Electrostatica. Contagious Architecture – Nikita Vasilenko and Dmitry Mazurov

The title of this eight-channel sound/mixed media performance refers to the theoretical work by Luciana Parisi, and suggests that sound may be considered as an agent intervening in the spaces of architectural objects as if they were living systems colonizing other organisms and environments. The musicians employ techniques of algorithmic composition, stochastic processes, generative structures, and synthesis and distortion of the audio signal in the chain of modulators. They seek to investigate the relationship between programmed material and the potential of its errors by addressing the acoustic properties of a multichannel sound medium as adapted to the space in which this musical performance is improvised.

Nikita Vasilenko is a sound artist, media researcher and curator. He has created projects for Bankistan and XYXY BANK. He collaborates with video artists, theatre artists, and theorists. His main areas of interest are modern media theories, visual culture, biotechnology, and the philosophy of technology. He holds an MA in Visual Culture, from the Higher School of Economics.

Dmitry Mazurov is a composer, video artist, and musical theorist, who studies the fields of academic art and the phenomena of experimental electronics and sound art. He has participated in numerous festivals "inSonic 2017"; Geometry of the present; Syntposium; Arkhstoyanie; Another Space Festival of Contemporary Music. He releases his music on various Russian and foreign labels.