d-pulse
izhevsk / saint petersburg
One must indeed bury notions such as fatherland, honor, morality, the law, patriotism, and other corpses––so music and the world agree to make peace
Требуется действительно похоронить отечество, честь, нравственность, право, патриотизм и прочих покойников, чтобы музыка согласилась помириться с миром
Aleksandr Blok (Diary Entry, 1918)
Izhevsk, from a musical standpoint, is often associated with the darker side of experimental electronica. D-Pulse fly in the face of that heritage. One Russian magazine speaks of “a cosmic sound, somewhere between retro-futurist disco and intellectual pop.” These musicians differentiate themselves from grim neighbors with “specific ambitions and melodies.”
Who constitutes a specific audience? “We were glad to discover that KCRW in Los Angeles is playing our tracks in high rotation. In LA it’s always +25 Celsius and everything looks different.” Indeed: it looks happy. The right audience has been found.
Not long ago, D-Pulse collaborated with Moscow scholars of both human consciousness and neurology: philosophers and white coats alike. A resulting, meditative soundtrack was written to accompany the investigations of Konstantin V. Anokhin into qualia, which philosophers may define as “the introspectively accessible, phenomenal aspects of our mental lives.” The mysteries of dancefloor hedonism become instead the invisible, silent workings of the human brain.
"Consciousness is a dance of mysterious qualia, we know everything about them, but we can’t explain them. Qualia weave a canvas of subjective reality. Consciousness crumbles without them. In the darkness of a huge Universe, combinations of qualia create worlds of conscious minds. They are colours, sounds, pain, euphoria, the experienced aspect of physical processes. They are an integral part of the history of the Universe, which is right in front of us, and about which we still know little. " - Konstantin V. Anokhin