Кадзе (premiere June 13, 2024)

After contributing sound design to Metheor Collective's "Дарума" back in 2021, I'm happy to share "Кадзе". Its somewhat spiritual successor premieres on June 13 at Sofia's Lumiere Cinema. Find your tickets here.

Дарума (premiere Dec 10, 2021)

I spent the last month(s) within the dreamy realm(s) of "Дарума", another fascinating project by Metheor Collective. In close collaboration with director Ani Vaseva, I carefully fleshed out its sound world. The film premieres on December 10 at Lumiere Cinema, NDK. Find your ticket here. 

RSVP: https://facebook.com/events/586685032616924/

Tattoos, reverb and bass

This month I had the pleasure to work on a video project shot and directed by my mate HRB. (Ivaylo Totev), something between a documentary and short film about Todor Penev, a very talented tattoo artist, currently living in Sofia, Bulgaria. Whoever knows my work will agree I've kind of went out of my skin for this video and made something new for myself. Check out the result below. 

Read a cool feature on Todor Penev and his work here. 

As Far Away As Near (2013)

Watch an excerpt of the video at serapionov.info

'As Far Away As Near' (2013) is another video art piece featuring my music, this time in a collaboration with my buddy Martin Lukanov. The piece is a work by Kalin Serapionov. It's combining various night city landscapes, all filmed at random. Our task in building and structuring the sound was to create an absurd soundscape, merging with the lo-fi urban ambiance, already captured by the camera. 

What we did was play around with a no-input circuit using an almost broken mixing board. Besides all inner sounds emerging in the console I played a lot of synths and various software instruments, and we got their sound destroyed by the mixer as well.

The result? Well you have to hear it. It's sometimes subtle, sometimes piercing your ears with ultrasounds and often it reaches harsh ambient/drone or almost industrial peaks. 'As Far Away As Near' (2013) has already been presented abroad, and from October 2nd until November 2nd it will be shown in ICA Sofia. The opening is on October 1st at 18:00. Details here.

Corpus (2013)

As I explained few posts ago, my freshly abandoned music activities in the hardcore/punk/metal scene will be replaced by sticking more to electro-acoustic and media music. Not only because this is the field I want to grow in, but it's also the place where I can independently develop my music without other (master) minds interfering in my aesthetic choices. One of the latest results of this is called "CORPUS", it's short film, somewhere between video art and visual music. It was initiated and created by the Bulgarian contemporary dancer and performance artist Iskra Ivanova and it's featuring a piece I exclusively created and recorded.The good news is that collab won't be our last, so keep an eye for updates are coming soon!

"The main goal of this video is to show the body beyond cultural, anthropological, social, political and tribal beliefs."

A curious fact about the piece I created for the video is that it was solely composed on a mobile device. Then it was heavily resampled and reamped, thus retaining its original structure. The only additional element was a speech recording of Iskra explaining the concept of the project, which after my intervention became one of the leading "melodies" in the piece.

CORPUS from Iskra Ivanova on Vimeo.

A small premiere for those who care

'Botev Is an Idiot' / "Ботев е идиот" is a short movie, featuring my music. Actually it's quite a minimalist soundtrack for quite a minimalist movie, still provocative enough for it is discussing the really significant topic of our (Bulgarian) educational system. The (short) movie won this year's Duka Fest (Serbia) award for best feature film, and still got declined by two Bulgarian festivals. On February 4, kinematograf.bg are setting up an exclusive premiere for it in Sofia's Studio 5 Club. RCVP here, and yeah feedback is welcome.

Awards:
Best Feature Film (Duka Fest '13)
Best Bulgarian Fiction (In The Palace '13)
+ Euroshots Special Mention

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