Andrey Guryanov

Andrey Guryanov is a sound artist with free improvisation, independent cinema, and experimental electronic music background. He uses his self-developed software to create versatile yet precise and delicate sound spaces; be it a film soundtrack or an improvised electroacoustic set, the core of his music is sonic ideas, exploring the infinite possibilities of electronic music aesthetics. His debut solo album Anthems is a conceptual research of sound as a document in the field of media archaeology. Subtle, entrancing, darkly ecstatic music of hypnotic potency and experimental ingenuity blending art noise, ambient isolationism, dense drone, and micro-dub, it is also a political statement. "Without the political agenda, this would still be compelling, dark sound art. As it is, it’s haunting music of disturbing potency”, as The Wire magazine mentioned. His live sets focus on feedback-based self-balancing sonic systems. The sound correlations created by these systems are similar in the core of their principles to natural economic or social models. Dense and highly detailed textures explore borders of stability, from bliss to blast. He uses acoustic, digital, and analog instruments to create a sound environment based on the sonic features of the space in real-time.

Anthems is the title of the latest album by Berlin-based Russian composer and sound artist Andrey Guryanov. It tells the story of the Soviet and Russian national anthems, from The Internationale to Stalin’s Soviet anthem, which was abolished after the end of the Cold War and then resurrected by Putin. Guryanov sampled contemporary recordings of all the hymns, and always departed from the moment of pause between the tuning chord and the first verse as the source material for his sound manipulations. Static noise and interference map out a score of violent history; the finale 2022 consists exclusively of the sounds of explosions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.