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Ales Tsurko
12+ albums
experimentalmodern classicalcontemporary classicalelectronicidm
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Ales Tsurko (the full name is Aliaksandr Uladzimiravich Tsurko) is a belarusian self-taught composer and creative programmer. He was born on March 16, 1987 in Minsk. He graduated from music school's accordion class in 2000 and percussion class in 2005. Ales composed music from early childhood, but started writing electronic music only at 15, when he got a computer. In 2011 he founded the Society For The Development Of New Music, the main purpose of which was to develop and promote contemporary classical music. The members was composers and teachers of the Belarusian State Academy of Music: Kanstantsin Yaskou, Maksim Kruhly and Olga Podhayskaya. He also founded the Belarus Modern Ensemble and initiated the Belarus Modern Orchestra, both of which specialized in contemporary classical music. Between 2012 and 2014 he was the sound engineer at an independent recording studio. Ales uses his own software and he mixes algorithmic composition, contemporary composition, electroacoustic, minimalism and new romanticism aesthetics with todays non-academic genres such as shoegaze, ambient and post-rock. His activity is not only the music, but also interactive art and new media forms. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
