Tatiana Gerasimenok (1992) is a Belarusian multiartist and researcher based in Germany. Her works are experimental and focused on combining several art forms and the latest technologies into one inseparable.
15 What is your favorite instrument as a composer? The human brain.
16 How would you like to play the human brain? I am interested in working with quantum sensors that can instantly digitize visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile and other information from the brain and illustrate it to the audience through holograms and other tools. In this way, the creator rehearses and plays composed and improvised spaces on her or his imagination in front of the audience. Thus, the machine becomes the next surrogate mother of the creator’s imagination.
- from text for Virtual Residency at the Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf
16 How would you like to play the human brain? I am interested in working with quantum sensors that can instantly digitize visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile and other information from the brain and illustrate it to the audience through holograms and other tools. In this way, the creator rehearses and plays composed and improvised spaces on her or his imagination in front of the audience. Thus, the machine becomes the next surrogate mother of the creator’s imagination.
- from text for Virtual Residency at the Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf
Tatiana Gerasimenok was born in Belarus and studied composition at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Yuri Kasparov.
7 What will the art of the future be like? A new kind of pure art is a laboratory creation of the human. The masterful work with biological and genetic material will lead to the emergence of an artificially derived superbrain that no human, created ‘the old way’, can compete with.
She has been selected composer for scholarship & residence at the Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf (Germany, 2020), Künstlerhaus Salzwedel (Germany, 2020), Pyrenees-Mediterranean Creation Residence (Spain, 2020), Künstlerdorf Schöppingen (Germany, 2019). Her works were premiered at the MATA festival (New York/USA, 2019), Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Darmstadt/Germany, 2018).
4 Describe the synesthetic concept of your work. I am interested in working with various senses of the human body. Combining and activating different art forms in one piece reminds me of the different coexisting and equally activated human sensory organs.
Tatiana Gerasimenok has been selected composer for Académie Voix Nouvelles (Royaumont/France, 2017), Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart/Germany, 2017), EBMF International Summer Academy for Young Composers (New York/USA, 2017), Sixth International Young Composers Academy (Tchaikovsky/Russia, 2016). Her works were presented on the Pulsar CISM radio in Montreal (Canada, 2018), exhibition of graphic scores “Sound Graphics” at the National library of Russia in St. Petersburg (Russia, 2018).
11 Tell me about your Instagram Stories music. This is an audiovisual project for which I use my already existing recordings as compositional material. One completed Instagram composition is 240 seconds long, which equates to approximately 16 Instagram Stories uploaded in different weeks. Thereby, the composition appears gradually, in real time and in real life. - Instagram Stories composition by Tatiana Gerasimenok
Tatiana Gerasimenok was a winner of various composition competitions and awards for creating a new work for the Morphosis Ensemble (Barcelona/Spain, 2020), the project “Ad Libitum 2019/20” (Baden-Württemberg/Germany, 2020), “New Music Generation 2019” (Nur Sultan/Kazakhstan, 2019), "No Medici" at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Darmstadt/Germany, 2018), “Samal” (Astana/Kazakhstan, 2018), “Temporality of the Impossible” (Belgium, England, 2018), Seventh International Composition Competition of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Russia, 2015).
12 What about your webcam performances? In this project, I am considering the webcam as an audiovisual and digitizing tool. The performer follows video instructions on a laptop screen; simultaneously, the performance is recorded with a webcam. The video instructions not only regulate the performer’s actions, but also turn the performer’s face into a canvas that reflects the constantly changing screen colors; the reflections from the laptop screen modify the performer’s appearance. Thus, machine and human being treat each other as objects that can be creatively transformed. The finalized performers' recordings are then combined as several windows on one screen. This allows a group of participants to work together remotely and independently—all they need is a laptop with a webcam.
At the beginning of her studies, she took lessons from Brian Ferneyhough, Pierluigi Billone, Mark Andre, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Beat Furrer, Alvin Lucier, Peter Ablinger, Heinz Holliger and others.
