Chamber music

Year Title Instrumentation Premiere Duration Link
2022 “Close by Сhoice” Ensemble of synthesizers Premiered by OSCLSI. 8,5' Tintagiles Fragments
2021 “Transformation into Artificial Intelligence” Baritone voice and viola da gamba Written for duo “La Quantité Discrète”, not yet performed. 8,5' Transformation into Artificial Intelligence
2019 "Bellangere's Tale" (Trace of Maeterlinck II) Soprano solo, cello and electronics. Not yet performed. 10 min Bellangere's Tale
2018 “Mayakovsky - Order No. 2 To the Army of the Arts” Solo voice and percussion Premiered by the duo DLSI. 5' Mayakovsky
2012 “Praying for pure soul” 5 recorders with voices Premiered by the ensemble Seldom Sene. 12' Praying for pure soul
2011 “Don't wake the beast in me” Recorder and accordion Premiered by the duo DLSI. 5' Don't wake the beast in me
2010 “Song-Line” Vocal trio (3 sopranos) Premiered by TRIO GENERATOR BERLIN 12' Song-Line
2010 “Memento Mori” 4 vocalizing recorder players (2 sopr., ten., alto) Premiered by the ensemble New Quartet Generation. 5' Memento Mori
2010 “Pole ne pole” Chamber ensemble (picc., cl., vn., va., vc). Performed by the ensemble Bent Frequency. 3' Pole ne pole
2010 “Ehohe” Flute and guitar. Premiered by Yugo Kawai (flute) and Thomas Keck (guitar). 4' Echohe
2009 “Fly's Tears” Alto saxophone and piano. Premiered by Pierre-Stephane Meuge (saxophone) and Jacqueline Mefano (piano). 80' Fly's Tears
2008 “A” Chamber ensemble (fl., cl., vn., pno, perc., voice) Not yet performed. 7'
2008 “Dust of Time” Chamber ensemble (2 vn., fl., pno) Premiered by Demetrius Spaneas (flute) and Conservatory students. 5' Dust of Time
2007 “Five Breaths” Five performers Performed as a tape version. 7' Five Breaths
2007 “Up the down Staircase” Vocal quartet (4 female voices) Premiered by vocal quartet of Saint-Petersburg Conservatory. 5' Up the down Staircase
2006 “Farewell” Violoncello and piano Not yet performed. 5'
2006 String Quartet #2 "In H" String quartet Not yet performed. 8'
2006 Brass Quintet Brass Quintet Not yet performed. 7'
2006 “Trio” Violin, violoncello and piano Played by the student's trio of Saint-Petersburg Conservatory. 5'
2005 “Earth and Clouds” Chamber vocal ensemble or choir. Played by the vocal ensemble "Eleon". 7'
2005 Sonata Bassoon and piano Not yet performed. 6'
2005 “Indian Fantasy” Flute, sitar and tabla Not yet performed. 5'
2005 Ballet scene “Man-Robot” Chamber ensemble. Not yet performed. 5'
2003 String quartet #1 String quartet Played by string quartet of Saint-Petersburg Conservatory. 10'
1999 Cycle “Sky angel” Soprano, mezzo-soprano and ensemble Played by the ensemble of Kaliningrad Music College. 25'
1998 Cycle “Remembrance” Clarinet and string quartet Performed by the ensemble of Kaliningrad Music School. 10'
1991-1997 Children's songs Voice and piano Author's performance. 60'

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.

Article

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.