Yuri Akbalkan
BIOGRAPHY
Yuri Akbalkan (*1986) works in the fields of composition, improvisation and multimedia. In his own practice he explores an aspect of the interaction between digital, analog and acoustic sound sources, integration of sounding objects into the public space in the context of urbanization and nonverbal communications.
He has studied composition at the Rimski-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory with prof. Sergei Slonimsky (RU), and in the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with prof. Markus Hechtle (DE). He is participant of the Electroacoustic Music Lab ESG-21, lecturer and co-curator of the Course In Experimental Music Practice, collaborates with the Saint Petersburg Contemporary Music Center reMusik.org. Currently he lives in Hamburg, Germany, and studies Multimedia Composition in the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.
Artist in residence in the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe in the frame of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for New Music, Contemporary Dance, Theater and New Media (project of the Goethe-Institut). Participant of the new music festivals reMusik.org, Sound Ways, Fin de siècle, Exposition XXI, Opus 52, the Pythian Games composers’ competition.
Works performed by ensemble recherche, noname-ensemble, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME), MolOt-ensemble, the Gallery of Actual Music Ensemble (GAM-Ensemble), eNsemble Pro Arte, Mariinsky New Music Ensemble, {instead} ensemble.
EVENTS
SELECTED WORKS
Realization 1: orchestra and Euler’s tables. From the Euler’s Book (2014)
for orchestra and piano located both at different acoustically separated spaces: hall / lobby hall / another hall; or two different stations in case of radio broadcasting
÷ ⁴ (2018)
for linear and non-linear sound signals
Realization 4c: ensemble and noise according to the table No. 1 (2017)
for clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, white noise generator and piano
From the Euler’s Book
÷ ³ (2017)
for chronometer, group of musicians and video
÷ ² (2017)
for chronometer and improvisers
Realization 4b: clarinet, viola and noise according to the table No. 1 (2016)
for clarinet, viola, white noise generator and piano
From the Euler’s Book
0.1. lzrs (2016)
for three performers
Rose (2015)
for two performers
Realization 4a: instruments and noise according to the table No. 1 (2014)
for two instruments, white noise generator and piano
From the Euler’s Book
Realization 4: clarinet, cello and noise according to the table No. 1 (2014)
for clarinet, cello, white noise generator and piano
From the Euler’s Book
5.1.1. (2014)
for seven sine waves
0.1. (2013)
for three performers
3:1 (2012)
for flute, clarinet, viola and piano
[versions]:
flute, clarinet, violin, piano
flute, clarinet, violin/viola, accordion
saxophone, violin, piano
another place (2012)
for two performers
[ki] (2012)
for voice, trombone, percussion and double bass
[s] (2010)
for five voices
÷ (2017)
for chronometer
Bass lines (2015)
for bass string instrument
Realization 3: extract bass from table No. 1a (2014)
for bass instrument
From the Euler’s Book
Realization 2a: froth on the table No. 1 (2014)
for piano
From the Euler’s Book
Realization 1a: sine wave and table No. 1 (2014)
for sine wave and piano
From the Euler’s Book
Music for dice (2012)
for performer
Pterodactyl’s nest (2009)
for solo recorder
ПУСТ* (2017)
interdisciplinary project: light, dance, sound, finding/created objects and documents
ПУСТ* (2016/2017) interdisciplinary project in collaboration with Alexandra Portyannikova, Sergey Shabohin, Snezhana Vinogradova, Nikita Golyshev, Daria Plohova, Sergey Kostyrko, Karlsruhe (DE) / St. Petersburg (RU)
Пространство 1 → 3 (2015) sound performance with Andrey Popovsky, Denis Sorokin and Boris Shershenkov, St. Petersburg (RU)
НА10МД (for ten minutes longer) (2015) sound performance, with Andrey Popovsky, Denis Sorokin and Boris Shershenkov, St. Petersburg (RU)
freesounddotorg-music (2015)
The Internet based project
Imitatione del medesimo uccello (2011)
transcription of the last movement of the Rossignolo by Alessandro Poglietti (1677)
for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and harpsichord
![Sphaera Octava plays [s] by Yuri Akbalkan](http://en.remusik.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Yuri-Akbalkan-s-12.06.2012.jpg "Sphaera Octava plays [s] by Yuri Akbalkan")
![[ki] by Yuri Akbalkan](http://en.remusik.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Yuri-Akbalkan-ki-21.03.2013.jpg "[ki] by Yuri Akbalkan")