murmansk spaceport

documentation of a musical journey to jupiter on 28 November 2015

a journey within the 2015 Dark Ecology journey which departed from Murmansk Spaceport

Saturday 28 Novermber 2015

Мурманский Космодром

Ekaterina Efremova – vocals, guitar, electronics
Andrey Gaiduk aka 23:59 – computer
Hilary Jeffery – trombone, computer, composition, sound design, conductor
Svetlana Matveeva – vocals, keyboard, electronics
Timur Mizinov – guitar, trumpet, althorn, electronics
Anna Rotar – trombone
Maria Rusinovskaya – production, logistics, co-curator and facilitator
Victor Skorbenko – vocals, guitar, electronics, conductor
Kristin Alsos Strand – cello
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Anton Shamshin – sound technician
Igor Trofimov – sound and video technician, electrician
Ivan Dubovsky – hospitality, stage building, logistics
Roman Vasin – hospitality, stage building, logistics
Pavel Polyakov – graffiti artist, designer of the Murmansk Spaceport banner
Sergey Golubev – light technician

ROXY
Alexandra Nevskogo Street 93
MURMANSK
RUSSIA

project commissioned by Dark Ecology – Sonic Acts and Hilde Methi

darkecology.net


[PDF]

murmansk_spaceport

text by Hilary Jeffery

published in Belina, Mirna (ed.) (2016)
Living Earth: Field Notes from the Dark Ecology Project 2014-2016, Amsterdam: Sonic Acts Press


[VIDEO] Dark Ecology 2015

[VIDEO] Goodbye Gravity – test run…


RECORDINGS

the recordings are still being transmitted from jupiter and very slowly translated into earth-audio format…

MURMANSK SPACEPORT – departure
featured musician: Andrey Gaiduk

Мурманский Космодром – отправление


GOODBYE GRAVITY?
ensemble, conducted by Victor Skorbenko

[AUDIO] Прощай Гравитация?

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IN THE STARS
featured musician: Svetlana Matveeva

[AUDIO] Меж Звезд

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NORTHERN DARK
featured musician: Kristin Alsos Strand

[AUDIO] Северная Темнота

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JUPITER TUNING
ensemble

[AUDIO] Юпитер Настраивается

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I FLOAT
ensemble

Парю


TENDERNESS
featured musician: Ekaterina Efremova

[AUDIO] Нежность

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I GIVE COORDINATES
featured musician: Timur Mizinov

Сообщаю Координаты


JUPITER GROOVE
featured musician: Victor Skorbenko

Юпитер Грув


MURMANSK SPACEPORT – arrival
ensemble

Мурманский Космодром – прибытие


During November 2015 local musicians from Murmansk and Bodø worked together with Hilary Jeffery to play at “Murmansk Spaceport”, from where they travelled to Jupiter. A port is a place of departure and arrival, of temporary transactions and unstable conditions. Murmansk Spaceport was such an environment – designed for exploring unknown territories.

During their time there the musicians were encouraged to travel imaginatively into areas which they did not know, to explore dark territories of which they had little or no prior experience. For Hilary this meant to explore the atmosphere and mood of Murmansk in November, which for him was an unusually dark environment. Additionally he attempted to enter into the sound of Russian, a language which was unknown and new for him.

In a similar way each musician was asked to explore areas of which they were non-expert, to literally enter the dark of what was previously unknown. New channels were opened during the rehearsal process and everything was prepared for a public journey on Saturday 28 November, departing from and arriving back at Мурманский Космодром. Through this work we opened gates to new territories.

Lysn (2005 – 2015) was conceived as an ever-changing ensemble playing music for the ‘inner-space age’ – an era in which people are increasingly and inevitably turning inwards. During the creation of Murmansk Spaceport each participant experienced various stages of opening into their own unique inner-spaces and this led to a special atmosphere which allowed the audience who attended to do likewise.

[VIDEO] interview with Hilary Jeffery at Murmansk Spaceport (shortly before departure…)