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Denis Kolokol
musician, independent software developer

current location: Kraków, Poland
contact: denis_kolokol AT ukr.net

music moves matter
Any complex dynamic system shows extreme sensitivity to initial conditions. That means that the behavior of the same system with insubstantial difference in the initial conditions, will always be unpredictably different.

We live in ultra-complex reality holding together by chaotic connections between things and events. Insignificant occurrences can cause global changes. All things are interconnected, there are no things of smaller or bigger importance. On a global scale all things are important as well as any particular thing is unimportant. Acute sensitivity causes extreme unpredictability.

Music can be organized this way. One of the most elegant branches in contemporary mathematics called 'chaotic maps' (that includes algorithms known as attractors, for example, those of Hénon and Lorenz) is able to produce streams of numbers, in which one can find small models of natural phenomena like growth of an organism, a tornado, a cyclone - they literally "look like" those appearances. Once obtained, those numbers can be mapped to parameters of sound: pitch, duration, density, attacks and decays, spectral characteristics, etc. With this I seek to build a small audio model of much broader system.

I never predict any exact sound as I don't want my music to be precisely constructed - I want it to be full of collisions, storms, cyclones, and furiously moving masses of matter...

Other activities
:: http://soundagmata.wordpress.com/
:: http://www.replicafest.org/
:: http://millermusic.kz/

Grants and scholarships
:: Artist in residence in the Electroacoustic Music Studio (SME) of the Academy of Music in Kraków, Poland 2008
:: CECArtsLink fellow in 2009 http://www.cecartslink.org/ - residency at CalArts
:: Mobility grant and residence Map Extension 2011 http://www.art4eu.net/
:: CECArtsLink Independent Project 2011 (to be realized in 2012) http://www.cecartslink.org/

Participation
REPLICA festival (2006, 2007, Almaty KZ), Intermedium 2008, Intermedium 2008#2 (2008, Kraków PL), Unsound on tour (2008, Minsk BY), Unsound (2009, PL), Zone @ Secession (2009, Vienn AU), Noc Muzeów (2010, Kraków PL, collaborator of Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie), Ultrahang (October 2010, Budapest HU), Unsound (October 2011, Kraków PL), Ad Libitum (October 2011, Warsaw PL)...

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