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"Alexander Martovsky Is A Solo Instrumentalist From The Belarusian Capital Of Minsk He Was Born In 1987 And Despite His Young Age Is Already Keen To Position His Work Within The Grand Sphere Of So-Called "classical Crossovers." His Online Writings Are Almost Nonexistent Any Attempt To Find Those Rare Scribbles Will First Reveal His Self-Classifications In Terms Of Numerous Tags Labels And Pigeonholes. Given The Chance For Example To Classify His Work With Generic Tags On One Russian Portal Martovsky Chooses Every Single One Of Them - All The Way From "acid Jazz" To "vocal House."
Such As We'll See Is The Scale Of His Attempted "crossover." Equally Portentous Is A Phrase That He Employs At Various Locations In Order To Introduce His Discography. Translated From Russian It Reads "I Penetrate Existence? With An Echo Of Sincerity Troubling The Threads Of The Spirit."
Understatement From This Point Onwards Seems Unlikely. The Reason For Considering Martovsky's Work At Present Is That He Has Just Published A Four-Track Twenty-Minute Instrumental EP Through Minsk's Sgustok Label. That Organization Has Over The Last Few Years Established A Reputation For A Rather Severe Form Of Minimalism Epitomized By The Sparing Use Of Promo-Texts And A Strict Continuity In Graphic Design. This Visual Policy Is Well Represented By The Artwork Above For Martovsky's Newest Tracks Known Together As "M42."
In Other Words We Might Approach "M42" With A Well-Formed Set Of Expectations. Martovsky However Soon Frustrates Them In Dramatic Form Since The New EP - Through A Thunderous Use Of Layered Guitars - Is Happy To Define Itself As "post Rock." Our Author Chooses A Classification That Sees Itself In Terms Of Departure From A Prior Style It's A Tag That Shuns Tags So To Speak.
The EP Sidesteps An Electronic Heritage Merely In Order To Employ To Bypass A Guitar-Driven Legacy Also. Twice Over Martovksy Adopts Metaphors Of Exodus And Willful If Not Stubborn Movement. That Celebration Of Constant Departure Is Furthered In The Track Listings "Aurora " "M42 " "North Caucasus " And "Moon." The Title Track We Assume Continues A Celestial If Not Cosmic Theme By Invoking The Orion Nebula Known To Some Researchers As M42. That Nebula Is Sometimes Categorized As A "nursery" For New Stars - I.E. A Realm In Which Nascent Celestial Bodies Are Endlessly Coming Into Being.
Put Differently The Renown Of M42 Comes From The Grand Manner In Which Its Bodies Are In Constant Exit From An Interstellar Cloud - And Thus Start To Exist. They Are The Embodiment Of "departure " Being Born As They Leave The Cloud. Departure And Development Become Synonymous. Martovsky's Post-Rock Parallels Are Therefore Easily Justified. He Thinks Of Creative Potential In Terms Of Exit From Or An Extension Of The Highest Extant Points Such As Mountain Peaks Moons And So Forth.
He Hopes Through "classical Crossovers " To Depart From Received Norms And The Benchmarks Thereof. Some Of His Photographs Show The Blurred Activity Of That Creative Divergence. Thankfully There Are One Or Two Instances Of Martovsky Systematizing These Ideas. One Of His Brief Blog Entries Gives Us Some Thoughts He Recently Developed Regarding Rudolf Laban The Father Of International Notation Systems Used To Analyze Dance. That Notation Once Refined Led Laban To See Dance In Terms Of An Obtainable Harmony With One's Surroundings. Noiseless Paper-Based Notation Felt Its Author Could Even Make The Need For A Score Obsolete. Silent Movement Could Move Beyond The Linguistic Or Musical Transmission Of Knowledge It Could Exit - And Therefore Improve Upon - The Constraints Of Audible Categorization. As Martovsky Notes "Laban Believed That The Human Body Could Free Itself From All Previously Learned Steps And Simply Surrender To The Environment." Beyond The Heights Of Any Received Or Classical Norms Of Choreography Therefore Lay A Freedom As Yet Unknown A Kind Of "post-Classical Crossover " Perhaps.
The Promising Transition To Quiet Kinetic Forms Of Environmental Concord Was Applied To Schizophrenics. Laban In Treating Those Troubled Individuals Sought A Healthy Sensation Of Balance Through A Managed System Of "efforts." Between These Opposites Was An Elusive Golden Mean.
Space Direct / Indirect
Weight Strong / Light
Time Sudden Or Quick / Sustained
Flow Bound / Free
The Natural Inclination Of This Terminology Is Not Of Accidental Appeal To Martovsky A Related Environmental Aesthetic Can Be Found Amid His Earlier Releases. Take By Way Of Example The Image Below That Suggests A Potentially Fluid And Fruitful Extension Of Bodily Existence To Broader Quieter Domains. That Hushed Symbolism Is Extended In The Release Title Also No Matter The Problems With Grammar . Martovsky Somewhat Paradoxically Expects That Such Theories Could Be Applied To The "movement" Of Music Too. More Specifically He Hopes That Laban's Classification Could Help His Work Attain A Certain Liberty Either Within Greater Space Or Away From The Narrowness Of Tradition. Quoting Laban He Says "Movement Changes The Body Mind And Spirit Likewise The Mind And Spirit Influence The Body And Its Movement." Here Various Efforts And Forces Operate In Perfect Mutual Confluence.
Movement Changes The Body Mind And Spirit Likewise The Mind And Spirit Influence The Body And Its Movement
Martovsky Sadly Sees Little Evidence Of That Harmonious Acquiescence To One's Natural Non-Confrontational Context On The Existing Web Venues For Slavic Music. Instead Of Cooperation And Community He Encounters Cliquish Arguments And Wordy Often Narrow-Minded Assertions. Everybody Holds Their Ground Grimly Defending A Genre Or Stylistically Narrow Outlook.
Martovsky Despairs "Why The Hell Do People Write This Cr*p On Line? Is It Just Some Form Of Self-Assertion? For A While I Even Turned Off The 'comments' Function On My Site People Wouldn't Write Anything Sensible Anyway. Sometimes Though People Write Stuff That's So Stupid You Just Can't Stop Yourself From Responding..."
That Linguistic To-And-Fro With Each Party Refusing To Concede Leads To Naught. " Argumentative People Will Never Agree With You. It Doesn't Matter Now Much Proof You Offer In Defence Of Your Compositions Those Folks Will Always Insist That They Know How You Should Write Your Music... What Really Bugs Me Is When People Start Their Observations With 'In My Humble Opinion...' What That Actually Means Is 'Hey F***er This Is Beyond Debate And You'll Never Win.'"
For These Reasons Despite The Towering Grandeur Of Martovsky's EP He Continues To Work In Defense Of A Worldview That's Tight-Lipped And Broad-Minded. It Imagines A Realm Where Sympathetic Philosophically Mobile Individuals Maintain A Healthy Modesty In The Face Of Nature's Promise. The Quickest Route To That Outlook Is A Gaze Fixed On The Night Sky As The Sun Goes Down Over Minsk - And M42 Comes Slowly Into View." David MacFadyen Www.Farfrommoscow.Com read less