Сон

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Сон (Latin transcription: Son, Russian for "dream" or "sleep") , often also written CoH , is the stage name of the Russian computer musician Ivan Pavlov (* 1968, Russia).

Life

Pavlov grew up in Nizhny Novgorod and learned to play classical guitar and piano as a child, as a teenager he played in heavy metal bands and specialized in training as a sound engineer . In 1992 he was already composing his first pieces on computers, at that time still using the tracker software Scream Tracker on MS-DOS .

In 1992 he graduated from Lobachevsky University of Nizhny Novgorod and was there until 1995 as a research assistant working ( "junior researcher"). In 1995 he moved to Sweden as a guest researcher to work at the Royal Technical University of Stockholm and from 1997 to do his doctorate. His research area is noise reduction through barriers.

Pavlov sent a selection of his pieces to musicians he valued, including Mika Vainio from Pan Sonic , who played excerpts from them to Carsten Nicolai during a train journey . Nicolai immediately offered Pavlov a release on his young label Raster-Noton . Pavlov has remained closely associated with the label, and a large part of his work was published there.

Pavlov is the father of two daughters.

Working method

Pavlov works exclusively with computers, since the graphical representation of a sound that is possible there most closely corresponds to his personal ideas. In addition to Coil, he also quotes Giorgio Moroder as well as Kraftwerk , Pil , and heavy metal bands such as Iron Maiden Slayer or Kreator as influences . In spite of his preference for computer-aided composing, he has increasingly worked with the sounds of acoustic instruments in his publications since 2002, especially stringed instruments (guitar, saz , oud ), but also piano sounds.

Collaborations

In addition to his numerous solo releases, Pavlov has worked with the band Coil , John Balance ( Love Uncut ), Little Annie , Richard Chartier ( Chessmachine ) and Cosey Fanny Tutti ( Сон plays Cosey ), and in 2008 he founded the Soisong duo with Peter Christopherson . Pavlov also runs a small label with John Everall called "Wavetrap", whose publications are distributed by Raster-Noton. Independently of this, publications he hand-made regularly appear in very small editions of between seven and thirty copies.

Discography (selection)

  • 1998: Enter Tinnitus
  • 1999: Into Memories Of S-Tone. For Gavin Bryars / 20 'To April 2000
  • 1999: Vox Tinnitus
  • 2000: Love Uncut
  • 2000: Mask Of Birth
  • 2002: Netmörk
  • 2002: Seasons
  • 2002: Москве
  • 2003: Electric Electric
  • 2005: 0397 Post-Pop
  • 2007: Strings
  • 2008: Son Plays Cosey
  • 2010: Z-rated
  • 2011: Iiron
  • 2013: RETRO-2038
  • 2014: TO BEAT

proof

  1. ↑ Self-assessment on his website at the Royal Technical University Stockholm from 1996, Internet Archive ( Memento from January 28, 1999 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b c Susanna: COH - S Is For COH . In: Grooves Magazine , Spring 2003, rarefrequency.com
  3. ↑ Booklet for CD Z-Rated , rotorelief, 2010
  4. ↑ Curriculum Vitae on the website of the Royal Technical University Stockholm from 1998, Internet Archive ( Memento from January 10, 1998 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b c d Chris Sharp: Constructive melancholy. In: The Wire , 272, 2006, p. 10
  6. ↑ Ivan Pavlov / Сон Interview . In: Rare Frequency , broadcast on April 16, 2006 on WZBC (Boston / Massachusetts), quoted from Podcast Special Ed. 08, rarefrequency.com
  7. ↑ secretthirteen.org: Secret Thirteen Interview - CoH | Secret Thirteen - Infinite Music and Art Journal , accessed August 13, 2014
  8. ↑ theofglichpeople.blogspot.de: the offline people: Interview: COH (Ivan Pavlov) , accessed on August 13, 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Сон
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pavlov, Ivan; CoH
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian computer musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1968