The sound compositions by AROTIN & SERGHEI combine sound particles of analog instruments, voices and musical fragments with a surrounding electronic resonance space, that opens up into infinity. Elements of collective memory, sounds of nature, extraterrestrial scientific recordings from astrophysical platforms, fragments of human voices and electronically generated sound spectra appear, disappear and return transformed in a “dream-like oneiric space of free thought” – as Karine Tissot described the artists’ installation at the Fondation Beyeler in her article for Art Passion.
In the words of Ivan Fedele, the director of the Festival of Contemporar Music part of the Venice Biennale: AROTIN studied composition, music theory, electronic music, theatre, film and new image techniques. SERGHEI is philosopher and studied the etymology of languages.
AROTIN & SERGHEI bring the fundamental humanistic idea of the Renaissance, the expansion of space and thought, into our time ... The vanishing point becomes a place at which the screen opens up. The wall crumbles through the illusion of infinity.
AROTIN & SERGHEI’s immersive sound art creations (selection):
- Infinite Screen – Apokatastasis 14 channel, live generated composition infinite
and Gallery Version 50 min Loop
UA: Kraftwerk Berlin 2023
AROTIN & SERGHEI Apokatastasis _ Kraftwerk Berlin 2023 (extract)
- Infinite Screen / Impressions – Dialogue avec Monet, 2ch,
25 min. loop and live generated version.
UA: collégial Church Notre Dame de Vernon Festival des Arts de Vernon Giverny 2019
Gallery Version: Espace Muraille Geneva
- Gateway to Elysium, 2 ch Sound
live generated installation and version l18 min loop 2018
AROTIN & SERGHEI Gateways to Eysium _ Palais Rasumofsky Vienna / Vienna Cointemporary 2018 (extract)
- Métamorphosis 2018, 2ch 16 min loop
UA Gallery W&K – Palais Schönborn Batthyany Vienna 2018
- Prélude for Scriabin’s Prometheus, 2ch 16 min loop
UA Fondation Beyeler 2016
AROTIN & SERGHEI Electronic Prelude for Scriabin’s Prometheus _ Fondation Beyeler 2016 (extract)
- Infinite Screen / The Babel Tower, 2ch 72 min loop
UA Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien 2016
- Vers la flamme , the Alchemists of our Time
5 preludes for Scriabins last preludes 2016
UA Ars Electronica Post City Train Hall 2016
- White Point, 2ch. 4 min lopp (2015)
UA: ARS ELECTRONICA Deep Space Media Collection 2015
- Faces of an Infinite Screen Exampaeos 2015
live generated installation and gallery version 9 min loop
UA: Palazzo Benzon Venice/ Gujral Foundation / Fondatione Mazzotta / La Biennale di Venezia 2015
AROTIN & SERGHEI Faces / Exampaeos _ Palazzo Benzon Venice / Gujral Foundation India / La Biennale di Venezia 2015 (extract)
- Infinite Screen / Alles was wir sehen könnte auch anders sein, 2ch. 18 min loop (2014)
UA: Ars Electronica, Brucknerhaus Linz 2014
Vienna Version: Heidi Horten Collection Wien
AROTIN & SERGHEI Everything We See Could Also Be Otherwise , Fondation Beyeler 2016 extract)
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