Aliona Yurtsevich
SKETCHES, visual etudes (op.1)

SKETCHES, visual etudes (op.1) (2020) - is a set of graphic etudes (solo, duo and ensemble pieces) for various musicians, dancers and the installation of the graphic scores. The general concept is based on the understanding that music/sound extends beyond the audible: that we can see/hear/feel sound, imagined or concretely heard. Project SKETCHES is a phenomenological investigation and research into embodied aspects of sonic imagination and sound expression. The graphic etudes address cross-modal representation and communication of musical expression, and facilitate implementation of the interdisciplinary cross-modal language on stage, while juxtaposing both the musical and non-musical means of communication via visually augmented auditory imagination by means of visual graphic notation.

SKETCHES were developed in close collaboration with the New Ensemble | BY (voice: Tatiana Marchenko, flute: Andrej Shereshovets, bass guitar: Victor Huts and dancers: Eugenia Nikolaichuk and Olga Skvortsova), and presented in three interdisciplinary interactive concert-lectures, and an ongoing exhibition of large-format graphic artworks (scores) at The Minsk Museum of History (September 23-October 11, 2020, Belarus) to an audience from various creative fields.

Composer: Aliona Yurtsevich

Performed by: New Ensemble | BY: Tatiana Marchenko - voice Andrej Shereshovets - flute Viktor Huts - electric bass Olga Skvortsova - choreography, movement Eugenia Nikolajchuk - choreography, movement

Mastering: Andrej Akatov Realised and recorded at Minsk Museum of History (Belarus, 2020)