sichuan walts

Nostalgia3000

This is a sampler of an album "Nine Pieces for augmented Piano".
Release coming soon!

CREDITS

Dima Ustinov: Music, arrangement, piano, synth, concept.
Korney Kretov: recording, mixing, mastering, musical algorythms.
Semyon Lashkin: Cello (Twinkling Void)
Nikolay Lgovsky: Percussion (August, Sichuan Waltz)
Kasyan Lekus: Contrabass (August, Sichuan Waltz)
Ilya Ryzhkov: Light installation.
Protey Temen: Cover art
Dima Devin: Design
Alexey Shubin: Piano Master.

BLESSINGS.

To the teams of the Richter Hotel and the Bashmet Center.
To the project patrons Sergey Surganov, Evgeniya Kuyda, Sergey Poydo. Alexey Shubin for piano support.
To Alexander Bashmet for help and faith.
Anna Sharunova for endless support.
Anya Karmanova, for all her hard work.
To Lena Fedorova for musical midwifery.
To Leonid Lipelis for being my personal Rick Rubin.
Kristina Sitnikova for the public relations.

To all the donors to my crowdfunding campaign who believed in and supported this project.

9 Pieces in 9 Minutes (album sampler)

IMA is an algorithmic music improvisation agent, created by Korney Kretov and Dima Ustinov. 
It can be describe as a stochastic musical instrument or as a generative music algorithm.
Either way, the interaction between live human improvisors and IMA is a center of this study. IMA can be controlled by an engineer/conductor, generate the "seed" for musical improvisation, but also it can be used to connect 4 spaces of the museum into one big soundscape. It can help to connect two improvising musicians in different rooms. At this stage of development, IMA can not react to players imput without the ingineers help. That brings its application closer to that of the instrument. We tend to think of it as a mycelium field  that helps to generate music ideas.
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzejq0XKtDQ

IMA performance feat. Korney Kretov and Misha Kadurin

This is a soundtrack for a dance performance by Anna Abalikhina. dedicated to life and work of Anna Golubkina.

Music, piano, synths - Dima Ustinov
Clarinet - Andrey Bessonov,
Cello - Alina Anufrienko

Marble (ballet soundtrack)

Live electronic session for Endel Moments, designed for entering a flow state.

Endel Moments - Flow Session

Live electronic session designed for Endel Moments

Endel Moments - Focus

Endel Moments - Relax

What is DOM?  The goal was to create a special space (a sanctuary, ashram, an asylum), that can have a transformative and psychoactive power.  We opened 8 rooms in a neo-gothic mansion for 24 hours for everyone to come and spend as much time as they wanted.  People can sleep, wander, read, write, dance, paint, play music (in some rooms), eat, and drink tea.  But - no alcohol, no shoes, no cellphones, no talking.    The key, the center, the beginning and the end of this space is music.  But music emerges from the space and quite a few people are involved in building and holding the space.  There are musicians, cooks, tea masters, muses (guides), actors, and performers who basically lived in this space for 2 days.  Every room has a “muse” / master - someone who looks after the room - and, often, fills it with his studio equipment (like a gong room / jam room / theatre room). People took their personal music “altars” to their rooms. Some rooms were designed to be interactive and suggested more engagement for everyone.  For example, “the duet room” with two grand pianos and a sign “play with me”.     The “program” was non-existent. All effort was on building the set.  The rest - from beginning to the end - was spontaneous. Musicians wandered through the halls and rooms and engaged in improvisation with each other and sometimes guests. Every participant was specifically instructed not to don't give in to pressure to "entertain" guests and to do just what “feels right” in the moment…Towards the end, everyone (even the gongs from the gong room) was naturally pulled to the main concert hall for a final ritual..     Two instances of “DOM” were created - in February and in November 2021.

DOM final session 07.02.21

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Dima Ustinov is a multimedia artist, composer and curator. 
He is working with improvisation and communication systems in music.

For any questions and requests contact: 
taras9000@gmail.com

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