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This is sad news, though actually you could see it coming. In 2009-2011 when I was writing my Master’s thesis at the SAE Institute, there were five (or even more) online collaboration portals for musicians,
Andrei Tarkovsky Sculpting in Time Art affirms all that is best in man—hope, faith, love, beauty, prayer… What he dreams of and what he hopes for… When someone who doesn’t know how to swim is thrown
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The photo features Rhythm-2, a vintage Russian electronic musical synthesizer. One of my good friends (his name is Vladimir) recently brought it to me to play, and I was over the moon. This model was
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The “word cloud” generated today on FB, perfectly sums up 2015 for me — this is how my year passed. I really like such text games. 🙂
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There is currently a contest held on the soundhunters.tv website: “Zoolook Revisited” is a tribute album being produced to celebrate more than 30 years that have passed after the release of Jean-Michel Jarre’s “Zoolook” album. Six contest
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Information about Argonika is gradually being moved to this website. (I have already done the same on Facebook by merging Argonika’s page with my own). The reason is that I want to collect all
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I like to work with noises. I find that noises are the ideal tools for drawing veils. And, despite the fact that what I’m currently writing is not “Amber Sketches”, the Veil theme remains
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The very first sketches, which later became part of the «Amber Sketches», were written in the second half of the 90s, when I studied at the Theremin Center (Moscow Conservatory). I attended Andrei
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There are several ways to contact me. Please see the Elena Stepanova: Links section in the right column if you want to connect with me on social media, music collaboration websites,