DOI: 10.36871/hon.202002018
Authors
M. A. Stepanova
Gnesins Russian Academy of Music, Russian Federation, Moscow
Abstract
This article is an interview with Victor Ulyanich — composer, Honored Artist of Russia, founder
of the Computer Music Department of the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music, Professor,
Ph.D. in History of Arts. The interview preceded by a brief characteristic of the composer's
creativity, genre preferences and characterological content of his compositions, including nature
and its sacredness, cosmos and human within it, correlations of all things in the Universe,
temptation and resistance to it, and Christian ideas.
The main attention is focused on a number of aspects of the Ladozvonn integrated musictheoretical
system, which was created by the composer. In order to fully reveal the parameters
of its functioning, the author conducted an interview with the composer, which fits seamlessly
into the outline of the article. In the process of the dialogue, important points were revealed
concerning the use of the main tool of the Ladozvonn system — colored rectangular matrices,
the concepts of invariance and fractality, and timbre dramaturgy as a functional analogue of
the system in harmony. During the dialogue with the musician, the author substantiates the
need to introduce such special terms as "ladozvonn" and "ladozvonn tree" into compositional
and musicological usage, as well as to refer not to mathematical, but to musical categories in
the process of working on a computer work. The composer raises questions about the repertoire
of computer music, and in conclusion, expresses an opinion on the state of modern
culture and the composer's place in the world.
Keywords
Victor Ulyanich, computer music, Ladozvonn Integrated Music-Theoretical System, color matrix
