Igor Stravinsky

The ballet “The Rite of Spring” by Igor Stravinsky is about the awakening and fading of spring, the awakening and fading of all creative powers.

This composition is one of the 27 musical pieces included in NASA's Voyager Golden Record, which was sent beyond the outskirts of our solar system. 

One wonders whether that music is a gift that was “sent” to us, or whether we sent that music to reach unexplored heights... in this eternal sequence of certainty of modernism and uncertainty of postmodernism…

In 2017, the artwork “Stravinsky: Tectonic Layers” was presented at the exhibition dedicated to the 135^th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky.

What new musical instruments should be born in the future?

Will "wood and strings" be able to tell us something else, or will they give way to digital instruments?

Will color and light ever sound?

Stravinsky's Microton Organ really sounds. It sounds with sharp rhythmic tones. It contains both microcircuits and real bells. It is enough to wave hands in front of the Organ, creating any flow of air as the sensors trigger sounds...

This Microtonic Organ symbolizes his orchestra. Or, to be more precise, his attitude to the orchestra. Igor Stravinsky loved to conduct and believed that every composer should do this in order to understand better what he composed.

One can conduct in front of the instrument, wave arms or stick, and the sounds will change. It is quickly layered in sound with hand movement activity, since every time  more sensors get connected.

The Microtonic Organ breathes with timpani, bells, rhythmic instruments that sharpened the spirit of the orchestra for performing "The Rite of Spring".

Stravinsky's piano was often out of tune. And when he was offered to adjust it, he refused, saying that he did not need it for composing music...