Kyiv Dispatch: Noisy intro

Max Werner, electric guitar 

Ian Spektor, field recordings, electronics 

Alexey Gnedenko, video art

Kyiv Dispatch is a two-day festival co-curated by Kyiv-based Ukho Music and InterAKT Initiative of Stuttgart. Its concert program showcases some of the key Ukrainian composers and performers of contemporary classical and electroacoustic music, while installations primarily delve on documentary soundscapes. 

The opening piece is a live electronic performance based on a sonic journal put together by a Ukrainian sound artist and producer Ian Spektor, featuring material recorded in Kyiv and the region throughout 2022. The bit is accompanied by the electric guitar of Max Werner and video art of Alexey Gnedenko - the trio has had a history of collaborations as residents of Plivka Art Centre and 2c1b, crossing paths as noise and musique concrète enthusiasts, but would be reuniting for the first time this year due to the war. 

Public and private is key to this work, as it features an array of field recordings from places as emblematic as Przemysl-Kyiv train (one of the main vehicles of evacuation) or Kyiv Central Army Hospital, to very intimate moments of family celebrations, solitary walks and deep-seated kitchen conversations from the besieged Kyiv of March 2022. Spektor’s previous work focused on the study of early children's musicality, child’s immediate reactions to music and sounds – and this theme finds its place here too. Poignant and personal, Spektor’s recordings manage to speak of war omitting the direct shock or violence porn. 

Kyiv Dispatch is presented by InterAKT Initiative and Ukho Music in cooperation with Musik der Jahrhunderte.

The Music fund Ukraine is a project of Goethe-Institut incorporated into a comprehensive package of measures for which the Federal Foreign Office provides funding from the 2022 Supplementary Budget to mitigate the effects of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and which is supported by the Ernst von Siemens-Musikstiftung.

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