Multimedia concert of electro-acoustic composer Nikolai Popov (Moscow) and multimedia artist Andrew Quinn (Australia)

June 30, 2016 at 18.00 in the framework of the I International Festival “Abstraction without Borders” (06.22. - 1.09. 2016) in the Gallery of Modern Art (57 Karl Marx St., Kazan) a multimedia concert by electro-acoustic composer Nikolai Popov (Moscow) and multimedia artist Andrew Quinn (Australia).

In real time, 8 compositions of 8 minutes each will be created over an hour. Each composition is a complete multimedia play with its own idea and concept. Before the concert, Nikolai Popov will give a lecture on multimedia composition.

Nikolai Popov is a composer, teacher, researcher, member of the Union of Composers of Russia, a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, a researcher at the Center for Electro-Acoustic Music of the Moscow Conservatory, a teacher in the Department of History and Theory of Music of the Russian University of Theater Arts (GITIS). Nikolai Popov is the winner of all-Russian and international competitions, among which are: Open All-Russian competition of composers named after A. G. Schnittke (2007); International Composers Competition named after Vl. Zolotareva (USA, New York, 2008); II Open All-Russian Composers Competition named after D. D. Shostakovich (St. Petersburg, 2008); The international competition of composers named after A. Dvořák (Prague, Czech Republic, 2010) and others, the author of a number of chamber, symphonic, electro-acoustic and multimedia compositions, as well as theater and film music. His compositions were performed in cities of Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Norway, Portugal, the USA, Czech Republic, at the festivals “Moscow Autumn”, “Moscow Forum”, “Other Space”, “Shock Days of Mark Pekarsky”, “Exposition XXI ”,“ Opus 52 ”,“ Europe-Asia ”, the New Music Festival of the Milan Conservatory,“ Venice Biennale ”, the International Festival of Classical Ballet named after Rudolf Nureyev, the festival of electro-acoustic music“ EMUfest ”, etc.

Andrew Quinn is an Australian multimedia artist and musician based in Milan. He worked on special effects for films such as The Matrix, Tomb Raider, Ink Soul, Nirvana, and Wayont. Over the past few years, he has specialized in multi-screen video installations in large spaces, including planetariums, as well as computer graphics for interactive dance and music projects, including the Coine series (Milan, 2011), the musical part of the Venice Biennale (2012), and the new production of Castle Duke Bluebeard ”in Budapest in 2013. In 2013-14. Andrew Quinn curated a multimedia competition at the San Fedele Institute, Milan. In the spring of 2014, he took part in the project “Waiting. 1914 and a hundred years later ”, organized by the ensemble“ Studio of new music ”. In November-December 2014, he was one of the creators of the multimedia project of the Studio of New Music ensemble “The Faces of the North” (composers A. Nadzharov, N. Popov, A. Khubeev), which was successfully held in Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Tomsk.