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BIOGRAPHY
Formed:
1996 in Minsk, Belarus
Group Members: Nikita Chudjakov,
Svetlana Shljachova
Style: IDM, Ambient-dub
Present Location: Ghent, Belgium
Releases: VA "Overdoze"
(Delta 9 Records); VA "Minsk Underground Sounds vol.1" (I&I
Records)
Gigs: Festival "Future
Sound Of Minsk" (1997, Belarus); "Effenar" (1999, Netherlands);
"2B" (1999, Netherlands); lives at Minks clubs “A-Club”,
“Q-zar”, “Reactor”; “M(Hertz series Vol. 2”
at Nieuwpoorttheater (2002, Belgium); "Cinecirq" Festival (2002,
ACEC, Gent, Belgium); "Electronic Sessions" (2003, JH Alfa venue
at Brakel, Belgium); Interactive audio/video workshop and live-performance
in context of "10 Days Of Living" (2003, Ghent, Belgium); Concert
hall Vooruit (2003, Ghent, Belgium);
solo-concert, Tetrahedron Hall, Logos Foundation (2004, Ghent, Belgium), solo-concert at cafe Video (june 2005, Ghent, Belgium); live in Tijuana (june 2005, Ghent, Belgium); participation in <M&M> Orchestra event "Robots go Techno" at Logos Foundation (march 2006, Ghent, Belgium)
“Elements of Sci-Fi" was
formed in 1996 by two old friends Nikita Chudjakov and Dmitri Protasevitch.
The main concept of
the project was to make a connection between atmosphere, ideas of science
fiction and music.This was realized in the form of electronic sonic landscapes carrying style-specific
images and thoughts; as a result, chilling and deep tracks appropriate for
home listening and 'chill-outs' were created.Using an old computer
and old soviet analog synthesizers, Elements Of Sci-Fi recorded their first
demo album. The demo was presented in May 97 at the
first Belorussian electronic music festival "Future Sound Of Minsk",
and could be described as ambient, musique concrete, dub and experimental
electronica. It gained a lot of positive and enthusiastic responses from
local media, promoters and fellow musicians.At about the same time
the work on the second Elements Of Sci-Fi album had began. Named "Symphotrain",
this CD was the third award-winner of the first Belorussian Electronic
Music Awards 1997-98 (the chief of the
jury, incidentally, was the famous electronic musician Christopher Franke
of Tangerine Dream).In January 1999, due to personal and creative changes Dmitri Protasevitch
left the band to pursue his own solo career as JDPC. In 2000 Svetlana Shljachova
joined Elements Of Sci-Fi as the new member.At the end of 2000, as a result of permanent political degradation and self-isolation
of Belarus, the band members moved to Ghent (Belgium) where they now live.In January-February 2002
Elements Of Sci-Fi made their third album "Stratum".
This album was premiered on 15th February 2002 at "m(Hertz" series
of experimental electronic music evenings in Ghent (organized by the Institute
Of Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music of Ghent and Nieuwpoorttheater).In
the end of 2002 Elements Of Sci-Fi finished their new interactive work
"Cinemath", which was presented
in December at the audio/video festival "Cinecirq"
(Belgium, Ghent). The core idea of this work is to experiment in live-performed
environment,
combining short pre-recorded self-made loops, rhythms and beats with the
live-assembled video-collage from the old Soviet sci-fi movies.These days the band continues to explore the fields of electronic music
creation, and also starts to run an audio/video workshops in Ghent. The first
workshop was successfully organized during the Gentse Feesten 2003, and involved
real-time audio/video manipulation (in context of the project 10 Days Of
Living), and live performance by the end of the workshop.In
September 2003 the new program - 30 minute mini-album "Moz-Art" was
presented live in concert hall Vooruit (Ghent, Belgium). The line-up also
included DAS ERSTE WIENER GEMUESEORCHESTER and SENOR COCONUT. The mini-album
consists of 5 tracks – electronica remakes and free interpretations
of works by genius-composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.In December 2003 as a Christmas present to the internet community, ‘Moz-Art’ mini-album was released as a net-album and is available for download at: http://users.skynet.be/cbi.zone/elements/moz-art.htm30 April 2004 followed participation in Belgian youth culture festival 'Het Beleg Van Schoten' (7 different locations with performances, theater, music and art) in the center of Schoten.9 September 2004 the group played solo-concert in Tetrahedron Hall of the famous experimental electronic music center - Logos Foundation. In 2005 the group members directed most of their efforts on development of the first own production for their side-project Kosmozo and also played a couple of live-concerts in Ghent (cafe Video and Tijuana, june 2005) following by collaboration on
Elements of Sci-Fi are always in search for new possibilities to play live or to release material. In case of any offers/proposals please contact: neuronick@yahoo.com