Posts filed under “Reviews and interviews”
Tadeusz Kosiek, Gaz-Eta, Light and Roundchair, 2006
Igor “Grundik” Kasyansky to kompozytor i improwizator, autor instalacji oraz muzyki do filmów, spektakli teatralnych i baletu. Od ponad dziesięciu lat, wraz z poznanym podczas studiów na Uniwersytecie Bar-Ilan w Ramat Gan w Izraelu Slavą Smelovskym, tworzy elektro-akustyczny duet Grundik+Slava (http://www.grusla.com). Płyta “Light and Roundchair”, która, zdaje się,jest debiutem płytowym Kasyansky’ego nagrana została w ubiegłym [...]
Nowamuzyka, Frogs and Light and roundchair, 2006
Grundik + Slava – Frogs Grundik Kasyansky – Light and Roundchair Grundik Kasyansky i Slava Smelovsky grają w duecie od 1995 roku. Ich piąta produkcja – “Frogs” (z 2005 roku) to przede wszystkim wynik współpracy z wokalistką Victorią Hanna. Instrumentarium, oprócz gitary, komputera, drum machine, thereminu i live electronics, to śpiewające misy, okaryna, drumla i [...]
startling moniker, for electronics and birds
Part organic ambient excursion, and part country lullaby, this album (of which I have an advance, and most likely incomplete, copy) has really grown on me since the first time I heard it. Utilising electronic instruments, “sound objects,” harmonium, and vocals; Grundik & Slava have really created some beautiful music of startling complexity. Sometimes, it [...]
bagatellen, Grundik Kasyansky – Floating Point, 2007
I highly enjoyed last year’s “Light and Roundchair” from Kasyansky (Creative Sources 062), the first I’d ever heard his work. Now comes the equally intriguing, rather different “Floating Point”, based on pieces done for three dance companies. Not only are the sounds more overtly derived from field recordings but to a great extent the structure [...]
Frans De Waard, Vital Weekly, Grundik Kasyansky – Floating Point, 2007
“About Grundik Kasyansky we a little more than about Lietterschpich, that he has three previous releases (Vital Weekly 524, 530 and 548) and that he plays feedback synthesizer, field recordings, theremin, samples and assemblage and here on ‘Floating Point’ one Fyodor Makarov plays toy concertina. The music is an ‘audio collage based on three works [...]
Pedro Serodio, Ventrilocution, Frogs, 2006
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Bob Baker Fish, cyclic defrost, Light and Roundchair, 2006
Grundik Kasyansky is a sound artist composer and sound designer who apparently divides time between Moscow Tel Aviv and New York City. In 1995 he formed Grundik and Slava with Slava Smelovsky in Israel. Their 2005 concept album Frogs was the most compelling example of electro acoustic avant garde electronica that this writer encountered last [...]
Haimdallr, Frogs, Winter 2006
Released in March 2005 as a joint effort between the two labels Auris Media and Topheth Propheth, ‘Frogs’ of the Israeli-American electronic duo Grundik+Slava is the direct follow-up (and the second instalment in the ‘Fauna’ series) to ‘… for electronic and birds’ (out on State Art a couple of years ago). As suggested by the [...]
“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, [...]