Opensound Quartet Concert "Three Spaces of Sound: Real and Virtual: Phygital Sound"

This cycle is a journey through the music of the 20th–21st centuries, where the string quartet serves not so much as a genre but as a laboratory of ideas: cultural intersections, philosophical contrasts, and new sound technologies. Three concerts form a unified dramaturgy — from historical memory and dialogue of cultures, through the internal polyphony of light and shadow, to the contemporary "phygital" sound in which acoustics interacts with electronics and media reality. Each program is an independent artistic statement, but together they form a multidimensional portrait of an era — with all its diversity and complexity.

The final concert of the cycle addresses the present day — a world where the physical and the digital exist simultaneously. "Phygital" here is not an effect but a new reality of sound, in which the acoustic instrument enters into dialogue with electronics, media, and the urban sonic environment.

From documentary memory and the pulse of time in Steve Reich to post-digital gestures and sound metaphors of contemporary composers — this program explores how music responds to the acceleration, fragmentation, and information noise of modernity. The string quartet transcends its familiar format, becoming a medium between human, technology, and sound.

Program:

• S. Reich — WTC 9/11
• J. Adams — The Book of Alleged Dances
• G. Prokofiev — Breaking Screens
• O. Gudachev — Point of No Return
• A. Druzhinina — Echo of Five Wishes

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