Andrey Kiritchenko

Andrey Kiritchenko

Andrey Kiritchenko, (born in 1976 in Kharkiv, Ukraine), started his musical activity in 1991 as a singer and composer in a rock band. Active in fields of electronic music, since 1996 as a radio dj in weekly radio show "Vilna Zona" dedicated to techno music. In 1997 he was a cofounder of weekly TV Show "Vilna Zona" and later was working as a dj in local Kharkiv's "Deep" club. In 1998 he began making electronic music under "Sidhartha" moniker and in 1999 started "Nihil est excellence / NEX" band to explore interplay between analogue and digital music. However the music of NEX is shifting to musique-concrete, electroacoustic and drone genres. In 2000 Andrey starts Nexsound records - a platform for releasing experimental music from Ukraine. Since 2002 he is working under his own name and exploring microscopic sound design and post-digital production. Since 2004 Andrey is a cross-genre experimental sound artist combined acoustic and digital aesthetics, tiny melodies and noise. So far, under all aliases he released more than 20 albums on labels such as Ad Noiseam, Zeromoon, SPEKK, DTA, Retina-Scan, Thinner/Autoplate, Notype/Nishi, Soulworm, FGLC, WAN, Tiln, Nexsound and has over 20 compilation appearances on labels such as Electroshock, Cheburec, Databloem, NN rec, Luumu, (re)Aktion and others; collaborations with Francisco Lopez, Kim Cascone, Jonas Lindgren, Jeff Surak, Kotra, Mantichora, the Moglass etc., remixed by Frans de Waard, Brian Lavelle, Scanner, Marcus Maeder and 833-45, nominated as "the best Ambient artist" by DasMusik.net in 2002. in 2003 together with Jeff Surak and Jonas Lindgren created Critikal project. Performed live on Ultrahang festival / Hungary, ELKA festival / Beylorussia, Holy Ice, Noise & Fury / Russia, Information Wants to be Free, GARAGE, Being the Future and Club Transmediale / Germany, Ambient, WEF and Unsound festival / Poland, RX:TX / Slovenia, RIXC / Latvia, Detali Zvuku / Ukraine and others.

Andrey Kiritchenko nominated by Qwartz Electronic Music Awards in categories Discovery and Most Promising Artist. Awarded in category Discovery.

External links

* [http://nexsound.org/akir Official site]


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