Sokolovsky Ivan & Letov Serguei
Sokolovsky Ivan & Letov Serguei
Genres: Juma, jazz, psychedelic, instrumental, flute
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About Sokolovsky Ivan & Letov Serguei
Ivan Sokolovsky was born in Leningrad on February 10, 1962 and died May 15, 2005, from cerebral stroke. On graduation from the Moscow State University where he was studying Philosophy and History, Sokolovsky was offered to write for a number of magazines on post-modernism, post-historicism, and on Russian religious philosophy of the XIX-XX centuries. Instructed in the principles of conceptual composition and sound sculpture, Sokolovsky also began experimenting with self-made synthesizers and tape recorders. In 1983 he rose to prominence as a co-founder and a major composer for the underground band Notchnoi Prospekt, playing the synthesizers and electronically treating the band’s sound. Despite the public acknowledgement he left in 1989 to continue as a professional composer and to embark on a series of solo-projects. In 1991-1996 Ivan Sokolovsky played at a number of prestigious international music festivals in Europe: World Wide Music (Berlin, Germany), Ultima (Oslo, Norway), New Ethnic (Leipzig, Germany), etc. In 1993 he launched own Random Studio to explore music delving into ambient, space, experimental soundscapes, acid, electronic and more. “Formed as a vehicle to allow us to release individual music of the most experimental and innovative character, Random has gone different stages in nine years that it has been in existence… Home of the intelligent wayward and the bizarre experiment we are building up a roster that is as unique as it is ground-breaking. There are no boundaries to the music, it is dedicated to bringing you the most interesting results of artists existing in a true underground space.” Since 1996 the composer has been involved with the SOLDAT SEMYONOV project, which is putting together an ambitious mix of art-readings by Arkady Semenov and music by Ivan Sokolovsky. Sergey Letov (Russian: Серге́й Фё́дорович Ле́тов), born on September 24, 1956, is a Russian musician and composer, known for improvisational style, and the founder of Pentagram recording label. He has collaborated with numerous jazz, avant-garde, modern classical, rock and electronic music artists including his younger brother Yegor Letov, composer Sergey Kuryokhin, and cult Soviet art punk band DK. Also wrote music for movies and plays, collaborated with Russian, Italian and Austrian theatres, German non-profit cultural association Goethe-Institut, and Moscow Institut of Journalistics and Literature.
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