Biography

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The photos of Olga Krashenko are an exception in our all digital world: her "photo-painting" depends on the encounter between light and different surfaces as a result of multi-dimensional reflections. Sometimes she installs in a very specific way her various surfaces: mirrors, glasses, bright reflecting papers, water and other materials. In other situations she may catch the magic moment of the natural light which is going to disappear quickly after only a very few minutes.

Olga Krashenko has been involved in photography since 2012. She made some special photo for the booklets of such CD labels as Mode Records, Stradivarius and Acel. Also her photography was used as a source material for visual projections and transformations in her opera "Macondo" in different places in France (Paris, Toulouse, Sarge sur Braye).

Her photo works were exhibited in France in festivals in Bessé sur Braye, Tuffé, Saint Calais, Sargé sur Braye, Saint Maixent and other French cities. In 2016, her photography was selected for the International Photography Exhibition "Explore The World" which took place at the Drik Gallery.

From 2018 to 2023, Olga Krashenko created the entire visual part of the video opera "Tintagiles" from photographs and video materials. She also photographed and used paintings by artists such as Anne Bleauwart and Vladimir Kara in this work.

Featured works

2024

Book "Research on Musical Holes"

In my book "Research on Musical Holes", I developed a method of musical thinking that goes beyond traditional musicology. The book researches the contradictions, paradoxes and missing elements in music as a concept and all extra-musical elements connected with it. Many such things are usually not addressed in studies that try to present music theory in the form of clear, precise distinctions. In this book, familiar musical concepts are subjected to deconstruction, a search for contradictions and ambiguities, and discussions about what is missing (and, in general, about the concept of freedom due to absence). Musical holes will be identified and made analyzable. If one is sure that the definition of music and its components, as well as, the process of its creation and the localization of its sounds in space and time, are all somethings that are very obvious and simple, then this book will give rise to doubts, rethinking, and a radical new look at music as concept and sonic phenomenon. This could be the equivalent of certain logical paradoxes in philosophy and the unconsciousness as blind spots and half-truths in Lacanian psychoanalysis.

2023

Opera "Tintagiles"

The video-opera «Tintagiles» is based on the play of Maurice Maeterlinck «The Death of Tintagiles». The video-opera genre combines sound and motion by creating a fusion made with synesthesia in the case of this composition. The opera includes 7 characters with electronics (multi-channel tape) and a special video. The length of the opera is 2 h. 30 min. The form consists of 5 acts as well as a prelude, a postlude and 4 interludes.

2021

CD of the opera "Macondo"

Sound poetry libretto written by Olga Krashenko, inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Opera for 4 soloist-instrumentalists, choir, ensembles, orchestras and concrete sounds. Soloists: members of the ensemble C.L.S.I. (Circle for the Liberation of Sound and Image). Vocal, instrumental and concrete sounds composed and recorded by Olga Krashenko. The opera is dedicated to the memory of the writer G.G. Marquez.

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Synesthesia of Sound in Colour and Motion

on the example of video-opera “Tintagiles”

If at the neurophysiological level we are dealing with the borderline state of different zones and their intersection, which is typical for synesthesia, then in the field of art, the genre of opera already initially allows you to combine different ways of perception into one experience, thus overcoming the resulting separation and fragmentation of specializations in art and recreating the synthesis with the help of modern means and technologies.

Today opera continues to be relevant, and not only within the walls of opera houses, but also beyond them. The opera “Tintagiles” based on Maurice Maeterlinck's play “The Death of Tintagiles” is an example of a video opera (2017-2022) in which textual, musical and light-color symbols are synesthetically combined with the help of modern sound and video recording technologies and where their interweaving covers the whole range of possible associations, from the literal to the distant and abstract.