Damian Marhulets: Playful Things
Monday, September 28th Damian Marhulets was born in Minsk in 1980. His musical education has been developing throughout playing oboe and piano towards composition and electroacoustic music, that he studied in Poland and Germany. Since 2000 he lives in Germany, actively taking part in development of the new musical scene in Hannover - the city from where he graduated as a composer. Damian Marhulets is a founder and participant of many musical projects spanning classical music and avant-garde to live-electronic improvisation. Among others, he established such groups as 'Sky Scribe', in which he’s been creating music derived from hard-core free-jazz improvisation’s tradition and 'dak~' [dak.tilde], which is meant to be a platform covering the overlapping border areas of electronic and electroacoustic music. 'dak ~' [dak.tilde] puts its special interest on creating particular form of improvisation with electronic instruments. Making use of vintage synthesizers extended with new digital instruments and computers 'dak ~' [dak.tilde] creates a musical context between old science-fiction sounds and new digital music. As a composer, Damian Marhulets owns numerous accoustic pieces. The main idea they are based on is sound semantic and new ways of expression emerged as a result of audio-information reduction. Through exploration of wide spectrum of possibilities provided by digital media, Damian Marhulets creates and performs pieces for live-electronic as well. They spread from electro-acoustic composition to multimedia performance, from laptop improvisation to audio-visual installation. Among others, Damian Marhulets performed at front of the Tatsuo Miyajima installation, improvised for an exhibition of German photographer Wolfgang Tillman and was a frequent guest of the "long night of museums" event in Hannover and Berlin, Germany. In collaboration with the Sprengel Museum Hannover Damian established its own elecronic festival 'music for rooms'. The main point of this festival is a connection between contemporary art and modern electronic music. He also actively collaborated with filmmakers creating experimental movies and short clips, what entailed over 10 soundtracks, mainly for works created by a young German director Finn Ole-Heinrich. Damian Marhulets performed at such festivals as Music21 contemporary music Festival in Germany, ZKM Festival in Karlsruhe, Re:New digital art Festival in Copehagen, Contemporary Music Fesival in Witten, Germany and others. His multimedia works were presented at such places as the Sprengel Museum Hannover, Kestnergesellschaft Gallery, RobertDrees Gallery, ArtCenter Berlin, Philharmonic Hall Essen (Germany) and others. His music has been broadcasted by NDR Radio Hannover, Deutschland Radio and WDR Radio.
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