Sketchbook: Wonderland Is Annoying

Roman Parkhomenko (Russia, 1993) is a composer. Since 2020 - co-founder and coordinator of the reMusik.org - OpenCalls (St. Petersburg).
His music has been performed in cities of Russia, Italy, Austria, Greece, Switzerland, Cyprus, USA, Israel, Lithuania and Spain at such international festivals as Mixtur, St. Petersburg International New Music Festival reMusik.org, CEME 2020, Biomechanics, Felicja Blumental, Europe-Asia, etc. Among the performers of his music: Divertimento Ensemble, Meitar Ensemble, Ensemble SEV, MotoContrario Ensemble, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Studio for New Music, ensemble “Russia”, GAMEnsemble, Novosibirsk Youth Orchestra, etc.
He is the winner of 12 international composer competitions, including Novalis (Croatia, 2022) and the grand prix of the Open Space (Russia, 2020).
Roman Parkhomenko is a composer of the electroacoustic art & science opera DIVE (New Opera Moscow Theater, 2021).
Roman was an active participant in composing academies and workshops: Impuls (AU), CEME 2020 (IL), Sound of Wander (IT), International Divertimento Ensemble Academy (IT), reMusik.org (RU, 2019,20,21,22), X International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky city (RU), Festival Mixtur (ES), Academy for Contemporary Music in Lucerne (CH), 5th International Young Composers Academy in Ticino (CH), Open Space (RU), Fusion Film Scoring (GR), Brush Creek Foundation For the Arts (US), Agora - Forum & Sounds (IT), Composer+ Summer Academy (LT), Playa residency (US), coOPERAtion (RU), Contemporary Music Lab (CY), Pro-music lab, MCME’s Reading Session, micromusiclab, CEAMMC Multimedia lab (RU), etc.
Roman had lessons with H.Lachenmann, P.Ablinger, D.Kourliandski, B.Furrer, R.Cendo, P.Billone, O.Bianchi, S.Gervasoni, K.Lang, M.Andre, M.Mochizuki, M.Lanza, M.Momi, S.Prins, S.Nemtsov, M.Stroppa, V.Tarnopolski, S.Newski, P.Leroux, J.Bailie, A.Toovey, etc.
His piece “Collision” has been selected for Followmyscore-2021 by Score Follower!
Upcoming premieres include pieces for Ensemble intercontemporain (IRCAM ManiFeste-2022), ensemble Suono Giallo (ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week 2022), Roadrunner trio (Roadrunner Academy), Michel Marang, etc.

Moscow based classical composer / arranger / sound engineer. Compose orchestral, ensemble music.

Rock Flexible is a spare-time guitar player, multi-instrumentalist, producer and singer based in Berlin, Germany. 
He is much interested in the technical and production side of things and he will immediately stop making music as soon as he has achieved his final goal: Creating music in the quality of the ones producing for Radio and commercial CDs :o)
His other projects like the Electronic Music project based on KORG's Volca stuff can be found here https://soundcloud.com/rock-flexibles-elektro.
Rock has done many tracks based on Lyrics or piano pieces of the fantastic Jaime J. Ross which can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/jaime-and-rock.  
His seasons of the "The Great Conqueror" epic instrumental series is available under https://soundcloud.com/the-great-conqueror .
Here on this profile his favorite songs and new releases can be found ...
The latest project is based on an own Modular Synth RF has started to set up. So, hopefully interesting soundscapes to come :)
Hope you enjoy ... 
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Rock owns a small home studio - the "CandyLand Studio" in Berlin. He uses the following - not complete - list of equipment to record and mix his music:
- Guitars: Fender, Ibanez, Schecter, Charvel, Ovation
- Guitar FX: Eleven Rack, Boss GP-10, NI Guitar Rig and a modded CRATE Amp
- Mics: Neumann KM184 MP, Shure SM57, SM58, SM7B, Brauner Phanthera
- Outboard: WA76, Joemeek VC1, SPL GoldMike, TC Helicon Voice Live Rack
- Electronic: KORG Volca Bass, FM, Sample and Keys, NI Maschine, Roland TR-09, Kaoss Pad 3+, Arturia Drumbrute + Beatstep Pro, Roland MX1, Pocket Operator PO-35 und PO-14
- Eurorack Modular with modules from Doepfer, DreadBox, Mutable Instruments, MakeNoise, SSF, TipTop, EoWave and Manhattan Analog.
- Interface: RME FireFace
- Monitors: ADAM A7X
- DAW: Logic Pro X and Ableton Live 10
- Software: NI Komplete Ultimate, Several Waves Plug-Ins, Melodyne, u-he Podolski, Toontrack EZ-Drummer 2 & EZ-Keys
- Flutes, Whistles, Clarineau, Duduk
- Percussion (quite often I use real percussion over ready-2-use loops)
- Hurdy Gurdy

Ionut Mirel Udrea (Member Of APRA/AMCOS) is a music composer, piano player and music producer based in Sydney - Australia. 
Ionut Mirel Udrea composes emotive piano-based instrumental music.

𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙜 𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙠'𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞-𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙤 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙪𝙥 𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙢𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙨.

Sketchbook: Wonderland Is Annoying

Alina Mukhametrakhimova