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Maxim Shalygin documentary film ‘Raising waves’

Sunday, 16 April 2023   |   17:00 - 18:45

Maxim Shalygin documentary film ‘Raising waves’

Maxim Shalygin is one of the most outstanding composers of his generation. This is the chance to get to know Shalygin and his work better. The Ukrainian director Anastasiia Suprun-Zhyvodrova followed the composer for some time for an intriguing, beautifully filmed documentary of over an hour and a half. The focus is on an extensive conversation that musicologist Stanislav Nevmerzytskyi had with the composer in the Netherlands. But the film-makers also traveled with Shalygin to his birthplace in Ukraine. The documentary was filmed before the Russian invasion and completed last year.

Free admission. Within Minimal Music Festival in Amsterdam.

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    documentary 'Raising waves' about composer Maxim Shalygin
Date
Apr 16 2023
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Time
17:00 - 18:45
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Location
Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ
Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ
Piet Heinkade 1, 1019 BR Amsterdam
Website https://www.muziekgebouw.nl
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Composer

Maxim Shalygin

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin

His compositions include chamber, vocal, symphonic, electro-acoustic music, as well as music for theater, ballet and film.
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Dintelstraat 134, 1078 VS Amsterdam
Website https://www.diaconie.com/projecten/onze-projecten/maarten-luther-kerk

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Maxim Shalygin: Khôra

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Location
Gussago, Villa Togni già Averoldi, Italy
Gussago, Villa Togni già Averoldi, Italy
Via Roma 89, 25064 Gussago (Brescia), Italy
Website https://dimorestorichebergamo.it/dimore/villa-togni/

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