Andrey Bundin

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Andrey Bundin is a composer, media artist, and educator based in St Petersburg. He writes music for theatre, film, television, and interactive installations and performances, while also designing new music instruments and developing software for working with sound. Winner of the Best Music Award at the Eindhoven Film Festival (2017) and Kuryokhin Prize (2018), he is a member of selection committee of the Web Audio Conference. He currently teaches at the Herzen University, New Media Laboratory at the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre, and New Cinema School.

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Concert for Smartphones, 2015. Connected to a wireless network and organized into one polyphonic multichannel synthesizer, the audience’s devices reproduce different noises, samples, and synthesised sounds from random locations in the hall

Microbiome Orchestra, 2020. New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre. Created through sonification of micro organisms, this piece imagines what could happen if our body’s microbiome created an orchestra

Ocean, 2020

Conundrum for Table and Electronics, 2016. A computer game for one percussionist on stage, this piece is dedicated to Mark Pekarsky, the first musician to perform it

Punctophone, 2017. In this work, Bundin sonifies the punctuation of several literary works, including Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin and Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, giving a new sound to the texts

Sphere, 2016. Written for virtual objects, octaphonic sound system, and contactless interface (Leap Motion), this piece does not feature any samples of live instruments in this work: instead, every sound is generated using physical modelling synthesis

Insects Orchestra: Swarm, 2020. Piece for a laptop ensemble

Partita for violin and electronics, 2019

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