technical acoustics lab
About this artist
Technical Acoustics Lab is Alexander Bryzgalov. He was born in the East district of Moscow, Russia. In 1988 when he was 10 years old he understood that he wanted to be an electronic music composer specializing in dark and drone ambient. The inspiration had come after playing on the bobbin tape recorder in reverse. He started welding, chewing and washing tapes with his father's Beatles recordings on a very low speed. He recorded the received soundscapes on the monophonic cassette tape recorder.
As you may know at that time in East district of Moscow electronic musicians were criminally pursued by the "Kobzon's law" so his father had to take Alexander and the family an move to the Southern region of Moscow where he could go on experimenting with sounds freely. Sadly all recordings were burned before moving to avoid confiscation on the East-South border.
Technical Acoustics Lab was formed in 1998 when Alexander already had some experience and bought his first synthesizer, a Yamaha YS100. After that and with equipment increase (in particular - samplers and the equipment for field recording) music began to get forms close to IDM, soft industrial ambient and electroacoustics.
Alexander says: "I do not make preferences in equipment type. I like to combine digital and analogue devices, live recordings and computer programs. Each track is custom wired in the studio for this concrete track or soundscape. Special studio effects can happen when digital synthesizers can pass through analogue synthesizers, being exposed to processing in long chains of effects, mix up with nature sounds, the human and inhuman voices transformed beyond recognition. Therefore it is very difficult for me to organize live performances, but I'm working on it."
Releases
current music e.p.
VRB034 released 04 December 2008
Current music is the sounds created by a current and collected in a composition by means of human hands and brains. Read more...
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