Stefan Tcherepnin is a composer, improviser, musician and mixed media artist living and working in Kingston, NY and Stockholm, Sweden. He has held residencies at the Theremin Center, Moscow and EMS, Stockholm. He has had solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland; Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich; Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles; Real Fine Arts, NYC. Upcoming exhibitions at Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris (2021) and Le Consortium, Dijon (2021). Musically, he has collaborated with Sergei Tcherepnin, Ezra Buchla, Brian Chase, Lewis Wallace Blanchard III, Peter Evans, and others. He was a member of the microtonal, electro-acoustic folk cult rock band, The Gongs, alongside instrument builder Peter Blasser and composer Clara Latham. Currently, he plays guitar and Sonica (a portable instrument with electronics by Serge) in the NYC-based band Afuma (alongside musician and artist Taketo Shimada) and Stockholm-based duo, PSST (with drummer Paul Sigerhall). His critically acclaimed recording of the late composer and visionary Maryanne Amacher's Petra for Two Pianos (alongside pianist Marianne Schroeder) was released on Blank Forms Editions in 2019. He is a 2020 recipient of the IASPIS grant in Stockholm.
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« I grew up in a musical laboratory. My father, Ivan Tcherepnin, was a composer, musician, educator and electronic music pioneer. Some of my earliest memories involve strange and unidentifiable sounds emanating from my father’s home studio. As a child, I would often sit in his studio with the lights turned out, surrounded by blinking LED’s and electronic apparatuses producing layers upon layers of weird and extraordinary noises, and imagine that I was at the control panel of an interdimensional vessel. At the heart of this seemingly boundless console was a colossal serge modular system. Whenever I turned a knob on the serge, my ship would change course and end up in an entirely unknown sonic universe. »
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from Modulisme Session 035,
released February 14, 2021
Selected from a longer performance & assembled by Philippe Petit
Modulisme (translates Modularism) is a media supporting leftfield Electronic music (giving priority to Modular Synthesis but
not only). Providing ressources/interviews, a radio program aired via 7 antennas, and above all label-like streaming music for you to listen to…...more
supported by 10 fans who also own “Existential Ghost Injection (selected from a longer performance & assembled by Philippe Petit )”
Each of these tracks are skeleton keys that open a portal into another dimension. As such, they are all wonderful in their own right. This release reaches back in time to an age of analog semi-generative ambient exploration. Very much worth a listen. 69dragynz
supported by 9 fans who also own “Existential Ghost Injection (selected from a longer performance & assembled by Philippe Petit )”
Ciani is a master of synthesis. It astounds me that somehow I only recently discovered her through this album which sings to all the best parts of the west coast synth world of its era. nujumi
All proceeds from this hard-hitting industrial techno compilation go to benefit relief organizations helping Ukraine. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 24, 2022
undulating contours manipulates field recordings and sets them in new contexts—against mirage-like melodies that amplify their surrealness. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 21, 2021
From North Carolina, 6wx_o unveils an EP of dazzling analog synth music, with melodies alternately soothing & mysterious. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 22, 2021