The fourth conference of the Center for Electroacoustic Music, titled "Archiving the Present 2.0", continues a research project dedicated to the history of electroacoustics and art&science projects, inventions of musical instruments, art objects, and devices. The conference program will be focused on an exhibition of rare items from archival collections, including musical instruments, documents, video and audio recordings. All events will take place at the Artemiev Art Space of the Moscow Conservatory.
Participants may attend the conference both online and in person. Participation is free, there is no registration fee. A personal invitation to the conference is available by request. The official languages of the conference are Russian and English. Participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation. Presentation duration: 30 minutes. Application deadline: October 17, 2025
approximate topics
The research of archival collections of musical and sound art
The history of centers, laboratories, studios and festivals dealing with electroacoustics
An analysis of any electroacoustic and multimedia works
The research and reconstruction of musical instruments and art objects
The history of communities, their creators and participants
An analysis of Soviet research in acoustics, electronics, synthetic and related arts
The evolution of technological processes for creating music
The history of sound recording and sound engineering
An adaptation of historical works to modern equipment and new concert and stage conditions
The reviews of books and research papers
Software development
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The talk/presentation will focus on musical hybridity and critical methods developed for the hybridization of electroacoustic and metal music (a part of the presenter's Ph.D. research). These methods are formed to build a blueprint for hybrid composers (ultimately not only specific to metal and electroacoustic but for other genres as well that combines spectromorphological focused music with harmony and rhythm-based music since this type of hybridity requires a unique set of challenges and complexities). Hybridity in music is a well-established and vibrant contemporary scholarly topic. Even though the current literature provides many useful terms and strategies regarding different types of hybrids, the methods for building hybrids are rare. The talk will specifically focus on the piece 'Zen of Aggression' and discuss the fruitful and problematic methods when approaching to compose a transformational hybrid (a hybrid where both genres affect each other at the deepest level in which the resulting hybrid would not sound like each of the genre-hence transformed) between electroacoustic music and metal. Different excerpts from the piece will be played when discussing the techniques and methodologies. The talk shall also briefly discuss different types of hybridity (transformational hybrid, eclecticism, polystylism, and so on), genre and its notions (their problems, their significance, and their contemporary uses), and the notion of fluidity when approaching the hybridity in music to set the context. As technology increases at a rapid rate and postmodern conditions only grow stronger as lines get blurry, hybridity has been more than a prominent musical power to embrace this current condition and reflect through what is considered music and art in the 21st century (and challenge the notions of high art and low art).
venue
The ‘Artemiev’ art space
13 Bolshaya Nikitskaya st., Moscow
Entrance to the art space from Bolshaya Nikitskaya street, brown doors between the Small and Rachmaninov halls, ground floor