The organizers of the festival said that the festival of audiovisual arts “Light and Music” will be revived in Kazan.
The event will be held on July 15 with the support of the Bulat Galeev Prometheus Foundation for Supporting Audiovisual and Technological Art, the Smena Contemporary Culture Center and the Kazanorgsintez initiative (KOS, part of SIBUR).
Producer and audiovisual artist Flaty, musician Fjordwalker, and multi-instrumentalist Long Arm will take the stage on the factory grounds as part of the festival. Nadya Kimeliar, a young artist from Kazan Holofonote and Kazan media artist, will present an installation made especially for the festival.
One of the main points of the festival will be an experimental light media installation based on the work of the Prometheus Research Institute (Kaleidophone, 1984, Disco, 1986, The Indicator, 1972) and the archives of the Kazanorgsintez factory.
Musician, journalist and author of the Planettronics podcast Nick Zavriev’s podcast “How the synthesis of light and sound changed the art of the 20th century” will be heard on the festival service that will connect KOS and the Smena Center for Contemporary Culture.
The Soviet audio-visual festival “Light and Music” was organized in the 1960s-1990s by employees of the Research Institute of Experimental Aesthetics “Prometheus” in Kazan. The first festival was held in 1967, and in 1987 the largest event in the history of the festival was held in the city – 20 thousand spectators visited 9 venues, where 500 participants performed.
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