Denis Kolokol: voice, electronics
Alexander Chikmakov: guitar (1, 2)
Carmina Escobar: voice (4)


Q: You studied composition but not vocal. How did it happen that the voice became your main source of sounds that you work with?

A: To be completely honest, I always hated my voice, espessially when it's amplified. On the other hand I wanted my performances to be more sensual, but didn't want to make it simple way - I was looking for something existential, something deep, risky. So, I thought, well, I've got my voice, it's mine, it's ugly, and it's something I will never get rid of - then why not to try making something interesting out of it?

Funny enough, when my vocal excercises actually started, I quickly noticed that the voice, I hated, was not mine - there was something completely different inside me, that never came out before.

So, I just decided not to comfort myself anymore. Comforting is also a limitation, but it's doubtful if this works. I believe it's very important to open up towards something that is not on the list of your preferences - through numerous errors, challenges and misleading cues, doubts and thoughts "maybe I have to stop trying". But if you finally go through all this, then you gain totally unexpectable results, something you would never expect from yourself.

Q: This cd is a documentation of a process of you becoming a composer. And this moment of statement is about... how clear can you be with what you want to say?

A: Some time ago I got interested in the chaos theory, especially after reading a remarkable article of a mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz "Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" The basic idea of the theory of chaos is that any complex dynamic system shows extreme sensitivity to initial conditions. That means that the behavior of the same system in two cases with .......
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Długo oczekiwana płyta ukraińskiego kompozytora i artysty dźwiękowego, mieszkającego obecnie w Krakowie i mającego za sobą pobyty rezydencyjne w krakowskiej Akademii Muzycznej i na kalifornijskim CalArts. Znakomity debiut, w skład którego wchodzą cztery kompozycje zrealizowane pomiędzy 2008 a 2010 rokiem.

Denis Kolokol: głos, elektronika
Alexander Chikmakov: gitara (1, 2)
Carmina Escobar: głos (4)

Fragment wywiadu z artystą, załączonego do wkładki płyty:

Q: You studied composition but not vocal. How did it happen that the voice became your main source of sounds that you work with?

A: To be completely honest, I always hated my voice, espessially when it's amplified. On the other hand I wanted my performances to be more sensual, but didn't want to make it simple way - I was looking for something existential, something deep, risky. So, I thought, well, I've got my voice, it's mine, it's ugly, and it's something I will never get rid of - then why not to try making something interesting out of it?

Funny enough, when my vocal excercises actually started, I quickly noticed that the voice, I hated, was not mine - there was something completely different inside me, that never came out before.

So, I just decided not to comfort myself anymore. Comforting is also a limitation, but it's doubtful if this works. I believe it's very important to open up towards something that is not on the list of your preferences - through numerous errors, challenges and misleading cues, doubts and thoughts "maybe I have to stop trying". But if you finally go through all this, then you gain totally unexpectable results, something you would never expect from yourself.

Q: This cd is a documentation of a process of you becoming a composer. And this moment of statement is about... how clear can you be with what you want to say?

A: Some time ago I got interested .......
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