compositions

for trombone, percussion, viola and cello with fixed electronics

performed by Julian Pfeil, Tobias Furholt, Justyna Robak and Sebastian Triebener as part of Werk_statt Festival 2022 in HMDK Stuttgart

anonymous material ii (2020)

In groben Zügen

Recorded live on April, 25th, 2024 
CRR de Paris

Ruben Mattia Santorsa, electric guitar

Ensemble 2e2m
Léo Margue, dir.

Natura Electrica

June 29th, 2024, performed by ensemble mosaik in the UpTo3 Festival

thermo_doxa (2024) [clarinet, viola, drumset, electronics] - ensemble mosaik

A quartet for guitar, cello, clarinet and percussion, performed by Garage Ensemble, 14 May, 2024, Düsseldorf

Four Songs By The Firelight

“....I read somewhere that what I believed to be poetic and sublime testimonials of
my conviction that life is a desperate confrontation with unknown forces are in reality
cute girlish dreams, flaring with sexual symbols....”
Dorothea Tanning

Premiered by ELISION Ensemble
Melbourne Recital Center

Kathryn Schulmeister
Marshall McGuire
Peter Neville

Children’s Games

bellow (2017) // Third Coast Percussion & Annika Socolofsky

Tres Nocturnos

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@julienracine music instills a sense of deepening discomfort, bordering on dread but always just shy of that plunge into outright terror. This is evident particularly on album highlight ‘Désordre Baroque’, a half-alive ambient wasteland that is somehow both colourful and desolate.

Quelque Chose Tombe

Racine - Désordre Baroque [Danse Noire]

sound postcard to my friends

aural sense from 2017

IlolliPop. Alex Paxton - Trombone and Composition.
Ensemble Modern. Conducted my Enno Poppe. (25mins)
CRASHKURS HUMAN__MACHINE

Illolipop. Excerpt. Alex Paxton. Ensemble Modern

Portrait of a black cat in motion

Version for VST instruments.
This piece was created with the funds of the Aksenov Family foundation as the part of the Russian Music 2.0 project.

Cover: A Rose and Five Insects, Christoffel van den Berghe, 1618

Revisité

Version for VST instruments.
The third part of the neo-Baroque suite "Revisité", inspired by works by Antoine Forqueray (1672-1745).

Cover: Still Life with Dead Birds, Christoffel van den Berghe, 1624.

Revisité: Lent.

Version for VST instruments.
The third part of the neo-Baroque suite "Revisité", inspired by works by Antoine Forqueray (1672-1745).

Cover by Jan Goedart (1617 - 1668) from book "Metamorphosis Naturalis".

Revisité: Modéré.

Dmitry Burtsev (b. 1992, Moscow, Russia), composer, sound artist, improviser. 

His current artistic research is primarily focused on human perception of sound both within and outside of a musical context in relation to affect theory. Dmitry explores the sonic environment of human habitation through the field recordings and transforms the latter into his music pieces. Another point of his musical interests lies in spoken word and language as the point of departure for a musical thought, which is at the same time influenced by years of accordion practice and free improvisation. Through an ongoing contemplation on memory and  the process of forgetting, Dmitry reflects on the European and non-European tradition in music history in search to understand the present reality through compositional tools and musical discourse.

Dmitry studied composition at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory with professor V.G.Tarnopolsky, from where he graduated in 2017. Additional studies include master classes with Oscar Bianchi, Fabien Levy, and Carola Bauckholt at the International Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky city in Russia in 2016. Since 2017, Burtsev has taken on the role of assistant of the composer Sergei Newski, which provided Dmitry with invaluable experience and advanced his professional skills.

Dmitry’s music was performed by various professional ensembles and performers, such as: Studio for New Music, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME), ensemble Kymatik, L.G.Zykina State Ensemble of Russian Folk Instruments, Pavlos Antoniadis, Sergei Tchirkov, Natalia Pshenichnikova and others. 

Since 2017 Burtsev starts writing music for theatres, such as Moscow Chekhov Art Theater, Moscow Academic Theatre of Vladimir Mayakovsky, Norilsk Polar Drama Theatre and others.

In 2017, he won the Open Space competition at the Museum of Cosmonautics, where he got a chance to collaborate with the Zykina State Ensemble of Russian Folk Instruments. In 2020, he became a laureate of the Russian Music 2.0 program and wrote the piece Revisité for MCME.

Dmitry is also the author of interdisciplinary musical performances, in which he brings together performing arts, free improvisation, collage combinations of contemporary art- and popular music and field recordings. Most of these performances resulted from a collaboration with the Vadim Sidur Museum (Moscow).

In 2022 Dmitry left Russia and currently is based in Tbilisi, Georgia

In 2024, Dmitry started a master's program at Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf under the supervision of Professor José María Sánchez-Verdu.

sound postcard to my friends

Dmitry Burtsev

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