Onboard Diary

"Russian composer Eduard Artemyev is one of the fathers of electronic music and of contemporary sound exploration. With numerous prizes and awards on his back, his work, which goes back to the times of the ANS synthesizer (one of the first ones to be made in the 60s), includes the soundtracks of Andrei Tarkovski's Solaris, Mirror and Stalker. His collaboration with Tarkovski is considered one of the most powerful director-composer tandems in the history of film making.

Attatched to the letter we found a squared paper fold, which immediately brought back the echo of the recently deceased Stokhausen's  inscrutable noting systems. It turned out to be, nothing less and nothing more than Solaris' main theme, inscribed in a mysterious coloured circular key. 

Reaching master Artemyev, who nowadays is nearly hermit inside his flat in Moscow (from which he only gets out to keep giving us his amazing soundtracks such as the one he's preparing for a new Nikita Mikhalkov film), has been a delicat work knitted with effort by Julia Blatun, our representative in Russia, who has recently graduated at the School of International Relations - Moscow's MGIMO-. And thanks to the invaluable cooperation of Professor Rafael Llano, one of the world's main experts in Tarkovski, she has gotten us through with each and everyone of the master's collaborators and relatives.  We owe infinitely to her hands and her good performance.