(Catalogue no. 12528)
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| Title: |
Before The Evroremont |
| Artist: |
Alexei Borisov |
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Label: |
N&B Research Digest |
| Format: |
CD |
| Price: |
€ 12.50 |
Mp3 samples: 1
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Title Description:
"Before the Evroremont" is an audiovisual meditation on the processes taking place in everyday life and psychology in Russia. The CD was recorded live at Avanto Helsinki Media Art Festival in November 2001. This is how Alexei Borisov describes the project:
"Moscow has always been a site of unique historical, cultural and psycho-linguistic synthesis. Because of its geographical situation, its outward look has come to bear traits of traditional Slavic architectural elements mixed with Oriental and West European ones. Combined with Soviet constructivism and post-Soviet post-contructivism they reinforce the feelings of surrealistic chaos and psychedelic eclecticism so familiar to those who have spent time in Moscow.
In the 1990Õs the traditional Moscow style began to disperse - this was noticeable both in the way the city looks like and in the minds of its inhabitants. The change has been especially quick in private homes, which are undergoing complete transformation. Most muscovites throw
out all their old furniture - or aspire to - and replace it with new 'European design', an imaginary 'typical European' and more rational style of interior decor. This process has been named 'Evroremont' (literally 'Euro-repairs' or 'Euro-renovation'). You can see the word everywhere in Moscow: from signs on lamp-posts ('IÕll do your evroremont for $20 a day') to huge billboards advertising design fairs ('Evroremont 2002'). Both the live concert and the live cd are complemented by the photos of Anne HŠmŠlŠinen, a Finnish photographer, who has for the past three years documented MoscowÕs homes, interiors of public places and the vanishing Soviet-era aesthetics of suburbs and back yards. The music of 'Before the Evroremont' is a combination of environmental sound (private phone conversations, noise of repairs, radio playing in another
room, conversations over the kitchen table, poetry reading etc.), invented language (gibberish) and an assortment of various sound technologies: computer sound design, analogue synthesis, electric guitar and Soviet low tech and home-made electronics."
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