Eduard Artemyev

Eduard Nikolaevich Artemyev (Russian Эдуард Николаевич Артемьев; born November 30, 1937 in Novosibirsk ), in the notation Edward Artemiev known, is a Russian composer and musician in the genre of electronic music and film music. Outside Russia, he has made himself especially by soundtracks for popular Russian films such as Solaris, Stalker, or The Barber of Siberia a name.

Life

Artemyev got interested in synthesizers and electronic music in the 1960s, shortly after completing his studies in composition at the Moscow Conservatory, as electronic music creation was still in its infancy. His first compositions he wrote around 1967 with one of the world's first synthesizer models, - the ANS synthesizer of the Soviet engineer and synthesizer pioneer Yevgeny Murzin. This became Artemyev not only for the first electronic musician in the former Soviet Union, but also - alongside artists like Klaus Schulze or Florian Fricke - one of the pioneers of the genre. His notoriety gained Artemyev especially through collaboration with the film director Andrei Tarkovsky mid-1970s. From this period are the soundtracks to Tarkovsky's masterpieces Solaris, Stalker and The Mirror originate. It sat Artemyev - as in his earlier works - less or not at all to the melody, but in a novel electronic sounds that gave his music a specific, atmospheric style that complemented well the stand-alone, " thoughtful " nature of Tarkovsky films.

Since its cooperation with Tarkovsky Artemyev wrote mainly film music, among other things, to films by directors such as Andrei Konchalovsky and Nikita Mikhalkov. Some of the soundtracks were released on the Russian record label Electroshock Records of Edward Artemjews son Artemi, also as electronic composer worked, on CD. In Russia Eduard Artemyev was honored for his film compositions several times, including three times he received the Nika Film Awards.

Soundtracks (selection)