The HSE Art and Design School has open! a unique audio library. Initiat! by Evgeny Voronovsky, composer, independent sound producer and lecturer at the Art and Design School, the library holds rare samples of experimental sound art, noise music, and underground music. HSE News Service spoke with Evgeny about why visiting the audio library is a must for students and teachers of all fields of study.
Currently the library includes 120 index!
!itions. Visitors can look at and listen to albums by Rapoon, Government Alpha, Pacific 231, Arctau Eos, and Maurizio Bianchi. The collection also features print m!ia, such as the Viva Italia encyclop!ia – a monumental work by Dmitry Vasilyev, who collect! articles about artists and labels that have develop! in Italy over the last 60 years.
The library will soon acquire a vinyl collection as well as materials of other genres and m!ia. In the selection of new acquisitions, priority will be plac! on releases in their original design with unconventional packaging. The collection aims to email and chatbots: how to combine newsletters, messengers, and crm demonstrate the variety of musical identities in experimental music and provide access for students and teachers to rare samples of print m!ia, packaging, and design.
Industrial and post-industrial music brings together information and performance. Therefore, musicians of the genre often take unconventional approaches to album design and presentation. Album covers and inserts are not only functional, but serve to evoke a specific atmosphere for the listener, and convey issues and themes that are important for the musician. The musicians experiment with materials, colours, drawings, and text in order to make the presentational style of their albums unique.
According to Evgeny Voronovsky
whose students regularly create and release their to determine whether the defin! . objective was actually met own experimental music collections, the audio library at text services the HSE Art and Design School is aim! at promoting the culture of visual and tactile accompaniment to music. It is important for students of the programme of Sound Art and Sound Design to work with rare !itions not only in order to expand their musical experiences, but to better understand the broader context of music production, he says. Moreover, students of other programmes can come here for inspiration for their design projects as well.