Novoe Tsarstvo

This happened a month ago, but for some reason i decided to write about it only now.

In the beginning of February me and Mitya participated in a live show of an improvisation collective led by Ivan of Full of Nothing. The collective is called Novoe Tsarstvo, there's no permanent line up, and this time we got to join it. And it happened to be the collective's first live performance.

It was a great experience for me, because i've never improvised on stage with people i haven't played with before. We also had a recording session with almost the same people (the saxophone player was different). I really enjoyed both of the sessions. Especially playing together with a saxophone was interesting. Even though the technique is completely different from a violin, it felt so easy to follow what they play, much easier than trying to follow guitars or synths.

Installation for a poetry evening

Last Friday we took part in a poetry evening by exhibiting an installation. We did the installation together with a group of photographers called PMAM as well as a group of poets. We did the music for the installation as Banana Pill and i also took part in video editing.

I made a video preview of the loop for you to check out:

We made two videos like this and originally they were supposed to be projected on two sides of a white cube-shaped box with a sound coming from inside the box (two loop-stations connected to a small combo were placed inside the box). The box was placed in a dark room, next to the room where poets were reading their poems to visitors. Unfortunately, we had problems with projectors, so we had to keep only one video on one side of the box. It looked good anyway, but i didn't manage to take a good video of the whole installation.

Hopefully we get to do more things with those people. I really like when artists from different genres work together and i enjoy the results.