Absolute Solo. (1990)

Documentary №9892, 3 parts, duration: 0:28:15
Production: CSDF (RCSDF)
Director:Yurina T.
Screenwriters:Yurina T.
Camera operators:Nikonov V.
Composers:Chekalin M.G.

Annotation:

On the composer-avant-gardist Mikhail Chekalin. The author is performing his works by synthesizer.

Reel №1

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"How would preface ..."

Interview with D.P.Uhov.

The interview takes place in the hall of the music store, people crowding at the counter, choose a plate.

M.G.Chekalin on city streets.

Dark underpass.

Man climbs the stairs, walking down the street, the crowd dissolved.

M.G.Chekalin goes through courtyards and arches.

The musician closes the door entrance, elevator apartment.

At night the streets are lit lanterns.

Reflections in the water lanterns.

M.G.Chekalin`s apartment, the owner plays a synthesizer.

Reflections in a convex glass alarm.

Animation: space reasons, the game of color and light, as in a kaleidoscope.

Multicolored light modulations periodically on their background appears musician.

Key words

avant-garde
neoclassic
electronic music
experimental music
chamber music
progressive rock
improvisation
ambient

Personnel:

Ukhov DP - Musicologist, writer, radio host. Chekalin MG - Composer, musician, artist, producer, actor of audio-visual genre.

Locations: Moscow [820]

Seasons: Autumn [826]

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Music posters.

Tells M.G.Chekalin.

Alternation: musician plays on synthesizer, abstract images.

On the sandy slopes bare roots sticking pines.

Pine Forest, the trees.

Sparrow on a branch of a birch, growing out of the wall of the house.

The walls of an abandoned building.

M.G.Chekalin`s apartment.

Many distorted mirror reflections.

The door opens an empty elevator shaft.

Abandoned building, inside view.

Debris from the outside, through the trees the sun shines.

Fluctuations in the level of sound on a synthesizer.

Dissolve: clouds in the sky, the face of the musician.

Floating images of M.G.Chekalin.

On the coast of the incoming wave, the tree grows out of the water.

Waves wash shore rocks.

M.G.Chekalin`s apartment.

The musician works for synthesizer.

Key words

avant-garde
neoclassic
electronic music
experimental music
chamber music
progressive rock
improvisation
ambient

Personnel:

Chekalin MG - Composer, musician, artist, producer, actor of audio-visual genre.

Locations: Moscow [820]

Seasons: Autumn [826]

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Animation: Scissor musician musical sheets.

Abstract images of M.G.Chekalin.

Animation: the vision of music in color.

A series of grotesque figures of musicians.

Concert posters.

Tells M.G.Chekalin.

A series of drawings on the church and religious themes.

Panorama mountains peaks are hidden by fog.

View of the valley below.

Waves lap at the coastal rocks.

M.G.Chekalin.

Fluctuations in the level of sound on a synthesizer.

Tells M.G.Chekalin.

The lights on the night streets.

Keyboard synthesizer.

Hands of the musician.

Key words

avant-garde
neoclassic
electronic music
experimental music
chamber music
progressive rock
improvisation
ambient

Personnel:

Chekalin MG - Composer, musician, artist, producer, actor of audio-visual genre.

Locations: Moscow [820]

Seasons: Autumn [826]

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