Independent electronic music of Crimea in the early 00s and sound art in Russia: history and now
Guest lecture by Sergey Kasich (RU/UA) organized by Franz Pomassl (Soundstudio) Institute of Fine Arts. In association with IKT.
Plus presentation of personal works.
Sergey Kasich was born in city of Sevastopol (Crimea). He graduated (with honors) in 2006 from Lomonosov's MSU (Moscow) as psychologist. In 2007-2010 he was doing postgraduate studies in behavioral genetics and psychodiagnostics. He was attending the studio Theremin Center for Electroacoustic Music in Tchaikovsky's Moscow State Conservatory from 2005 till it's formal closing in 2010. There he co-founded LoveLiveElectronic community ( LoLieL.tk ) for DiY & hacking approaches in electronic music and live performance in 2008. Which later in 2011 he reformed into the SoundArtist.ru ( SA)) ) - the community for experimental sound and technological arts. He curates and produces events and projects supported by residents of SA)), including annual festivals, monthly showcases and more . Since 2008 he creates interactive and generative sound and multimedia art installations and pieces alone and in various collaborations, providing interaction design, sound and visual design, creative coding, development, engeneering and consulting. As well he works as composer and sound-producer for theaters, performances and in other spheres, including pop-music projects.
Sergey is the founder and curator of Moscow Sound Art Gallery SA))_gallery and Moscow Sound Art Studio SA))_studio . Since 2011 he teaches the credited course "Technical basics of interactive arts" in Rodchenko's Art School in Moscow together with his SA))-collegues.
In 2014 his works has been presented at MusicMakers Hacklab of CTM\Transmediale 2014, Sound Around Kaliningrad 2014, Archstoyaniye 2014, 404 Festival "Human vs User" and others.
In 2015 Sergey was а part of international Jury of Prix Ars Electronica section of Digital Musics and Sound Arts.