Alexey Borisov
Composer, sound artist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, promoter, journalist.
Alexey is a Russian musician who stood at the origins of such styles and trends as new wave, electroscope, industrial, experimental electronics, noise, free improvisation, etc. He has hundreds of concerts all over the world, participation in major international festivals of electronic and experimental music, collaboration with musicians, sound artists, poets, directors, dancers and fashion designers from different countries.
Among the groups and projects of Borisov are: Night Prospectus, FRUITS (together with Pavel Zhagun), Volga, ASTMA (together with Olga Nosovaya), Gospaln Trio, Sounds We, Rivushie Strings and many others.
Borisov’s musical style is a unique combination of guitar improvisations with electronics, musique concrete, vocal impromptu and spoken word.
Also deals with electro-acoustics, free improvisation, participates in art projects and theatrical productions.
Collaborates with many video artists, directors, poets, dancers, performance artists.
He voiced silent films (together with Sergey Letov, Alexander Alexandrov, Olga Nosovoy, Dietrich Eichmann, Bob Meanza, Tikhon Kubov), including “Faust” by Friedrich Murnau (1928), “Aelita” by Yakov Protazanov (1924), “11th” ( 1928), “Enthusiasm” (1930) Dziga Vertov and others.
Borisov’s discography includes more than 100 albums and compilations on all existing media.
Since 2003, he has been the curator of the experimental music festival “Noise and Rage” in the cultural center “DOM” (Moscow).