The Russian electro-acoustic group Sirens & Goethe Institut invite Lillevan to Moscow and Niznij Novogorod to perform interpretations of music by JS Bach at the Bach festival & the Long Arms Festival.
Lillevan performs solo and with the Nizhny Novgorod Soloists String Quartet.
October 2008.
Performance dates here
Video documentation clips coming soon
The SIRENS combine electronical and live sound to produce compositions based on different noises of the river Volga basins. The river Volga basins – like hypostases on a body – become symptoms of the desease: flooding of villages and cities, still water, destruction of fish and accumulation of nuclear waste in the silt…
Electronic and string tracks were composed individually. Such specialized ways of making each track are to emphasize sound atmosphere of each basin. Strings, as well as electronical tracks, use the musical range which is similar to the sound of water basins.
In the mysterious and chaotic sounding created by an indifferent computer it is possible to feel fragments of the Volga tunes, steamship sirens, boatswains’ pipes and peals pressed up to few notes…
Video program is based on the optical effects originating from illumination of water surface, which is influenced by live music.
Sound-Art – Evgenie Strelkov
electronics – Anton Tcherkasov (The Rat hole)
strings – Olga Shajdullina
quartet “Soloists of Nizhni Novgorod”
director – Vladimir Plaksin
1 violin – Dmitry Stoyanov
2 violin – Vladimir Plaksin
Alt – Victor Ljubimov
Cello – Natalia Telminova
