Aftercolor is a suprematist experience of sensations arising from the transition between radically opposite states. What will you feel when the meditative harmony of the perfect red circle in the sky above your head suddenly breaks, and collapses with rushing sharp laser shards and and the bass shook the whole space around?

The installation was located in the round courtyard of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, once open to the public specifically for this project.

Aftercolour (Music for the Installation)

We are pleased to share our most popular installation, which was visited by tens of thousands of people during the @NUR festival. "Laser Meadows" allows each visitor to walk barefoot along the slopes of valleys covered with the complex abstract patterns of Laser Lumia. These patterns unfold in sync with the music, forming long loops and waves without a clear beginning or end, free from digital and physical confines.

Working in a very extreme and experimental manner, creating music and visuals out of disorder and chaos, we have been surprised to find that people are ready to spend hours inside our works. The experience becomes akin to a hypnotic picnic, where visitors find themselves engrossed for extended periods—reminiscent of a joyful, carefree childhood, cheerfully running, dancing, meditating, or just sitting on the curves of the floor and chatting with friends.

We have felt that people have found here a unique connection between the technogenic and natural worlds, experiencing a sense of unity with the modern environment. In this place, where nature is precisely a mirage, the purely artificial environment has ceased being intimidating. Instead, it becomes something understandable and pleasing for everyone.

BandCamp

Laser Meadow Angle

laser meadow curve

PSR J1032−5804 is a 10-meter multimedia sculpture functioning as a glitch in reality. It consists of a mass of sharp, torn forms reminiscent of errors and artifacts of digital processing — but existing not on a screen, but in real life.

All of its components — the architectural form, the music, and the visuals on the screens — are built from reprocessed radio signals of a strange neutron star, which rotates rapidly and emits powerful pulsating waves, in which a clear rhythm is combined with chaotic peaks and random noise, as if the very nature of the star is constantly switching between order and malfunction — literally quoting our name broken composers and revealing the essence of our artistic method.

The name of the installation refers to the astronomical coordinates of this pulsar.
It is located in the Milky Way, within a triangle formed by the stars Vega, Deneb, and Altair — the brightest stars in the summer sky of the northern hemisphere.

Echoing this triangle in the sky, the sculpture is constructed from triangular mirrored panels and diagonally divided screens. When the image on them jitters and rhythmically distorts in sync with the sound, we quite literally see how outer space — a completely alien and inhuman environment with its vast scales, pressure, velocities, density, decay, and radiation — breaks into everyday reality, deforming both it and our perception.

32-5

broken composers & Tsygun- boloto (remix)

Xorosho

Razdub

Nichego

Acid cock

Opasnoste

Assumption

False Techno

solid revolver

"genre-bending techno" showcases the devilish techno spirit that some might say has been lacking in recent years, but hits will full force ahead of our forthcoming album.



no note
you're dead
you're fucked
react

reAct

broken composers - reAct

Xorosho (live)

xOrosho (live )

“Broken rooms” is a music  created by a network of random number generators. In real time and with minimal human involvement.

The experiment is based on field recordings — sound landscapes familiar to everyone who has been to Moscow. Evening traffic jam on the Boulevard ring, empty Metro station at night, a school playground during the summer evening, an underpass where aspiring cellist torturing the cello, the Chimes tolls above the snow-covered Red Square.

The work of the random network is similar to a conveyor and an orchestra, where each participant taking just a tiny little action. First one cuts the incoming sound stream to pieces of random length, from milliseconds to a minute. Second one builds those pieces into rhythmic sequences. The third grabs the sequence and tries to turn it into a melody. The fourth imposes a weird sound effect, like an echo with endless feedback. The fifth turning a little knob in this effect plugin

Thus, 300 random generators work contemporaneously creating 5 parallel tracks of sound. And most of the time they generate a boring insipid noise. But sometimes the network seems to catch some kind of inspiration and creates soundscapes of amazing beauty and complexity. The role of the musicians is to try to capture this moment and save it to a file.


About the creators

Broken Composers is a Russian experimental audio-visual project. Duo's live performances are complex and improvisational dialogue between right and wrong, spontaneous and thoughtful.

The sound of self-made instruments, reworked woodwings and flutes, the rumble of chains, hammers and metal pipes passes through electronic devices, crumble, catching to loops and, finally, turn into a friable ambient, acid techno and weird electro.

The visual part of the show is hand-made installations based on the laser lumia effect, the refraction of a laser beam in complex-shaped glass prisms.

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