@nts_live monthly show curated by @buttechno

tracklist:

Pavel Milyakov — Spring rise mandolin
Ihor Okuniev — Way in the mist 
Goze — Plez
Pavel Milyakov — gtr waving
Вежа Хмар — Балада про двох лебедів
P — 290616
Valentina Goncharova — Insight
Tim Hecker — This life
Ellen Arkbro & Kali Malone — Oktober
Drew McDowall — Unnatural Channel (Part 1)
Bill Kouligas — VXOMEG
Pavel Milyakov — Moon abandoned amb v1
Ihor Okuniev — Vernal 
Caterina Barbieri — Rendering Intuitions 
M.E.S.H. — Ihnaemiauimx

NTS 07.06.2021 — Ihor Okuniev

Land, 2022
20 minutes
Part 1

Sound work commissioned by Haus der Kunst for Terrace Hall as part of “Tune”, Munich, Germany.
26.08.2022 — 30.04.2023
Curated by Sarah Miles

Working with photography, video, and audio, Okuniev’s practise is inspired by a fascination with his motherland’s nature, customs, and traditions. In Ukrainian culture, the land occupies an important place and is one of its main symbols.

Land is a deeply haunting and atmospheric portrayal of the destruction inflicted upon Ukraine since Russia’s invasion. Burned forests, ruins of houses, and destroyed armored vehicles dissolve into the environment, as the land absorbs the traces of war.

The composition consists of five tracks, that are each different in sound and character, but together form one story. Long drones create a harrowing emptiness, as instruments float in and around the composition, unconfined and lost. The final part is symbolically associated with the sun, the beginning of something new. He recalls how the sun would rise over a large destroyed high-rise building, or a decimated house in a village, illuminating the ruins.

Thanks for the help with mastering @buttechno, special thanks @m-e-s-h

https://www.hausderkunst.de/en/exhibitions/ihor-okuniev

Ihor Okuniev — Land, 2022, Haus der Kunst München

Fields, 2024
10 minutes

Sound work presented at an exhibition by Cyprien Gaillard at Villa Imperiale, Pesaro, Italy.
Against Sun and Dust, 5th Edition

06.07.2024 — 26.10.2024

Curated by Cornelia Mattiacci and Alessandra Castelbarco Albani
with Ruggero Pietromarchi

Invited by Gaillard, Ukrainian multimedia artist Ihor Okuniev composed the sound piece Fields, 2024, which resonates from the courtyard grotto. Part of an evolving work, Fields aims to evoke the atmosphere of the landscape surrounding the artist during the war; field recordings of frozen forests, “cold” winter sounds of nature, complete the synthesized rhythms of the composition. A trace of symbolic and personal memory that becomes a vibrant fragment in the vortex of history.

Thanks to Cyprien Gaillard for the invitation, also to @buttechno for the help with mastering

Ihor Okuniev — Fields, 2024

ihorokuniev@gmail.com

"Land" sound work at Haus Der Kunst 
https://www.hausderkunst.de/en/exhibitions/ihor-okuniev

"Roots" LP
https://psyx.bandcamp.com/album/roots

Ihor Okuniev

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