Brinstaar

moscow

If you banish melody, you’re refusing any expression of grand emotions. You’re negating any proper, realist content in your craft

Изгнание мелодии — это отказ от правдивого выражения больших чувств, отказ от содержания, от реализма

Tikhon Khrennikov (1913-2007)

Brinstaar (Mikhail Myasoedov) tends towards a self-declared "spontaneous and improvised" aesthetic, as if commonplace forms of self-expression do very little. Time and again, His recordings are described as a flight from "mature" convention. Even when sketching his very first compositions, for example, he would "play with guitars and pedals, but I couldn’t find the right sound. I'd therefore fall into a long a meditative process until my head was completely switched off. When I was in that [trance-like] state, I'd press Play' and start recording. I'd (only) conjure up a short, intense, and improvised passage, but it would be made in the right (mental or spiritual) state."

The best way forwards is to look back. The most logical approach to creativity is to abandon logic itself and invoke a pre-adult state of whimsical, wandering hope. Brinstaar says: "One of my favorite kinds of 'music' is found by sitting down in some unfamiliar location and listening to whatever's happening around me. A cat's meow, that's music - and so is the humming sound of a fridge."

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