This project is being developed by me and Kiril Trepakov, the arranger -
the founder of "THE SPRING AT THE KARL YUCHAN STREET" group and
one of the leaders of electroproject "Expedition Zero".
I. Valery Siver
Valery Siver is a Russian musician and composer from Saint Petersburg. At
the age of 27 he received a professional musical education at Saint Petersburg
Music School for adults named after N.Rimsky-Korsakov after having finished
a classic guitar class of teacher Anatoly Khvan. Valery Siver began to
compose music at the age of 16.
Valery Siver's debut as a composer took place in 2000 when his album entitled
"Settler" was published. In 2001 Valery Siver as a producer released
an album of dance remixes "Love without Boundaries" in addition to
his album "Settler".
The last completed creative work of Valery Siver is album "MIDWAY"
made in 2001-2002 together with Kirill Trepakov arranger and composer from
Moscow. The album was published by "Elektroshock Records" Company.
The basis of musical creative work of Valery Siver is melodism (tuning) and
results of searching optimum modern forms of expressing those images, which
are created by melodies and harmonies or images giving birth to the melodies
and harmonies.
Valery Siver says: "Instrumental music is created by a creature (a
subject) which consists of two parts allegedly: a man being a source of
emotions, feelings, excitements, fantasies and a musical instrument being a
source of sound".
Melodies, melodic phrases and harmonies from compositions of Valery Siver
created on a classic guitar lay in the basis of works included in
"MIDWAY" album.
"Classic guitar is an instrument playing on which a man presses it to
his heart. In the process of creating music on the instrument a body and a
sole of a composer resonate with vibrations of an instrument".
The creative aim of album "MIDWAY" was to reveal those things which
the composer felt, underwent and saw when he was creating music together
with a classic guitar. Kirill Trepakov a talented arranger and composer
working in Ambient style helped Valery Siver to reveal it. Guitar parties
and production of music from it in album tracks were made by Valery Siver
himself and Kirill Trepakov was engaged in searching and performance of other
sounds.
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II. Kiril Trepakov
Kiryll Trepakov is a 32-year-old musician and audio producer from Moscow.
From childhood, he was trained to play classic guitar, and was also fond of
radio engineering. He steadily worked to develop his talents and hone his
skills, first with performances in a school rock band, and then in more
serious bands. After entering a music college, in addition to the guitar,
Kiryll started learning to play drums and folk plucked-string instruments.
And there he began recording students' jazz bands. In addition, he began a
new calling in sound engineering, an area in which he has become quite
successful.
Kiryll was invited to play the guitar in various bands. As a result, he
appeared as an accompanist on the guitar in the group of M. Zvezdinsky,
the famous Russian composer and singer. Soon Zvezdinsky purchased his own
studio, where Kiryll helped to arrange songs and continued to improve his
skills in sound engineering. Since 1993, Kiryll has managed to equip his
own home-based recording studio. Meanwhile he played the guitar in the
alternative bands "K.U.Street Spring" and "Medusa7".
In 1996, he started his own project, "Expedition Zero", and
continued to search for new sounds in his studio. The results of these
long-term endeavors are ten albums, five of which were successfully issued
on Russian electronic labels.
As an accomplished musician, Kiryll composes music for TV commercials,
and scores for computer games. He works on recording and mixing church
choirs and bells, and also prepares audio language courses and arranges
music for pop bands.
But Kiryll has always aspired to compose serious and intellectual music.
And this was the driving force behind his creation of "Midway",
a joint project with Valery Siver
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III. MIDWAY
The Midway project were created in co-operation in between of two musicians -
Valery Siver and Kirill Trepakov.
Creation of the sirious and intellectual forms is the common wish in their
co-operation. Bright melodic pictures, warm harmony of the music and deep
emotional structure - all of this are special components of their composing.
The music has got a new form attached with a ultramodern acustic sound and
guitar harmony, which helped to unite a embiental electronic composing of
Kirill with soft guitar melody of Valery. The chemistry of sintesator
extentions gave a new life to the guitar musuc structure.
Valery Siver is a Russian musician and composer from Saint Petersburg.
At the age of 27 he received a professional musical education at Saint
Petersburg Music School for adults named after N.Rimsky-Korsakov after
having finished a classic guitar class of teacher Anatoly Khvan. Valery
Siver began to compose music at the age of 16. Valery Siver's debut as a
composer took place in 2000 when his album entitled "Settler"
was published. In 2001 Valery Siver as a producer released an album of
dance remixes "Love without Boundaries" in addition to his
album "Settler".
In the same time Kirill was looking a new sound constructions in an
experimental project "Expedition Zero", with a 10 alboms (5 of
them were released) as a rezult.
The ultramodern sound creations and bright harmony of acustic guitar
has brought Valery Siver and Kirill Trepakov together in new project
"Midway".
Why "Midway" ?
Valery: "It seems to me I've pass the half of the way to the
creating my musical forms and life itself. So, this project is one of the
results."
Kirill: "It's like a way to the absolute, - no matter how close
you come to it you still have half way to go: You just have to stop in a
moment to understand what is you next step."
More detailed information about musiciants and project you can find on their
web pages.
http://www.siver.org - home page of composer
Valery Siver
http://www.motovilo.ru - "Expedition
Zero", "Midway" and other projects of Motovilo Records.
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