Sasha Elina https://sashaelina.com Sasha Elina Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:52:39 +0000 https://sashaelina.com en ABOUT https://sashaelina.com/ABOUT Sun, 10 Feb 2019 12:58:26 +0000 Sasha Elina https://sashaelina.com/ABOUT I am a curator and musician working across contemporary classical and experimental music, sound and interdisciplinary practices. In my curatorial work I strive to create conditions for artistic autonomy, this in the framework of close collaboration. My recent projects and research focus on the ways in which sound is embedded into different physical and social spaces. BIOSasha Elina (pronounced Yélina) (b. 1994) is a curator, cultural producer and musician based in London. Sasha is the artistic director of the Eternal series in London, showcasing and commissioning contemporary music from local and international artists across musical genres. Since November 2024, Sasha has been working at Brent Music Academy as the programme manager. In 2018, she co-founded Music Space Architecture, a platform and festival dedicated to different areas of interaction between music and architecture, sound and space. Until 2021, Sasha lived and worked in Moscow, where she devised and produced concert series and interdisciplinary projects at institutions including the New Tretyakov Gallery, the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, as well as in independent spaces. A vocalist and a flautist, Sasha performs composed and improvised music both solo and in various collectives. In March 2024, she self-released her debut album "Different Songs. Vol 1", featuring pieces by Seamus Cater, Tomás Cabado, Eva-Maria Houben, and Johan Lindvall. Sasha was the founding member of The Same Ensemble (2013-2023), performed with the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME), the Moscow Scratch Orchestra, Splitter Orchester, ГШ (Glintshake), and others. Sasha was selected as a fellow of OneBeat 2019, a U.S. State Department Programme produced by Bang on a Can’s Found Sound Nation. Sasha received her Music BA in Flute at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (2017), and Music MA by Research at the University of Huddersfield (2023), with the thesis titled “Music curation as a site-oriented practice. Approaches to creating and staging listening experiences”. CV <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/390c27ec9e9565a97a476129fb142da561c3719c242b98fa4dca1f2fa4ebbe93/DSCF7392--.jpeg" data-mid="243730263" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/390c27ec9e9565a97a476129fb142da561c3719c242b98fa4dca1f2fa4ebbe93/DSCF7392--.jpeg" /> <img width="4368" height="2912" width_o="4368" height_o="2912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca74d636aeb9d5f4d409a00f0070489f9e10a38fd37ff48a059af40c7a45bb99/IMG_1047.JPG" data-mid="156229347" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca74d636aeb9d5f4d409a00f0070489f9e10a38fd37ff48a059af40c7a45bb99/IMG_1047.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29a9fec9a5c1204e35e085c273eaa404f0d2ee8b864e7b077744343b6c11fc62/IMG_9345.JPG" data-mid="156229809" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29a9fec9a5c1204e35e085c273eaa404f0d2ee8b864e7b077744343b6c11fc62/IMG_9345.JPG" /> ETERNAL SERIES https://sashaelina.com/ETERNAL-SERIES Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:52:39 +0000 Sasha Elina https://sashaelina.com/ETERNAL-SERIES ETERNAL SERIESCurated by Sasha Elina, the Eternal series of music events and multi-disciplinary situations is a London-based project (established in 2024) that aims to present and support diverse perspectives, communities, and artistic provocations. It welcomes the audience to join a movement that accommodates both emerging and established artists, bridging the classical and the novel. Music, theatre, dance, moving image, sound art, poetry and their crossovers enter the Eternal series, with no limits or genre restrictions. "This series gives hope to the future of London’s music scene." – I CARE IF YOU LISTEN <img width="2160" height="1080" width_o="2160" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99cb53360dbcc00149ff4c94d41266ea299e4abe7a09d92119bfd6256eff0325/ETERNAL-MAY-horiz.png" data-mid="233193686" border="0" alt="Design by: Sasha Elina" data-caption="Design by: Sasha Elina" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/99cb53360dbcc00149ff4c94d41266ea299e4abe7a09d92119bfd6256eff0325/ETERNAL-MAY-horiz.png" /> <img width="2160" height="1080" width_o="2160" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d30032abaae609bb2d8ce8077e67d1ab86d3c6f93c7d7624a5ce775478dcdb7f/ETERNAL-july-eb.png" data-mid="233194048" border="0" alt="Design by: Sasha Elina" data-caption="Design by: Sasha Elina" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d30032abaae609bb2d8ce8077e67d1ab86d3c6f93c7d7624a5ce775478dcdb7f/ETERNAL-july-eb.png" /> <img width="2160" height="1080" width_o="2160" 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width="2305" height="1537" width_o="2305" height_o="1537" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd4410ebafa658e75775fd3f67a38d849fe1aa9044239a2a5df0dfaab524412e/DSCF9379.JPG" data-mid="240982189" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd4410ebafa658e75775fd3f67a38d849fe1aa9044239a2a5df0dfaab524412e/DSCF9379.JPG" /> PAST EVENTS Eternal May Idrîsî Ensemble 10th May 2024, St Giles Cripplegate, Barbican, London Eternal July Neil Luck, Catherine Lamb, Alvin Lucier 11th July 2024, St Giles Cripplegate, Barbican, London Eternal September Apartment House 27th September 2024, St Giles Cripplegate, Barbican, London Eternal December Container by Alan Fielden, Henry Cyer 6th December 2024, St Giles Cripplegate, Barbican, London Eternal February Delphine Dora (FR) 8th February 2025, St Giles Cripplegate, Barbican, London Eternal May Henry Prince, Tarek Elazhary, Maddie Ashman, Daniel Padgett 30th May 2025, The Swiss Church, London Eternal July Marijn Cinjee and Julia Sinclair, House on the Strand 5th July 2025, Grand Junction, London Eternal November Edward Henderson, Rhodri Davies, Eva-Maria Houben 15th November 2025, The Swiss Church, London Eternal December MUON (Miles Lukoszevieze and Travis Yu): Anatomy of Breath, Pt. 1 14th December 2025, Chisenhale Dance Space, London Eternal March Tim Cape + Mayah Kadish, Ecka Mordecai 11th March 2026, The Swiss Church, London STORY “Eternal series was originally created in 2014 in Moscow — a city I was born and raised in. The first “Eternal May” title came about to accompany a single event, this name being co-created with composer Vladimir Rannev, whose piece was in the programme along with other living Russian composers. We sat in a cafe trying to describe the feeling that the concert programme should provoke: tender, pensive, sad… Eternal. The Moscow edition existed for about a year, hosted at the Central House of Architects on Granatny Lane, in its large exhibition hall.” <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b0c9629b6fce19ecf68ae90aad51b4be8c336f5969132c1af81ec8d48f1ca68/1655562_826055314120243_3277616441934121605_o.jpg" data-mid="234041082" border="0" alt="Image credit: Dmitriy Matison" data-caption="Image credit: Dmitriy Matison" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b0c9629b6fce19ecf68ae90aad51b4be8c336f5969132c1af81ec8d48f1ca68/1655562_826055314120243_3277616441934121605_o.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a45ff4ba0acebf21f7f8dd4c40b89f2609a67ed30fbb13c73d2d8223bc27eef8/10960175_826055300786911_6891849082961340235_o.jpg" data-mid="234041084" border="0" alt="Image credit: Dmitriy Matison" data-caption="Image credit: Dmitriy Matison" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a45ff4ba0acebf21f7f8dd4c40b89f2609a67ed30fbb13c73d2d8223bc27eef8/10960175_826055300786911_6891849082961340235_o.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2af6ad59d58cd17a3cad877a32625b0d0b1f0b43655482486e65778d8abeedd/10284753_826055317453576_3845285008660421695_o.jpg" data-mid="234041083" border="0" alt="Image credit: Dmitriy Matison" data-caption="Image credit: Dmitriy Matison" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2af6ad59d58cd17a3cad877a32625b0d0b1f0b43655482486e65778d8abeedd/10284753_826055317453576_3845285008660421695_o.jpg" /> <img width="1448" height="2048" width_o="1448" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e9f22c581308fb106c4d9054c27095eb0ca5b87c6b1ee834c6c215a8b7cc92d/1900597_871708059508301_857326816038793117_o.jpg" data-mid="234041154" border="0" alt="Design by: Violetta Postnova" data-caption="Design by: Violetta Postnova" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e9f22c581308fb106c4d9054c27095eb0ca5b87c6b1ee834c6c215a8b7cc92d/1900597_871708059508301_857326816038793117_o.jpg" /> <img width="3508" height="4817" width_o="3508" height_o="4817" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6b383b5c6a6e0bcec9394aa4579afeee665045174dd3b801699931e45521c29/POSTER-web.jpg" data-mid="234041157" border="0" alt="Design by: Violetta Postnova" data-caption="Design by: Violetta Postnova" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a6b383b5c6a6e0bcec9394aa4579afeee665045174dd3b801699931e45521c29/POSTER-web.jpg" /> <img width="1448" height="2048" width_o="1448" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/93de7af07dcdd82e71ff6df0ac73d900aacd37aeefac894225f0e9b53e8ec252/10864057_894075890604851_1567931436726796524_o.jpg" data-mid="234041156" border="0" alt="Design by: Violetta Postnova" data-caption="Design by: Violetta Postnova" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/93de7af07dcdd82e71ff6df0ac73d900aacd37aeefac894225f0e9b53e8ec252/10864057_894075890604851_1567931436726796524_o.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="3535" width_o="5000" height_o="3535" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d30e1f9eb2e92e20ac4b95dae674b89a5b25c94335403bb36cc4af38c902b70/FEB_poster.jpg" data-mid="234041159" border="0" alt="Design by: Violetta Postnova" data-caption="Design by: Violetta Postnova" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d30e1f9eb2e92e20ac4b95dae674b89a5b25c94335403bb36cc4af38c902b70/FEB_poster.jpg" /> <img width="3508" height="4961" width_o="3508" height_o="4961" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14989f18f0ee506d835c66845a7cf24768095f03e395d9b1a83c6be073401840/16_t.jpg" data-mid="234041158" border="0" alt="Design by: Violetta Postnova" data-caption="Design by: Violetta Postnova" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14989f18f0ee506d835c66845a7cf24768095f03e395d9b1a83c6be073401840/16_t.jpg" /> <img width="1448" height="2048" width_o="1448" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60f3a4fd395dc37b1352d57ef8e486069aa0fd11395703cb0d126d4d2afd5aef/10012889_773202142692227_4582441943462073480_o.jpg" data-mid="234041155" border="0" alt="Design by: Violetta Postnova" data-caption="Design by: Violetta Postnova" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/60f3a4fd395dc37b1352d57ef8e486069aa0fd11395703cb0d126d4d2afd5aef/10012889_773202142692227_4582441943462073480_o.jpg" /> INSTAGRAM, LINKTREE MUSIC SPACE ARCHITECTURE https://sashaelina.com/MUSIC-SPACE-ARCHITECTURE Sun, 10 Feb 2019 12:58:26 +0000 Sasha Elina https://sashaelina.com/MUSIC-SPACE-ARCHITECTURE MUSIC SPACE ARCHITECTURE&nbsp;Music Space Architecture is an international, multilayered project dedicated to identifying and investigating different areas of interaction between music and architecture, sound and space. The principal aim is to nurture a balance between research practices, and, more broadly, events in the fields of contemporary art. Music Space Architecture curates commissioned projects and events, a festival, a conference, and an online platform that publishes text and other materials intended to deepen the study of each of the edition’s focal subjects. The project was founded in 2018 by Sasha Elina and Yuri Palmin. EVENTS AND PROJECTS: Hazy Horizons_Organ installation and performance I Music Space Architecture_Festival_2018 <img width="2048" height="900" width_o="2048" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6abbbc523003b429ac880de70d654eb42e6fac7b1831a770f9b36bc9c2e338cc/MSA-1-2.png" data-mid="151468619" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6abbbc523003b429ac880de70d654eb42e6fac7b1831a770f9b36bc9c2e338cc/MSA-1-2.png" /> WEBSITE, FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, TWITTER CELLAR DOOR https://sashaelina.com/CELLAR-DOOR Sun, 06 Sep 2020 14:01:16 +0000 Sasha Elina https://sashaelina.com/CELLAR-DOOR CELLAR DOOR A series of music situations. CELLAR DOOR events take place in open public spaces and peculiar venues, locating and closely connecting musical materials with their surrounding environment. ‘Cellar door’ is widely cited as one of the most beautiful combinations of words in the English language, purely in terms of its sound, regardless of its trivial meaning. The CELLAR DOOR series refers to this mystery, asking us to think of sound perhaps in a similar way. To consider how music situations flicker on the surfaces of ordinary urban and architectural structures, playing with the invisible grid of spaces they may occupy. Whether site-specific, or site-adjusted, the works presented in the series pose the question of how music communicates with its surroundings, how multiple elements of the event coexist in open public environments, and where pedestrians’ and audiences’ paths cross. In the spirit of the accidental and the unnoticed, housing both bold and subtle gestures, the place and site of each CELLAR DOOR is illuminated and transformed. Launched in May 2021. i. Bikes and Harmonicas by Daniil Pilchen. For six cycling musicians. 29th May, 2021 Location: Kensington Gardens, London, U.K. Participants: Roxanna Albayati, Stuart Beard, Daniel Ehrlich, Marat Ingeldeev, Alex Nikiporenko, James Oldham. Event supported by Untitled Foundation. ii. The way out of somewhere (nowhere is also anywhere) by Kirill Shirokov.For three electric guitars. TBA, 2022 Location: TBA MSA 2018 https://sashaelina.com/MSA-2018 Thu, 06 May 2021 14:45:02 +0000 Sasha Elina https://sashaelina.com/MSA-2018 MSA_F 2018&nbsp; I Music Space Architecture Festival Dates: December 1–9, 2018 Location: ZIL Cultural Center, Moscow, Russia Partners: Moscow Architecture School MARCH, ZIL Cultural Center Curators: Sasha Elina, Yuri Palmin Coordinator: Olga Rubtsova Conference moderator: Aleksander Ostrogorsky i. SPATIAL COMPOSITION #3.X "Spatial Сomposition #3.X" is a musical performance created by the composer Vladimir Gorlinsky. It is written for two improvising ensembles – 7 soloists and 10 performers – in a form of a text score that defines the overall composition, and sets the sound fields and trajectories for the participants. Their movements, the sounds they produce and their interactions in space exist in an unusual play that gives different musical and sensual results. The performance took place inside the halls and corridors, outside and even on top of the building. Composer: Vladimir Gorlinsky Instruments: megaphones, electronics, voice, string instruments, noise objects, accordion, flute, saw. Duration: 110 minutes ii. GOST 111-35 A site-specific sound installation, the core idea of which is to reimagine and reveal the sonic memory of the glass. The title of the installation refers to the official Russian State Standard number of clear sheet glass — “GOST 111-35”. Along with concrete and steel, this material was very popular in the Soviet Union in the 1930’s when one of the many prominent constructivist buildings of The Vesnin brothers’ Likhachev Palace of Culture (ZIL) was designed. The signal, sent to the glass sheets through speakers to vibrate, is a 17-minute soundtrack travelling from one piece of glass to another with a delay, keeping an almost living constant music cycle throughout the course of the works presentation. It is composed of highly obscured sounds taken from film scenes of the Moscow urban environment, along with Soviet and Russian songs of different years — all of these blending with more abstract noise material that shapes the piece. Doubling the windows, the six repeated constructions of metal frames and glass sheets create an additional architectural layer — a visual, poetic simulation as a canvas for representing the core idea. The chattering sound of the six glass sheets blended with surrounding noises, the transparent constructions subtly expanded the architecture of the atrium. GOST 111-35 seemed to be naturally embedded within the space, inviting the audience to discover and engage with it live. Thus, the setting of the installation presented an ambient piece of art that is neither exposed, nor is it utterly invisible. Artists: Anton Kuryshev, Andrey Guryanov Duration: 24/7 iii. LARGO MA NON TANTO "Largo ma non tanto" is a short film by Alexandra Karelina about a journey across an unfamiliar space, where architecture and music – static and moving – meet. The film was commissioned by Music Space Architecture and was first shown at the ZIL Cultural Center. A group of artists was invited to think about how both spatial and sonic experiences could be traced, mixed and subsequently represented in the frame of the film screen. The video was shot in Japan by the film’s director, Alexandra Karelina. The music was created collaboratively by the composer and improvisor Darya Zvezdina, and electronic/noise musician Alexey Borisov. The film is narrated in Italian, with fragments of the "Travel Diary of Luigi Pelli of Aranno from Saint Petersburg to Lugano in 1829", prepared by the architectural photographer Yuri Palmin. In an illusionary space of unexpected resonances, knitted together by unrelated elements, "Largo ma non tanto" foregrounds the unstable object of the viewer’s personal reflection. Directing, Camera, Edit: Alexandra Karelina Producer: Sasha Elina Music: Darya Zvezdina, Alexey Borisov Sound: Alexandra Karelina, Darya Zvezdina Text Editor: Yuri Palmin Voice: Filippo Valoti-Alebardi Sound Mastering: Alexandr Khokhlov Duration: 21 minutes Click here to watch the film and read the commentary by Sasha Elina (ENG, RUS). iV. YOUR BODY IS A COLONY The performance for solo body, stethoscope microphones, live feedback, infrasound and live electronics that explores the body as a receiver of sonic frequencies and as a resonant space. Composer: Cameron Graham (UK) Performer: Anastasia Tolchneva Duration: 120 minutes <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d7a756c3407a4c425e0ff0e83e771e1c1c2299047ee73594f3a9ce59609833e9/SPATIAL-COMPOSITION_2.jpg" data-mid="107639824" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d7a756c3407a4c425e0ff0e83e771e1c1c2299047ee73594f3a9ce59609833e9/SPATIAL-COMPOSITION_2.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca2171fbe74f05ad27794d0705a2dd6901d3e3d3c7815c99b7a69f7a5b64da6f/SPATIAL-COMPOSITION_1.jpg" data-mid="107639825" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca2171fbe74f05ad27794d0705a2dd6901d3e3d3c7815c99b7a69f7a5b64da6f/SPATIAL-COMPOSITION_1.jpg" /> FULL PROGRAMME: 1. "Spatial composition #3.Х" by Vladimir Gorlinsky. 2. "GOST 111-35" installation by Anton Kuryshev and Andrey Guryanov (throughout the festival). 3. Film screening of "Largo ma non tanto" by Aleksandra Karelina, with a music performance. 4. Lecture by Sergei Sitar "Music of the Spheres and the Semiosphere". 5. Lecture-dialogue by Yuri Palmin and Vladimir Gorlinsky "Inhuman Architecture". 6. Lecture by Anton Gorlenko "Roughly 19 billion seconds remain". 7. Lecture by Cameron Graham "The Sonic Body". 8. Conference with 10 presentations selected in the open-call. 9. "Your Body is a Colony" performance by Cameron Graham (UK). 10. Film screening of "Untitled" (1993) by Alexander Brodsky. FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, TWITTER MSA 2022 https://sashaelina.com/MSA-2022 Thu, 06 May 2021 16:07:42 +0000 Sasha Elina https://sashaelina.com/MSA-2022 MSA_F 202?&nbsp; II Music Space Architecture Festival is postponed until further notice and will no longer take place in Russia. As a Russian-born curator engaging with Russian and international art, I cannot continue my work as normal whilst the tragic events are unfolding in Ukraine. My responsibility now is to take things slowly, with respect to all the artists and audiences alike. The programme will undertake some changes and will be presented later. I hope to find this project in peaceful times again. Слава Україні! Dates: TBA Location: TBA Artistic director: Sasha Elina Curators: Sasha Elina, Yuri Palmin Film curator: Dmitry Frolov Graphic designer: Vasya Kondrashov FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE CONTACT RESULTS IN CONTAGION https://sashaelina.com/CONTACT-RESULTS-IN-CONTAGION Wed, 10 Apr 2019 14:51:24 +0000 Sasha Elina https://sashaelina.com/CONTACT-RESULTS-IN-CONTAGION CONTACT RESULTS IN CONTAGION "Contact Results in Contagion" is a music, living sculpture and installation project by British artist and composer&nbsp;Cameron Graham. Exploring the concept of ‘liminality’, the ritual of transition from one state to another, the exhibition revolves around the autonomously sounding musical object — the “Poet Mechanic” — a hybrid instrument borne out of extreme transformations of the classic vinyl player. A traditional medium becomes a strange almost living mechanical performer that interacts with numerous resonant objects placed around it. The installation, combining sound, sculpture and transformed space, takes the audience through a ritual process that addresses the relationship between the human and nonhuman, the mechanical and the poetic. Artist — Cameron Graham Curator — Sasha ElinaArchitect — Gleb Moskovkin Lighting designer — Elena Perelman Dates: March 30 – April 10, 2019Location: Ground&nbsp;Solyanka Gallery, Moscow Supported by: UK-Russia Year of Music 2019 Partners:&nbsp; British Embassy Moscow Arts &amp; Humanities Research Council <img width="4752" height="3168" width_o="4752" height_o="3168" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b442b388ca72e63b2d8be226405ce6c28387a7585fb91e9b6dcf1123c237baa7/1.jpg" data-mid="41397961" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b442b388ca72e63b2d8be226405ce6c28387a7585fb91e9b6dcf1123c237baa7/1.jpg" /> <img width="4752" height="3168" width_o="4752" height_o="3168" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae82fb36673973ba8b9c1d23d4568f1b050ce644eee6e25b488be56f7c142dd6/2.jpg" data-mid="41397962" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae82fb36673973ba8b9c1d23d4568f1b050ce644eee6e25b488be56f7c142dd6/2.jpg" /> <img 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width_o="750" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a249c8396a0d5c828cb52ff545fc2c2977f70ca5b26a69c715336a66676b0b6d/_YPL5602.jpg" data-mid="39796232" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/a249c8396a0d5c828cb52ff545fc2c2977f70ca5b26a69c715336a66676b0b6d/_YPL5602.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07000467c91acd491acf4ff14488ff2d3d24553eb9ba85e73f4a52500a73322f/CONTACT-NEW-9.jpg" data-mid="39796233" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/07000467c91acd491acf4ff14488ff2d3d24553eb9ba85e73f4a52500a73322f/CONTACT-NEW-9.jpg" /> CONNECTION https://sashaelina.com/CONNECTION Sun, 10 Feb 2019 12:58:27 +0000 Sasha Elina https://sashaelina.com/CONNECTION CONNECTION A spatially distributed group improvisation, in which the physical and sonic spatial components play a major role. It connects nine Moscow-based music practitioners from different generations and backgrounds, and situates them inside an abandoned building of the Institute of Philosophy (now a part of the Pushkin Museum). The musicians, performing separately in their own rooms and corners in the building, weave a highly complex sound environment in which no element is subordinate, but sonic and spatial impulses for interaction are strictly coordinated. For the audience, the focus of listening is constantly changing as they move through the piece in space, and as the performers’ decisions are being made within already running processes. Walking left along the corridor or down the stairs, the listeners form acoustic routes and explore distances between sounds they hear in different parts of the building. Curator: Sasha Elina Date: 16 December 2016 Location: Prince Golitsyn Family Estate (The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow) within the exhibition “House of Impressions. Wandering with a Troubadour” Duration: 90 minutes Performers: Anton Kolosov — bass guitar Anastasia Tolchneva — electronics, voice Daniil Pilchen — electronics, voice Alexey Sysoev — piano Sasha Serechenko — saxophone Andrey Guryanov — electronics Sasha Elina — voice, melodica Vasilisa Filatova — violin Sasha Skobeev — objects RASSADA https://sashaelina.com/RASSADA Sun, 10 Feb 2019 14:48:48 +0000 Sasha Elina https://sashaelina.com/RASSADA RASSADA An outdoor concert series in the Moscow city garden, as part of the parallel programme of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. “Rassada” in Russian translates as “seedling”. Seven events throughout the year, situated (”planted”) in different corners of the garden, each were comprised of composed and improvised music. The events welcomed the extreme weather conditions (snow, cold, rain), as a principle aim was to place the musicians as close to nature as possible. Curator — Sasha Elina Co-curator — Mitya Nesterov Supported by Triumph Gallery Dates: October 2015 — August 2016 Location: Moscow Botanic Garden “Aptekarsky Ogorod” <img width="1028" height="1024" width_o="1028" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f7c72f9c7de5abb91a3f6cc56e516edf1e91beffc57ebe920f9aba2d0e40783/RASSADA_6.jpg" data-mid="35053524" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f7c72f9c7de5abb91a3f6cc56e516edf1e91beffc57ebe920f9aba2d0e40783/RASSADA_6.jpg" /> <img width="1028" height="1024" width_o="1028" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7e90c39b347e281df7b3c51d06e9388168c5bcf759fb94860978c703745ac3b/RASSADA_7.jpg" data-mid="35053523" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a7e90c39b347e281df7b3c51d06e9388168c5bcf759fb94860978c703745ac3b/RASSADA_7.jpg" /> <img width="1028" height="1024" width_o="1028" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec282f9233bcd6dd5ef4009790e045a72b5c066f084e58ef8a2032d9f9ce5164/RASSADA_8.jpg" data-mid="35053522" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec282f9233bcd6dd5ef4009790e045a72b5c066f084e58ef8a2032d9f9ce5164/RASSADA_8.jpg" /> <img width="1028" height="1024" width_o="1028" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54ecb545095c9f40bb9192812dc2e18d1ee5bf767da9d9818b86eefb89dd34d5/RASSADA_5.jpg" data-mid="35053525" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54ecb545095c9f40bb9192812dc2e18d1ee5bf767da9d9818b86eefb89dd34d5/RASSADA_5.jpg" /> <img width="1028" height="1024" width_o="1028" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e7ebf622cfae9192d2bd02ceb6bc669dbc979464babeb9d644a0b184b661843/RASSADA_3.jpg" data-mid="35053527" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e7ebf622cfae9192d2bd02ceb6bc669dbc979464babeb9d644a0b184b661843/RASSADA_3.jpg" /> <img width="1028" height="1024" width_o="1028" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08741dcb76ab954cc2072b18e156b4e49f5800e35758b23af8f60229d0bd7861/RASSADA_2.jpg" data-mid="35053528" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08741dcb76ab954cc2072b18e156b4e49f5800e35758b23af8f60229d0bd7861/RASSADA_2.jpg" /> <img width="1028" height="1024" width_o="1028" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67cdb41e5893fe3b2544e4eec2f5434b4b7536d5a0a8abbcdf9293bb16fe2ca6/RASSADA_1.jpg" data-mid="35053521" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67cdb41e5893fe3b2544e4eec2f5434b4b7536d5a0a8abbcdf9293bb16fe2ca6/RASSADA_1.jpg" /> i. The way out of somewhere (nowhere is also anywhere), a 1-hour piece for solo electric guitar written by cyril scheer and performed by Vladimir Gorlinsky, for whom it is written specially. Premiered in the cold evening of late November 2015 near the pond. ii. Loud improvisation by Anton Kolosov, Aleksandr Skobeev, Andrey Guryanov and Sasha Elina, with snow and birds. iii. Quiet improvisation by the old pond, performed by Kate Shilonosova, Aleksandr Skobeev, cyril scheer, Sasha Elina, Maria Marchenkova, Vladimir Gorlinsky, Sasha Moroz and Daniil Pilchen. THE SAME https://sashaelina.com/THE-SAME Sun, 10 Feb 2019 12:58:26 +0000 Sasha Elina https://sashaelina.com/THE-SAME THE SAME ENSEMBLE The Same Ensemble — Sasha Elina (voice, flute), cyril scheer (piano) — is a duo performing delicate experimental music and original song arrangements. <img width="1280" height="851" width_o="1280" height_o="851" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62c1be7637cc5044540a3cc0fbb04f2d93000ff35713a5327e24f032e43a4526/photo_2021-10-07-17.16.52.jpeg" data-mid="120993379" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62c1be7637cc5044540a3cc0fbb04f2d93000ff35713a5327e24f032e43a4526/photo_2021-10-07-17.16.52.jpeg" /> <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fef4088f2aae02fbdd899e6b7dae37ff3a45094c830cea75095c6ec07ae9723e/thesame.jpg" data-mid="35049550" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fef4088f2aae02fbdd899e6b7dae37ff3a45094c830cea75095c6ec07ae9723e/thesame.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c46e49d21aa0ff90c9cda84fdc30381e662a579334a5e78a79ff51f6e92ac2b/DSC02930.JPG" data-mid="35049468" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c46e49d21aa0ff90c9cda84fdc30381e662a579334a5e78a79ff51f6e92ac2b/DSC02930.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a312bd48a1b36089419558bf8fe51355d799de60721ab33cc6b1580595900964/1DSCF5940-.jpg" data-mid="51570761" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a312bd48a1b36089419558bf8fe51355d799de60721ab33cc6b1580595900964/1DSCF5940-.jpg" /> Reality has an unusual setup. The Same Ensemble was formed in 2013. Sasha and cyril strive to play music that is ever-transparent, so that not only sound, but contact is heard; not only structure, but interacting personalities of both the participants. Each project of the ensemble is an integral whole made of independent parts — from new and experimental music to reduced, mysterious transcriptions of popular song. Transferring their programmes from place to place, from time to time, The Same Ensemble revise reality in the intimate sound of voice and instruments, producing stories of sounds’ interrelation with subtle emotional structures. Repertoire: — Music by Antoine Beuger, Dante Boon, Daniel Brandes, Seamus Cater, Johnny Chang, Yanka Dyagileva, Jürg Frey, Cameron Graham, Eva-Maria Houben, Valentin Silvestrov, Aleksandr Kneifel, Darya Zvezdina, Alexey Shmurak, Rishin Singh, cyril scheer. — Soccer Committee (aka Mariska Baars) – Two albums / transcribed by cyril scheer — cyril scheer – "Songs of Innocence" on William Blake’s poems — Yegor Letov – "Children’s Songs" / transcribed by cyril scheer — Daniil Pilchen – "Language of Flowers" song cycle The ensemble performed in Croatia, Germany, the Netherlands and Russia. In 2021, The Same Ensemble contributed to a double-CD on Edition Wandelweiser. In 2017 cyril scheer and Sasha starred in a film Tomorrow Will Be The Same by Petr Laden — a musical film in a form of post-apocalyptic mini-series episode, for which they created the soundtrack. INSTAGRAM,&nbsp;FACEBOOK, SOUNDCLOUD