CEAM Artists

A PLATFORM FOR PERFORMERS OF ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC

CEAM Artists is a platform that brings together the performers and engineers of the Centre for Electroacoustic Music. We work with composers and media artists on projects that combine different art forms.

One of the platform’s main ideas is to give young performers a place to learn to work with electronics and other media under the guidance of musicians experienced in this field. CEAM Artists often perform works involving technologically complex devices, including motion sensors, virtual reality headsets and electronic instruments. Working alongside engineers, young musicians can master microphones, devices and custom-built instruments.

At CEAM Artists performances, musicians interact with electronics and a click track, as well as with various sound objects. They perform multimedia and performative works. CEAM Artists concerts use a single unified setup, and between pieces a specially scripted “voice assistant” introduces the composers and their works.

CEAM Artists have performed at contemporary music festivals and venues in Moscow and other cities:

• Biomechanics festival (Moscow)
• New Classics festival on the experimental stage of Zaryadye Park
• reMusik.org festival (St. Petersburg)
• summer festival at the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre
• concerts on the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg)
• State Centre for Contemporary Art (Nizhny Novgorod)
• Zaryadye Small Hall
• GROUND Solyanka

In the 2023–2024 season, CEAM Artists and the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble toured 10 Russian cities with the joint project Energized! (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Samara, Saratov, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Perm, Tchaikovsky, Nizhny Novgorod).

CEAM Artists perform the latest contemporary works built on the interplay of instruments, electronics, video, gesture and the performers’ movement. Many of the pieces are written specially for the ensemble’s musicians and in collaboration with them.

CEAM Artists gave the Russian premieres of works by leading European composers, including Michael Beil, Yannis Kyriakides, Brigitta Muntendorf, Panayiotis Kokoras, Alexander Schubert and Sarah Nemtsov. The ensemble also works closely with young composers and media artists.

Separate strands of the platform are devoted to creative and educational projects for young musicians, including:

— CEAM Percussion, presenting the widest range of percussion instruments (core members: Evsevy Zubkov and Philipp Fitin)

— CEAM Voices, where we work with solo singers, vocal ensembles and chamber choirs

The CEAM Artists repertoire includes works by Russian and international composers working with electronics and media. Over the years, CEAM Artists soloists have given a number of Russian and world premieres of works by leading Russian and international composers.

CEAM Artists

A PLATFORM FOR PERFORMERS OF ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC

CEAM Artists is a platform that brings together the performers and engineers of the Centre for Electroacoustic Music. We work with composers and media artists on projects that combine different art forms.

One of the platform’s main ideas is to give young performers a place to learn to work with electronics and other media under the guidance of musicians experienced in this field. CEAM Artists often perform works involving technologically complex devices, including motion sensors, virtual reality headsets and electronic instruments. Working alongside engineers, young musicians can master microphones, devices and custom-built instruments.

At CEAM Artists performances, musicians interact with electronics and a click track, as well as with various sound objects. They perform multimedia and performative works. CEAM Artists concerts use a single unified setup, and between pieces a specially scripted “voice assistant” introduces the composers and their works.

CEAM Artists have performed at contemporary music festivals and venues in Moscow and other cities:

• Biomechanics festival (Moscow)
• New Classics festival on the experimental stage of Zaryadye Park
• reMusik.org festival (St. Petersburg)
• summer festival at the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre
• concerts on the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg)
• State Centre for Contemporary Art (Nizhny Novgorod)
• Zaryadye Small Hall
• GROUND Solyanka

In the 2023–2024 season, CEAM Artists and the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble toured 10 Russian cities with the joint project Energized! (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Samara, Saratov, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Perm, Tchaikovsky, Nizhny Novgorod).

CEAM Artists perform the latest contemporary works built on the interplay of instruments, electronics, video, gesture and the performers’ movement. Many of the pieces are written specially for the ensemble’s musicians and in collaboration with them.

CEAM Artists gave the Russian premieres of works by leading European composers, including Michael Beil, Yannis Kyriakides, Brigitta Muntendorf, Panayiotis Kokoras, Alexander Schubert and Sarah Nemtsov. The ensemble also works closely with young composers and media artists.

Separate strands of the platform are devoted to creative and educational projects for young musicians, including:

— CEAM Percussion, presenting the widest range of percussion instruments (core members: Evsevy Zubkov and Philipp Fitin)

— CEAM Voices, where we work with solo singers, vocal ensembles and chamber choirs

The CEAM Artists repertoire includes works by Russian and international composers working with electronics and media. Over the years, CEAM Artists soloists have given a number of Russian and world premieres of works by leading Russian and international composers.