Nikolai Khrust. Examples of my works
Composer CV 📝
Index
Art Works
Music
Interactive Sound Installations
Improvisation with colleagues: live electronics and instruments (incl. Octopus Ensemble)
Sound Design
Music Science
PhD Thesis about extended playing techniques and publications
Notation Design
Kh: My Typefaces for Contemporary Music Notation (Download)
Pop
Junior Songs
Education
Educational Projects with Children (Performances)
Publiс Lectures
Music
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ISM for reflected bass clarinet and click (8'28")
Oleg Tantsov (bass cl.) & the author (electronics)
nikolaykhrust · ISM for Reflected Bass Clarinet and Click
Microsonetto on CLXXI sonnet by Petrarch for soprano, ensemble and live electronics (12')
Moscow Art Prize. Lilia Gaysina (voice), MCME, the author (electronics), cond. Grigori Krotenko
Click to viewSmall World Creation for violin and live electronics improvisation (6'39")
‘Firma Melodiya’ record & Radio Kultura broadcasting. Yevgeni Subbotin (vn.) & the author (electronics)
- Start of music: 5:49
Eugenica I. Italian concerto for ensemble with oboe obbligato and live electronics (9'21")
Berliner Konzerthaus. Studio for New Music Moscow, Anastasia Tabankova (ob.), the author (electronics), cond. Igor Dronov
Nikolay Khrust · Eugenica I. Italian concerto. SNMM, I. Dronov (cond.), N. Khrust (Electronics). Berlin. Konzerthaus
Fluting point for flute, percussion and live electronics (19')
Commission and residence of CIRM Nice and GRAME Lyon.
Yi-Ping Yang (perc.), Fabrice Yunger (fl.), Max Bruckert (computer music design)
Nikolay Khrust · Nikolay Khrust. Fluting Point (2010) for flute & percussion. Fabrice Junger, Yi-Ping Yang
OF for button accordion and microtonal electric organ (6'14")
Viktoria Miroshnichenko (MIDI keyboard & controllers), Sergey Tchirkov (accordion)
Nikolay Khrust · Nikolay Khrust. OF (2014) for button accordion & microtonal electronic organ
Filament for Russian folk instruments orchestra (10")
1st prize of the III ‘Open Space’. “Rossiya” Lyudmila Zykina State Academic Russian Folk Ensemble, cond. Dmitry Dmitriënko
Государственный академический русский народный анс · Нить (feat. Николай Хруст)
Sprawling Street for baritone and large ensemble (very old, but short piece: 3'20")
Nikolay Alifanov (barytone), Studio for New Music, cond. Igor Dronov
nikolaykhrust · Sprawling street for barytone and large ensemble
Interactive Sound Installations
in collaboration with various visual artists
Click to see ‘documentational’ posts
Vyacheslav Koleychuk's “Atom” with my sound-light composition
Garage Museum Moscow, Gorky Park
“Even death appeared to me for the first time…”, in memoriam Osip Mandelstam
collaboration with Anna Koleychuk,
commission of Literature Museum Moscow, exposed also in Heidelberg (Germany), Granada (Spain)
“Protest”, a thematic audio-video installation for Cinema Museum Moscow exposition
collaboration with Anna Koleychuk
“Coming into the topic”. Dmitry Kawarga (idea, sculpture), Nikolay Khrust (sound)
Moscow, pop/off/art gallery, then Zagreb, MIMARA, ISCM Word Music Days
All the posts about my installations as a web feed
Improvisation with colleagues
Live electronics and instruments
Octopus ensemble found by Nikolay Khrust
“Home Music” Program on Radio Kultura, dedicated to the ensemble and its composers; moderated by Dmitri Oukhov
Fragments of impro:
- 3:50-5:40
- 58:20-end.
Nikolay Khrust · Дмитрий Ухов. Программа «Домашняя музыка». Группа «Осьминог». Радио «Культура»
Impro in a duet with my former student Rushaniya Nizamutdinova
Sound Design
“Housing Problem” Exhibition. Platonov Room (Sound design for a space)
Literature Museum Moscow
Nikolay Khrust · Kvartirnyi Vopros (Housing problem) Exhibition: 'Platonov'
Shakespeare readings. Three scenes from ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Popular educational project with lectures, reading and modern dancing.
The audios should be the background of actors and dancers play
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PhD Thesis & Publications
PhD Thesis
The Extended Techniques: The Experience of Classification (484 p.)
and accompanying publications
[Full list of scientific articles (Russian)]Full list of scientific articles (Russian)
- [What to Do if You Want to Compose Electroacoustic Music] Что делать, если вы хотите сочинять электроакустическую музыку? // Музыкальная академия. - 2020. - № 2 (770). - С. 195-221
- [About the Notation of the Bow Pressure in Extended Techniques for String Instruments] О нотации давления смычка в новых техниках игры на струнных инструментах // Музыкальная наука и композиторское творчество в современном мире. Сборник статей по материалам Международной научно-практической конференции Шестого Транснационального МолОт-фестиваля / ред.-сост. В. О. Петров. - Астрахань: «Триада», 2019. - С. 165-171
- [Review of Alexander Kharuto’s article ‘Determining a Phonogram: A Statistical Criterion of “Truth”’] Рецензия на статью Александра Харуто «Определение звукоряда по фонограмме: статистический критерий „истинности“». // Музыкальная академия. - 2019. - № 3 (367). - С. 240-243
- [Sound Design in the Contemporary Exhibition Space] Саунддизайн в современном выставочном пространстве. // Вестник московского государственного университета культуры и искусств. - 2018. - № 3 (83). - С. 123-134
- [The Micro-Intervals Notation in the Contemporary Music: the Need of Standardization. P. II] Нотация микроинтервалов в современной музыке: необходимость стандартизации. Ч. II. // Музыкальная академия. - 2018. - № 4 (764). - С. 136-141
- [The Micro-Intervals Notation in Contemporary Music: the Need of Standardization. P. I] Нотация микроинтервалов в современной музыке: необходимость стандартизации. Ч. I. // Музыкальная академия. - 2018. - № 3 (763). - С. 124-132
- [The Real Aleatory in an Interactive Sound Installation] Реальная алеаторика в интерактивной звуковой инсталляции. // Вестник академии русского балета им. А. Я. Вагановой. - 2018. - № 4 (57). - С. 142-164
- [The Extended Instrumental Techniques. The Experience of Classification] Новые инструментальные техники. Опыт классификации [Текст] / Н. Ю. Хруст // Научный вестник Московской консерватории. - 2016. - № 1. - С. 125-143 [0,8 п. л.]
- [The Extended Techniques on Musical Instruments. P. 6. The Intervention into the Construction of the Instrument] Новые техники игры на музыкальных инструментах. Ч. 6. Вмешательство в конструкцию инструмента. // Музыкальная жизнь. - 2011. - № 6. - С. 22-23 [0,21 п. л.]
- [The Extended Techniques on Musical Instruments. P. 5. Multiple Sounds (End)] Новые техники игры на музыкальных инструментах. Ч. 5. Многозвучия (окончание) // Музыкальная жизнь. - 2011. - № 3. - С. 24-25 [0,24 п. л.]
- [The Extended Techniques on Musical Instruments. P. 4. Multiple Sounds (Beginning)] Новые техники игры на музыкальных инструментах. Ч. 4. Многозвучия // Музыкальная жизнь. - 2011. - № 2. - С. 16-18 [0,28 п. л.]
- [The Extended Techniques on Musical Instruments. P. 3. Instruments Swap their Roles] Новые техники игры на музыкальных инструментах. Ч. 3. Инструменты меняются ролями // Музыкальная жизнь. - 2011. - № 1. - С. 18-20 [0,24 п. л.]
- [The Extended Techniques on Musical Instruments. P. 2. Microtonality] Новые техники игры на музыкальных инструментах. Ч. 2. Микрохроматика / Н. Ю. Хруст // Музыкальная жизнь. - 2010. - № 12. - С. 22-23 [0,23 п. л.]
- [The Extended Techniques on Musical Instruments. P. 1] Новые техники игры на музыкальных инструментах. Ч. 1 // Музыкальная жизнь. - 2010. - № 11. - С. 30-32
- [About Spiders and Octopuses. A Composer’s View to the Musical Form Today] Про пауков и осьминогов. Композиторский взгляд на музыкальную форму сегодня / Постмодернизм в контексте современной культуры [Postmodernism in a Context of Modern Culture] / Ред.-сост. О. В. Гарбуз. - М: МГК, 2009. - С. 78-89
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Notation Design
Kh: My Types for Contemporary Music Notation (Download)
Noteheads types: https://musicfonts.ru/kh-noteheads-66/
All types: https://musicfonts.ru/en/
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Junior Pop Songs
Sometimes I do it. : )
Most songs are for 9-11 year old children and written on their rhymes.
A Friend for Begemoth
Lyrics by Timophey Shiryayev (9 years old). Olga Oleynikova & Emergency Band. Live in Kozlov Jazz Club Moscow.
Nikolay Khrust. Songs · A Friend for Behemoth. Lyrics by Timophey Shiryayev. Emergency Band. Live in Kozlov Jazz Club
[Listen to four more songs (they are shorter;)...]
Moon Blues
Lyrics and voice by Alice Lisevskaya (11 years old)
The song is about a cat who loved the moon.
Nikolay Khrust. Songs · Nikolay Khrust. Lyrics and voice by Alice Lisevskaya. Moon Blues, Лунный блюз
The Golden Fish
Lyrics and voice by Anna Chebutayeva (10 years old)
Nikolay Khrust. Songs · The Golden Fish. Lyrics and voice by Anna Chebutaeva | Золотая рыбка
The Poor Eater
Lyrics by Yevgenia Rusinova. Singer: Yekaterina Anisimova
The protagonist resolutely refuses the food his parents offer him.
Nikolay Khrust. Songs · The Poor Eater. Lyrics by Yevgenia Rusinova. Singer: Yekaterina Anisimova | Малоежка
Natasha
Lyrics and voice by Anastasia Feldberg (17 years old). Retro-style song written for a very young poetess which plays flute and piano.
Natasha Rostova decided to abandon Pierre Bezoukhov. The drama unfolds in nowadays among the entourage of contemporary life in a big city. Pierre is a modern times ‘aristocrat’: he is a Moscow-based hipster. Pierre is suffering. Despite of the COVID quarantine he is going to find Natasha no matter what it costs him.
Nikolay Khrust. Songs · Natasha. Lyrics & voice by Anastasia Feldberg | Наташа
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Educational projects with children
Contemporary non-idiomatic improvisation master class with junior musicians (4'25")
Tchaikovsky-city
nikolaykhrust · Чайковский. Мастер - Класс Н. Хруста 21.8.29
Etenraku and Among Flowers. Japanese traditional music played by children (6'27")
A child camp. Most children are 11-13 years old. Half of them never played instruments before. Equipment is poor :)
Vika Gracheova (vocal), Anya Klepikova (flute), Kolya Radchenko & Sasha Grishin (accordions playing shen-style music), Anya Smirnova (bass guitar), Xenia Benivskaya (acoustic guitar), Vanya Goleshov (Russian reed rozhok), Stephan Goleshov (drum, percussion), Nikolai Khrust, leader of the studio (electric guitar, all sound processing & recording)
Nikolay Khrust · Etenraku and Among Flowers. Japanese Traditional
Public Lectures
Interactive Sound Installation: the Real Aleatory
Composers’ Reading in Nizhny Novgorod Conservatoire with Union of Composers of Russia and MCME ensemble
Interactive Sound Installation: the Kinetic and the Static
Garage Museum Moscow (Gorky Park)
Features of Live Performances and Real-Time Sound Convolution by the Example of the piece ‘Small World Creation. Katjas Gesang’
Center for Electroacoustic Music. III Seminars of SNMM ensemble
Video Lecture by Ekaterina Fomitskaya about my work ‘Small World Creation. Katjas Gesang’ (English Subtitles)
COVID quarantine action of Studio for New Music Ensemble (SNMM) & Moscow Conservatory
Ekaterina shows and analyzes extended playing techniques in the piece dedicated to her.
Contemporary Music and Extended Techniques
Moscow Conservatory, Centre for Electroacoustic Music (CEAM) with MCME ensemble
The Unusual Modes of Playing as a Base of Contemporary Composition
Sound Museum Saint-Petersburg