'19'21 Improvisations and Demos

The idea of Dance For Dead And Living Mix was born after visiting suburbs of Kyiv city, Ukraine in May 2022, where russian army abused and murdered over 1000 civilians, also tragically known as Bucha massacre.


"Dance For Dead And Living Mix." features gloomy but aggressive techno tracks, mixed together with some baroque elements and an authentic Ukrainian folk song "hohsinnia" (11:55). Air sirens sound was recorded during actual air raid in Kyiv, Feb 2022.

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Cover - residential building in Bodrodianka, bombed by russian forces

Cool Cat: Dance For Dead And Living Mix

This composition is my reflection on the wars and disasters all over the world.
But the «fun fact» – it was composed a three-month before the russians have started a full-scale war against Ukraine. So, now I imagine this piece in another way.

Voices Around Us (2021)

🔝 Мільйони стрімів на Spotify, контракти з лейблами і музика до серіалів. 

Сьогодні спілкуємося з композитором Едвардом Кравчуком (Edvard  Kravchuk) і слухаємо його твори! 

🌒 Як це - композитору з Івано-Франківська мати слухачів більше ніж у «Калуша»
🌒 Скільки композитори заробляють у Spotify
🌒 Як писати музику, щоб утримати увагу слухача і чи потрібно для цього закінчувати консерваторію
🌒 Чим Тік-Ток корисний для композиторів

Композитор Едвард Кравчук: як отримати мільйони прослуховувань на Spotify

My first take on hand-made contact mics. Turned out to be noisy, but nice anyway.

Apple tree breathing in the wind

Adumbration: to suggest, disclose, or outline partially; to foreshadow vaguely; overshadow, obscure.

Adumbrations goes through a series of statements towards a sensibility of ideals and shadows, utilizing female voices reciting a series of tongue twisters that iterate sibilant, fricative, and bilabial sounds. If spoken incorrectly, the sound qualities of these tongue twisters are heard as curse words. Therefore, there needs to be consistency in the process of speaking these tongue twisters explicitly. In the English language curse words can function as multiple parts of speech, and as the saying goes, people who curse more frequently are more honest. 

This piece explores the dichotomous relationship between certain ideals and shadows, i.e. consistencies and inconsistencies, actuality and potentiality, and the explicit and the honest, as it goes through a series of musical adumbrations that “halo” the process of these tongue twisters. Through these adumbrations, the contradictory can be either one or the other of the ideals or shadows turning on itself, and at times the appearance of the clarity and the inaccuracy are in an indefinite flux through these halos.  This occurs as inconsistent phonemes are turned from inaccurate iterations of the tongue twisters into something sounding consistent.  The halos are supplementing the voice within varying simultaneous parameters that include shimmering, radiating around the iterations and vice/versa, and existing as a spatial supplement revolving in different stereo planes around and as a process, and out of the immersive comes our personal perception of the contradiction.  One can think of this adumbrated halo, in this sense, as a place where the dichotomous relationship becomes indistinguishable, and laughter for a flawed system. 

This piece is partially inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s movie Persona.

Thank you so much for the wonderful voice recordings:
Elizabeth Gartman
Caroline Mckinzie
Logan Piker

Adumbrations

На відстані

I’ve never been to New Zealand. 

I’d like to go one day though.

I’ve heard some people say it’s kind of like a mini-South America? Plateaus like the pampas. Modern cities like Buenos Aires or Santiago. Mountains and snow like Patagonia. Fjords like in the south of Chile. Surfing beaches like Brazil. It sounds cool.

I’ve got some Kiwi friends - they are legends.

I’ve always loved NZ film and television. Flight of the Conchords blew my mind and anything Taika Waititi does (in my opinion) is creative gold.

On the 15th March 2019, an event happened in New Zealand that made global headlines. I remember it quite clearly. Of course, the event sparked important discussions and debates about religion, terrorism, nationalism and many other important social constructs. But, what I remember most was the live stream at 6pm that evening from the NZ prime minister, Jacinda Ardern. The speech was centred around the phrase, “As Salam Alaykum, Peace Be With You”. The speech was a clear statement, full of compassion and unity. It was both rousing and reassuring. 

My aim is not to directly comment on the event or highlight a specific political agenda in this piece, but merely to celebrate a sincere and profound bit of spoken word from a modern leader. I hope the piece highlights this for you and gives you a sense of place and time as you listen.

Artwork by @mikakoelma

As Salam Alaykum - Jacinda Ardern’s famous 2019 speech set to music

Whale Song Stranding


Inflections as sound process to sound quality
Emanating otherness of the
Sound quality to sound process from the reflective

Resulting in an immersive rhizome-like sound world of the omnipresent of the dream like and the very literal 

As different zones are successive, simultaneous, above, below, before, and after, to neither rise nor sink but only float 

A longing as the friction, disputes of the literal and dream-like

And

A persistence of a pulse, heavy, through the literal as a constant movement and the abstract ingenuous stillness, a sound world of the discursive and the narrative

Chiastic process and quality is undermined as the reflections and inflections recur in rounded proportions.  The immersive and form is only tangible through this insistence that is perceived as a dream occurring in real-time

Figuratively
Whale Song suggests, quite literally, uncertainty that is

Stuck between the discursive and the narrative,
The moving streams/waves and the pure tones surrounding within,
Stranding

Whale Song Stranding

Composer, keyboards player, session musician.

Voices Around Us (2021)

Yevhenii Dubovyk

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