Nikolaï Khrust

YouTube video by Николай Хруст Nikolaï Khrust / Basem Al Ashkar (violin, oud, drops). Toutes choses. ½ piece, ½ sound installation

Here’s a mix of my ½ piece, ½ sound installation “Toute choses” (residence in Château de Goutelas), collab. with Basem Al Ashkar who played oud, violin & water drops. Recently we performed Toute choses again in the frameworks of L'Autre Musique concert (St-Étienne).
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First time I viewed and played an ophicleide!

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Last Sunday, first time in my life played clarinet: ‘Fukushima’ by Frédéric Mathevet (and even ‘sight-read’)) in the frameworks of Les Portes Ouvertes of L‘Autre Musique.
In addition recently I read my first lecture in French — in Jean Monnet University.

Hear a mix:
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Basem Al Ashkar, Julia Barysheva, Frédéric Mathevet & Ludivine

Premier concert de L’Autre musique aujourd’hui : ma pièce + celle de Dan Charles Dahan, avec les œuvres de Camille Strappazzon & Aurélie Raidron.

Demain à 16h & 18h : je joue Once upon a time. Fukushima (Frédéric Mathevet), la pièce de Dan, et expo/installation ouverte 10h-18h.

Les musiciens et artistes de L’Autre musique préparent les espaces sur deux étages pour l’exposition et les concerts.
Nous vous attendons demain et après-demain au Cyclorama — 15 rue Henri Gonnard, St-Étienne, de 10h à 18h.
Concerts à 16h et 18h.

Ce week-end, parallèlement à nos concerts, des installations/performances des artistes de L’Autre musique seront présentées à partir de 10h: Stéréotypie d’Aurélie Raidron et Sugar Beet de Camille Strappazzon, ainsi que mon installation sonore interactive.

Cyclorama,15 rue Henri Gonnard, St-Étienne.

Poster

Sept 13: Basem and I play my piece-installation “Toute choses”. Sept 14: my first public clarinet performance in Frédéric Mathevet’s “Once upon a time. Fukushima”. Both days also feature Dan Charles Dahan’s “Sauf la lune”. Also see projects by L’Autre Musique artists — see details in the next posts!

I recently became a member of L‘Autre musique, an association of composers and artists in Saint-Étienne and Saint-Chamond. And now I‘m even doing an internship here. On Sep. 13th and 14th, we will be hosting two concerts as part of the Open Doors event at Cyclorama in Saint-Étienne. Waiting for you!

YouTube video by The Medtner Code Nikolai Medtner – Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 5 | Sergey Neller | The Medtner Code: Episode 1

Nikolai Medtner — an outstanding Russian composer of the first half of the 20th century. Sergey Neller, conductor, pianist and composer launched The Medtner Code — Total Edition, a global project to record and promote dedicated to the complete works of Medtner.
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+1/16 of tone (close to syntonic comma)
–1/12 of tone
+1/8 of tone (most common accidental)
–1/6 of tone.

For the first time made a test template in Dorico with Kh Accidentals font signs. All needed signs are here: and all are being played. No workarounds. No symbols substitutions for microtonality. No pitch bend. Input of any accidental for 3 seconds. I'll end this day in tears of happiness.

GranShaper Test Impro This track is just a test improvisation of my GranShaper synth, combining principles of granular synthesis and waveshaping allowing discover some synergetic effects like ‘granular vocoder’ or ‘gransha

‘Occasional’ improvisation testing possibilities of my GranShaper synth:

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Chris Watt will play my ISM for bass clarinet & live electronics in Groningen Conservatory on the 23 June at 5 PM. Thanks to Valeria Gorokhovskaya and Fie Schouten for promoting my music!

YouTube video by Николай Хруст Nikolaï Khrust. GranShaper project: a synth combining granular synthesis and waveshaping

Updated my GranShaper synth, presented at IRCAM Forum Workshops — and made a demo video:

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Comparing my new symbols for the Kh project with already existing ones.

Christ is rising!

Афиша 24 апреля 2025 г. - Ансамбль солистов «Студия новой музыки» «Московская государственная консерватория имени П. И. Чайковского» - Официальный сайт

Grateful to Russian colleagues which find possibilities to play my music. Studio for New Music will play my shortest piece I wrote for the ensemble in 2013. The concert 24.4 is dedicated to my teacher Vladimir Tarnopolski; the programme consists of his students' music
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Peter Ablinger!

Some impressions from the IRCAM Workshops, where I presented my GranShaper project. Inspiring people & presentations: from low-level prototyping platforms to Unity sound apps; from interactivity with infants to Manoury patch; from old-school impros on Windows XP to site-specific sound installations.

Editing my GranShaper before my presentation of it in the IRCAM workshops. A tiny fragment.

Tomorrow is a final day of our artistic residency together with Basem Al Ashkar at Château de Goutelas near Boën. We’ll be presenting a new work—half piece, half sound installation—that I’ve written especially for Basem, featuring oud, violin, and electronics. Here are some photos from the process!

It's not for nothing that Haas's ‘in Vain’ has been recognised as the best work of the 21st century (although, strictly speaking, it was written in the last year of the 20th).

Under the Budapest Memorandum, the US, UK, and Russia pledged Ukraine security in exchange for giving up nuclear weapons. Now, likely only the UK will honor its promise. I stand with Ukraine—a country under attack, fighting to survive and keep its freedom. In Russia, freedom is in dire straits.

GranShaper synth & hybrid sound synthesis—my article¹ is up on the IRCAM site.
It is a prelude to my lecture at the IRCAM Forum Workshops on March 26–28.

Now you can also hear a 5-minute demo of GranShaper possibilities².

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² soundcloud.com/nikolaykhrus...

Three years of horror.

Where he published this? It's just a screenshot, but of what?

European Parliament member 👇🏽

Ukrainian Poltava under 'Z' rocket attack: an entrance of a residential building was destroyed (and flats above). 3 civilians killed, 10 wounded including a child.

Huge condolences to the loved ones of the victims of the American Airlines and Black Hawk crash!

ECHR issued a positive decision in my case, combining it with 29 similar cases. The Court found that Article 11 of the European Convention (freedom of gathering) had been violated by the Russian state, thereby recognizing our position as substantively valid.

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