Archive for 2006
30.09.06 – Grundik’s duo with Gregory Reynolds at Chocolate Factory
30.09.06 – Grundik’s duo with Gregory Reynolds at Chocolate Factory – 5-49 49th Avenue, long island city, ny, 11101. 10.30-11.00 pm.
17.09.06 8 pm at Inwood Hill Park (off 218th Street, next to the Nature Center)
17.09.06 8 pm at Inwood Hill Park (off 218th Street, next to the Nature Center) The first event in the OUTWOOD series (experimental art in Northern Manhattan). OUTWOOD #1 An Improvised Happening for Musicians, Dancers and Video Artist at the Top of Manhattan Sunday, Sept. 17, 8 pm Inwood Hill Park free/donation OUTWOOD #1 is [...]
“TOPHETH PROPHET Special”, Filth Forge, Frogs, 2006
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Talek Glover, taking notes, Frogs, 2006
Creating an audio work that is both interesting and that achieves it’s objective of representing the world of frogs is no easy thing to do. However Grundik+Slava have done just that and it works surprisingly well. Using a combination of techniques including field recordings, electronics, electroacoustics, synthesisers, noise and drones, built around Victoria’s improvised vocals, [...]
Frans De Waard, Vital Weekly 548, “live journal 12.28.2005″
The best release of the three is however from a Russian musician living in New York: Grundik Kasyansky. He had releases on State Art (see Vital Weekly 424) and Creative Sources Recordings (see Vital Weekly 530). His instruments include a computer, small theremin, radios and feedback synthesizer, although he limits himself to the latter here. [...]
Vlad McNeally, Regen Magazine, Frogs, 2006
Like a haunting, subtropical journey, Grundik + Slava’s Frogs utilizes field recordings, dissonant wailing vocals, and moody drones to paint a tale of frogs and their surreal rain forest home. The project Grundik + Slava formed while the duo attended university in Tel Aviv; even though Grundik now resides in New York City, this unusual [...]
Wire, 272. on the ‘outer limits’ page by sam davies, Light and Roundchair, 2006
Full of frequencies between frequencies and sounds between sounds, Light And Roundchair is a finely tuned exploration of the strange interstitial spaces between sound events. A vocabulary of tones slowly evolves, almost disappearing as soon as they are focused on, like a set of counterpoints of accompanists in search of a theme. On “10.9.2005″ Tod [...]
Alan Mine, Heathen Harvest, Frogs, 2006
Sometime in 2004 Grundik & Slava released one of the most beguiling, intriguing and absolutely beautiful releases titled ?…For Electronics and Birds’ on the Russian Stateart Record label. It should have sold tons. In truth…probably no-one went out and bought it. The mixture of experimental and avant-garde electronic pieces to be found on there can [...]
Frans De Waard, Vital Weekly, Light and Roundchair, 2006
Of much more interest is the disc by one Grundik Kasyansky, which sounds Russian, but the four pieces were recorded in New York City. Kasyansky uses a feedback synthesizer, computer, small theremin and radios, to create one very long piece, and the three others last from four to nineteen minutes. This is quite a minimal [...]
Ikonen Magazine, Frogs, 2006
“Frogs” ist der zweite Teil der “Fauna” Trilogie des russischen Duos und somit der Nachfolger von “…for electronics and birds”. Die CD ist den Fröschen der tropischen Regenwälder gewidmet. Das Warum bleibt unklar, jedoch zieht sich die “Frösche im Regenwald” Thematik durch die gesamte CD. Grundik & Slava sehen sich selbst als Duo, allerdings ist [...]