIDEO FILMS.
So, we made the
<br>video version of our film "Space sonata"
in which rhythmic
<br>composition featuring actor was encrusted electronically. Several
<br>new video films ,"Temple", "Ballad for Brendt", set on music
of
<br>Polish composers were shot in 1989, with intended stylization
of
<br>images with techniques by such artists as V. Kandinsky,
Kh. Miro,
<br>B. Nikolson, S. Dali. Then three new films were shot :
"Dance of
<br>the vertical lines", "Dance of the white vertical line", "Russian
<br>terminator" set on music by "electronic" composer A. Rodionov
who
<br>lives in Moscow. And finally we shot the film "Frog
symphony"
<br>based on the vanguard computer piece with the same name by Dutch
<br>composer H. de Groot. The idea to make film was proposed by
the
<br>composer itself.
<br> We keep making "battle
reconnaissance" in order to
<br>assimilate new art forms of scientific
and technological
<br>revolution epoch. The results of the
reconnaissance were
<br>demonstrated most completely during the concert "Multimedia" held
<br>in "Scriabin's Days " (April 1990, assembly
hall of Kazan
<br>Conservatory). HAPPENINGS, LASERIUM, INSTRUMENTAL
THEATRE and
<br>CONCEPTUAL ART, the last one in its most appreciable form,
were
<br>demonstrated there side by side with
slide compositions,
<br>video films. Our experiments with VIDEO SCULPTURAL
INSTALLATIONS
<br>opened to us new field of artistical
search. The following
<br>installations are now available :"Live and non-live", "Electronic
<br>boy", "Electronic court", "Video Ave Maria", "Protracted
blown
<br>kiss through the electronic ray tube", " TV set playing
piano",
<br>"Don't renounce beggar's bag and jail", "Electronical grimaces in
<br>the electronic field", "Opart about video art". The TV set is
not
<br>a mere retranslator of images in these installations
but an
<br>"actor" being part of theatric conception. New video installations
<br>created recently are compositions "Go ahead to the
victory of
<br>capitalism!" and "Dog barks caravan keeps
moving" in which
<br>computer, slides and laser are also used.
<br> Our most recent large scale experiment
- "Magic garden",
<br>festive MULTIMEDIA SHOW on the plain air was performed
during
<br>Sabantui (Tatar holiday of plough) in June of 1991. Polyphonic
<br>singing of exotic birds was reproduced in
multichannel mode
<br>through speakers mounted on the trees in the public garden
this
<br>singing being synchronized with light effects. LASER
COMPUTER
<br>GRAPHICS images were demonstrated above the garden onto the wall
<br>of Kazan University multi-storey building. These techniques
were
<br>also used for large scale concerts dedicated to 60 anniversary of
<br>Kazan State Technical University and World Tatar Congress (Kazan,
<br>1992). They were also demonstrated to the participants
of the
<br>International conference " Young cities" held under the aegis
of
<br>UNESCO ( Naberezhnye Chelny, 1993), during celebrations of 50
th
<br>Victory Day (1995). After our first experience with
technical
<br>equipping of Fine Arts Museum, we
proceeded in 1992 with
<br>audio-visual theatralizing of exposition of new museum devoted
to
<br>composer S. Saidashev being fulfilled in tight co-operation
with
<br>our Kazan artists....
<br> Now we begin mastering actively
possibilities of COMPUTER
<br>GRAPHICS , COMPUTER ANIMATION, and COMPUTER MULTIMEDIA.
<br> Each of the art forms is analysed
in the separate book and
<br>variety of articles written for encyclopaedia and
national and
<br>international magazines by members of team (the total number
is
<br>30 books and more 500 articles). These
books include also
<br>description of results of our scientific researches being
held
<br>firstly on essence of synaesthesia (color hearing), and also
on
<br>art synthesis theory. Being now transformed into Institute
for
<br>experimental aesthetics "Prometei" we fulfil , in
accordance
<br>with scientific projects of Academy of Sciences of
Tatarstan,
<br>investigation on the possible correlations between national melos
<br>and national ornament; checking of hypothetical analogy
between
<br>mode gravity - Earth gravity
proposed by B. Yavorsky;
<br>computer-aided simulation of pentatonics and so on.
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