I am a Swiss composer currently based in Basel. My artistic practice lies between music, art and theory. Recent projects of mine have been presented in several European countries and include composed and improvised performances, ensemble pieces, video works, concert interventions a multi-media installation and recently also a book of text scores.
In my recent work I have tried to not only think about the notion and history of music but also to think with and through it in order to make works that function as models of different realities while being "about" or "from" reflections on musical phenomena.
I believe that beauty can be found in the rigorous cohesion between thought and action and I aim to apply this to my musical practice as much as possible. This hopefully results in works in which theory and practice are in deep interaction and cannot be dissociated.

Ilia Belorukov is a musician from Saint Petersburg, Russia, now based in Novi Sad, Serbia. He works in improvised, noise and electroacoustic music. His works have been released on labels such as Clean Feed, SOFA, Moving Furniture, Astral Spirits, Notice Recordings, Raw Tonk, Mikroton and many others. He founded the Intonema label and was one of curators of Spina!Rec label. He has organized events in Saint Petersburg and elsewhere in Russia, and co-curated the Teni Zvuka and Spina!Fest festivals. Recent activities included writing reviews and articles for Jazzist website and as musicworm on Telegram channel as well as working as mixing and mastering engineer for own projects and different musicians and labels.

"Epic" - Peter Margasak, writing for Bandcamp.com.

(*1994)

I want my work to manifest as a flow of memory and association akin to a state of semiconsciousness in which the dreams of near-actualized utopias, anxieties and acts of will in defiance of a darkening future traverse the sensorium, at the threshold of language, with euphoria, fear, eroticism, and hope. 

I work constantly to develop a space beyond all prior aesthetic divisions, forcefully defining itself on its own terms, understanding itself as the result of a singularity, in a non-AI sense: a single consciousness, or a single group of consciousnesses (as in a swarm or hive), acting at a specific moment in time, with its own desires, relationships to history, propulsions. 

I understand the year 2023 to be a time where divisions between the material and conceptual; the constructivist and the intuitive; the referential and the new have all been dissolved back into an open space of possibility.

I take honesty to be the most powerful engine of invention.

pop/soundsystem/song/club music at @coleblu .

AS A PERFORMER
Kevin has traveled and performed as a soloist and in ensembles all over the world, including Beijing and Shanghai, China; Paris, France; and Maccagno, Italy.  The New York Times reviewed one of Kevin’s concerts as “…precise and energetic…” Since then, Kevin has performed with numerous ensembles such as Iktus+, Ensemble Mise-en, Tactus, Qubit, Tempus Continuum Ensemble, and Inverted Space. Kevin has also been asked to perform as a soloist and with ensembles at many venues, such as Symphony Space, Roulette, Issue Project Room, and Galapagos in New York City.

AS A COMPOSER
Recently, Kevin has received commissions and several other premieres from ensembles such as andPlay, Cellophone, and Ensemble SurPlus. Additionally, Kevin has attended Akadmie Schloss Solitude in 2015, where he studied with Chaya Czernowin, Rebecca Saunders, and Ming Tsao. In 2011, Kevin attended the SoundSCAPE festival in Maccagno, Italy. Previously, Kevin received an honorable mention in the 2009 National Association of Composers of the USA Young Composers Competition for his piece, Meditation, for solo Bassoon. 

VIS.ART
Intrigued by the visual aesthetic of modern classical music's notation, Kevin began experimenting with visual art. Kevin began his visual art career exploring visual aesthetics in experimental music, such as notation, beyond the boundaries the genre would allow. Quickly, Kevin's works are becoming popular, and his works have been shown in numerous Seattle locations. Common Area Maintenance Art Gallery displayed Kevin's series of "Graphic Parts" [a series of 4 drawings, each performed simultaneously by a single musician], sponsored by the Paul R. Judy Center for Applied Research. Recently, Kevin's works could be seen at the 2016 Alki Art Festival in West Seattle.

EDUCATION
Kevin is currently a DMA candidate in Music Composition at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, where he studies composition with Dr. Joel-Francois Durand and Saxophone with Dr. Michael Brockman. Kevin has earned his B.M. in Music Education and Music Composition at the University of the Pacific, where he studied primarily with Dr. François Rose and Dr. Robert Coburn in composition, and David Henderson for saxophone.  He received his M.M in Contemporary Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Dr. Paul Cohen for saxophone, and Dr. Reiko Fueting in composition.

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