sergey kasich (ru: сергей касич)

- an interdisciplinary artist, technologist, researcher, curator and producer with focus in electronic\computer music and sound arts.

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In decades of cross-genre activities, I have been directly involved with primer historical institutions in fields of science and music:

- Psychology Faculty of Moscow State University - the oldest educational tradition in psychology in Russia.

- Psychology Institute of Russian Academy of Education (PIRAO) - historically the first research institute in psychology opened in Russia.

- Theremin Center of Moscow State Conservatory - the first international center for electroacoustic music in Russia, where I directly worked with heritage of Leon Theremin and Evgeniy Murzin (ANS synthesizer).

- STRELKA institute for media, architecture and design - a unique research and education institute, programmed by Rem Kolhaas and other primer thinkers in modern urbanism.

- Harvestworks studio - the oldest existing center for media arts in the USA, focused on electronic sound arts.

- DAAD artist-in-berlin program - historically the oldest running residency program for art in Germany.

- Music Department of University of California San Diego - one of the most prominent experimental and computer music programs in the world.

I initiated and curated artistic communities, pioneering topics of experimental electronic music and sound arts in Russia. From 2014 to 2024 I curated the physical infrastructure for sound arts in Moscow, which included Moscow Sound Art Studio and Moscow Sound Art Gallery. I initiated, produced and designed both of the projects.
In 2011 I designed a pioneering educational course in interactive real-time media for what was the only media arts school in Russia - Rodchenko's Art School. I've been teaching the course from 2011 until 2017.

In 2014 I designed and produced the educational course "Experimental Sound and Multimedia Technologies", which for years was the only educational facility in Russia to teach subjects like nodal and text coding, electronics, modular synthesis and machine learning in one four-months integration. The course runs every year and helped to establish several new generations of Russian-speaking sound artists.

In parallel I became an early pioneer of music composition and sound design for immersive theaters - the genre which was introduced in Moscow with the largest production in 2015, for which I created music and served as technical advisor. I then wrote more music for immersive theaters in Russia, UK, USA and recently Arab Emirates. Aside of several nominations to the national theater awards, the musical theater play SWAN, based on my music - has been in the constant repertoire of historical Meyerhold's Center Theater for 10 years, until the center was shut down by government.

Ah.. I also worked for federal television as a composer and music producer, where the evening show with my music won the national TV award (TEFI) for the best prime-time in 2018.

Starting 2002 I perform a centennial lecture titled "Phenomena of Electronic Music". I do it every 10 years.

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