14.01.07, 8pm, tooth 485 driggs ave, brooklyn.

quartet: paul neidhardt – percussion, alban bailly – guitar, dustin hurt – trumpet, grundik kasyansky – feedback synthesizer

Album: “Collage”
Grundik Kasyansky: feedback synthesizer, samples, assemblage
Leandro Barzabal: guitar box
Label: Kunstkamera, KUNS0004, Creative Commons License, 2006
Time: 0:29:00
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Album: “Open Window”
Nori Jacoby: viola, flutes
Grundik Kasyansky: feedback synthesizer, radio
Label: Kunstkamera, KUNS0003, Creative Commons License, 2006
Time: 0:41:55
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06.12.06, 10pm. Good Bye Blue Monday: 1087 broadway in brooklyn, new york (bushwick) J train to Kosciusko St. or M or Z to Myrtle Ave.

1st set: Bailly/Kasyansky duo: Alban Bailly – guitar, accordion/ Grundik Kasyansky – feedback synthesizer. 2nd set: Glaciers Glaciers: Ann Adachi – flute, Gregory Reynolds – alto sax, Grundik Kasyansky – feedback synthesizer. 3rd set: CAVEnsemble + special guests: Ayako Kurakake (movement), Erika Hassan (movement), Shige Moriya (live video mixing), Ninni Morgia – e. guitar, Grundik Kasyansky – feedback synthesizer

Album: “Duets”
Slava Smelovsky: electronics, jew’s-harp, tambourine
Grundik Kasyansky: electronics
Arcady FreeMan Kirichenko: bass trumpet, vocal
Label: Kunstkamera, KUNS0002, Creative Commons License, 2006
Time: 0:45:42

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Grundik and Slava present online archive “Kunstkamera”, a collection of curiosities: live recordings, documentations of audio installations, odd unreleased projects and collaborations all downloadable free of charge in lossless FLAC format. Some recordings are 15 years old, others are relatively new. Besides Slava and Grundik the archive includes contributions from Victoria Hanna, Igor Krutogolov, Chaos As Shelter, Ant Weis, Leandro Barzabal, Jack Wright, Guillaume Viltard, Nori Jacoby, Maya Dunitz, Lev Bomstein and others.

We hope you’ll enjoy these sounds!

Album: “Grundik+Slava and Victoria Hanna, live in Jerusalem, April 15, 2004″
Grundik Kasyansky: radio, electronics
Slava Smelovsky: guitar, laptop
Victoria Hanna: voice
Label: Kunstkamera, KUNS0001, Creative Commons License, 2006
Time: 1:10:36
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07.10.06 Bowerbird, Philadelphia: Grundik Kasyansky (feedback synthesizer) w/ Shige Moriya (video), Ninni Morgia (guitar), Juan Merchan (movement)

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 year For his solo project however Grundik has stripped things right back. To the extent that he is working with delicate pitches, fragile textures of static and sharp pin pricks of sine tones, forming these almost intolerable micro symphonies of sound. His main instrument is feedback synthesizer, though he’s also working with radios in which he mines the gold barely off channel, computer and theremin. There are subtle skips, clips, tiny flutters of static as the radios and the digitalia bubble and pop aimlessly. Though generated via feedback these are quiet sounds requiring active listening, possibly best with headphones to block out any extraneous environmental sounds, as otherwise it would be easy to lose some of the subtlety in Grundik’s composition.

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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 a multimedia happening for simultaneous live music, video mixing and movement coming together as multiple “solo” improvisations within a given time frame. The participants are free to act and react as they see fit while remaining aware of the fact that they are within a shared vicinity and working within a common timeframe. The participants are asked to remain aware of the fact that they are the center of a multidimensial “sculpture” which will grow since from beginning of the performance and will be destroyed immediately after it ends. The organic process of creation suggests staging the event outdoors. The Inwood Hill Park event video will include video projection onto tree leaves and the artists. Musicians will play along with ambient sounds and dancers will “transform” into trees and water. The company will include emerging and more established Inwood residents along with members of Brooklyn based CAVEnsemble and artists from other parts of the city, rediscovering together the beauty of Manhattan’s secret paradise. Grundik Kasyansky (direction, feedback synthesizer) w/ Kurt Gottschalk (banjo, bouzouki), Erika Hassan (movement), Juan Merchan (movement),Ninni Morgia (guitar), Shige Moriya (live video mixing), Gregory Reynolds (sax), Petre Radu Scafaru (reeds), Len Siegfried (guitar)

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. Recorded on December 28th last year, he plays some ultra soft music. Soft peeps with lots of silence in between. If you put the volume all the way up, you may even hear much more sounds that aren’t unlike insects or bugs in your room. Quite an intense release, this one.

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