alexei pliousnine

Info "Petropol" Award winning composer, music performer, promoter, producer, lecturer, critic, leader of APosition Creative Union.

projects: YGO - is a multimedia project involving 3 artists from St.Petersburg, Russia. YGO is a synthesis of experimental music, (...)

Info "Petropol" Award winning composer, music performer, promoter, producer, lecturer, critic, leader of APosition Creative Union.

projects: YGO - is a multimedia project involving 3 artists from St.Petersburg, Russia. YGO is a synthesis of experimental music, video art and unique ancient Russian singing tradition “Znamenny Raspev” (Znamenny Chant). One of the goals of the project is to familiarize the general public with the history and treasures of Russian Spiritual music and liturgical chant.
MANDELBROT - avant black metal
RDBB (Russian Derevyashn Blues Band) - avant rock band 1982-2002
LOLITA - Moscow based garage punk band 1986-1990

bio: Alexei Pliousnine (1962) - "Petropol" Award winning composer, music performer, promoter, producer, lecturer, critic, leader of APosition Creative Union.
Alexei was born in 1962 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
He graduated from college with a degree in theoretical physics.
Became active in music in early 1980-s.
Between 1981 and 1990, while living in Moscow, Russia, participated in numerous artistic projects: founded rock band Lolita, which released a 1990 tape album “Moscow Vacations”, since featured in the chart of 100 Best Tapes of Russian Rock. Participated in creating of "Gorbushka" music and artistic center.
Since 1991 - after moving back to St. Petersburg, for several years performed and recorded albums with an avantrock band RDDB.
1999 - involved with the Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival SKIF. Between 2001 and 2004 acted as the SKIF Artistic Director and participated in organizing of SKIF in Berlin on 2003.
2002 - created the APosition Creative Union and became its producer as well as a member-musician. On 2005, Alexei founded the International Music Forum APOSITSIA that became an annual event gathering together experimenting artists from all over the world.
September 2004 - took part in free jazz improvising project that included a recording session at the Fantasy Records produced by Henry Keiser. These recordings were compiled in two albums as Kaiser/Pliousnine.
2007 – in collaboration with other St.Petersburg artists established Share SPb – multimedia project.
Throughout his music career Alexei Pliousnine performed with: Peter Broetzmann, Patti Smith, David Murray, Keith Rowe, Shelley Hirsch, Raymond Boni, Yanka Diaghileva, Igor Letov, Sergey Letov, Nick Rock’n’roll, Vlad CPC, Gary Lucas, Henry Kaiser, Soren Runolf, Dror Feiler, Daniel Carter, Borah Bergman, Lukas Ligeti, Frank London, Jon Raskin, Gino Robair, Damon Smith, Marco Enieidi, Lou Grassi, Charles Gayle, Tim Hodgkinson, Jacques Di Donato, Хavier Charles, Didier Lasserre, Christian Brazier, James Fei, Mola Sylla, Rob Schwimmer, Tom Buckner amongst others. He also participated in various music and theatre related projects, including "Simon the Magus", a joint production with the Mariinskij (Kirov) Ballet.
Alexei was the first Russian improvising artist to perform at CBGB’S and Tonic club in New York. With different projects Alexei has been participating in several SKIF festivals, including SKIF in Berlin, festival HABITATS 2006 in New York, Khan Altay 2008 and many other festivals and forums in Russia, USA, Germany, Poland, Finland. On 2006, he took part in Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening class at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he performed a solo work “Scott of Antarctic” the first part of Heroic Project (soundart collaborative project by the members of APosition).
Alexei Pliousnine is also an active writer and authored many articles on music, various essays, as well as publishing an online music magazine "MusArt"; played several characters in various movies; received the Petropol Award for music to a poetic project "Voices of St. Petersburg" and delivered several lectures in Finland in 2002 on contemporary Russian music culture.
Produced and promoted a great number of performances featuring artists like minimalism godfather Terry Riley, legendary Polish prog rock band SBB, Peter Broetzmann, Marcus Stockhausen, Pamela Z, Bill Drummond, Jim Thirlwell (aka Foetus), Masahiko Satoh, Pierre Moerlen’s Gong, Hans Reichel & Rudiger Carl, Charles Gale, German krautrock pioneers Faust, ex Samla Mammas Manna leader Lars Holmer, Kimmo Pohjonen, Keith & Julia Tippett, Frank London, Tenores di Bitti, Iranian classical collective by Reza Moafi, Han Bennink, Kampec Dolores, Italian avant rock – free jazz combo Zu, Willem Broeker Kollektieff, Misha Mengelberg, Otomo Yoshihide, Gjallarhorn, Shelley Hirsh, Eugene Chadbourne, ex Can singer Damo Suzuki, mugam master from Azerbaijan Alim Kasymov, Michel Berkmans of Univers Zero, Keshavan Maslak, contemporary Dutch composer Theo Loevendie, Je Chun Park, John Cale of Velvet Underground, Holger Czukay from Can, Fred Frith of Henry Cow, Slave Pianos, Magma, Henry Kaiser, John Oswald, Hamid Drake, William Parker, Gary Lucas from Captain Beefheart Magic Band, David Moss, David Murray, Deep Listening founder composer Pauline Oliveros, Marco Enieidi, Lou Grassi, Tim Hodgkinson of Henry Cow, Jacques Di Donato, Хavier Charles, Didier Lasserre, Finnish vocal quartet Me Naiset, Christian Brazier, Metamorphosis, Tara Fuki, De Kift, Vladimir Tarasov from Ganelin Trio, Анатолий Вапиров, Валентина Пономарева, Moscow Art Trio, Milan Svoboda, Canadian avant violinist Nash the Slash, Sainkho Namchylak, Lukas Ligeti, Soren Runolf and Dror Feiler from Lokomotiv Konkret, Mark Stewart from Bang on a Can, Evelina Petrova, royal Korean ensemble Ge Um Hwe, Rhys Chatham, …
contacts:
Email: alexei.pliousnine@gmail.com ; rdbb@mail.ru
Web site: http://www.aposition.ru, http://republikavega.narod.ru
tel. cell+7 911 933 9488
home (812) 437 7010

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