Music For The Flying City [Demikhov/Nàresh Ran]

Music for the Flying City è un progetto collaborativo tra Demikhov, Nàresh Ran e Bejond, prodotto da Dio Drone.
Si tratta di un unico brano generativo privo di inizio e di fine che esula dall’intervento dell’uomo nel suo prodursi. Il brano si ispira al progetto architettonico della città volante dell’architetto sovietico Georgii Krutikov (1928), ed è pensato per accompagnare la vita a bordo della città.


This work was born from a fortuitous discovery.
During an urban peregrination, we came into possession of a mysterious box containing a series of anonymous tapes. The date and place of the discovery will not be revealed.

After tortuous research, it emerged that these were the authentic tapes containing the soundtrack intended to decorate the spaces of the flying city designed in 1928 by the young Soviet architect Georgii Krutikov.

Well before the experiments of Brian Eno and Terry Riley, the anonymous author of the song collaborated with Krutikov in the development of a complex system that involved the simultaneous use of several tape loops. These loops, containing short fragments of sound information, were of different durations and recombined in different ways.
The result was a self-generative piece, without beginning or end, whose perpetual generation accompanied the fluctuation of the city and the lives of its inhabitants.

Out of curiosity, we were able - not without effort and only thanks to some sketches also kept in the box - to reconstruct the conditions to simultaneously reproduce all the tapes at our disposal, as faithfully as possible to what happened on board of the flying city.

In order to make the piece accessible to the contemporary listener, we decided to transfer its content onto audiocassette, choosing however to use loops, in order to respect the idea of the anonymous composer and Krutikov of a piece that could "never begin nor end".

Each audiocassette contains a different and unrepeatable fragment of this piece, testimony to the eventual production of a combination of sounds destined, in all probability, never to be repeated again.