Andrey Kolomytzev

Andrey Kolomytzev is taking part in sound art residence and festival “Sound Around” (sound art labs/workshops, residencies, closing festival).

Andrey Kolomytzev (b. 1959) is a composer / sound artist in the field of experimental electronic music and multimedia. Developes mixed media approach combining digital technologies, musique concréte, self made electronic instruments and legacy analog synthesizers.

Started solo activities in 1986, as a keyboard player and multimedia specialist. Since 1991, worked for several TV and production companies as a resident 3D/multimedia artist and score composer for documentaries. Musical albums had been released inFrance,USA,Russia. In the 90s, switched to sound experiments and sound design. Worked with many different musicians and groups: from Soviet reggae/punk “Komitet Okhrany Tepla” to German free jazz outfit “Saechsische Improvisation Ensemble”. By the year 2000, had founded SEMICONDUCTORS community, a home for experimental electronic musicians inWestern Russia. Concentrated on collaborative acts combining live electronics with video. In 2010, returned to studio work continuing a lifetime project called Living Loops.

SoundCloud webpage: http://soundcloud.com/user9763701
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/stirli_tz
Encyclopaedia of Electronic Music: http://www.pugachov.ru/eem/sofram.html (search for «StirliTZ» on the webpage)
Speech Suppressor audiovisual installation: http://www.ncca.ru/en/events.text?filial=4&id=727

“Sound around” project proposes a series of residencies for sound artists and organization of 3 experimental music festivals in Kaliningrad, Klaipeda and Gdansk. The project aims at multilateral exchange of experiences, practices and technologies between sound artists from Poland, Lithuania and Russia. Exploration of sound landscapes of 3 cities, Gdansk-Kaliningrad-Klaipeda, will become the basis of communication between the artists and will include creation of sound-cards, multimedia installations and experimental music concerts. Within the framework of the project there will be mutual visit exchanges for collection of the material and organization of the workshops, lectures and demo concerts. The closing final festival will consist of concert, exhibition and theoretical parts. Also, it is planned to produce project documentation in a form of a CD or a vinyl.

Sound Art residence and festival “Sound Around” is a part of the project «Close Stranger: promoting mutual understanding between population of Gdansk, Kaliningrad and Klaipeda through facilitation of exchange in the field of contemporary arts and culture».