Myroslav Trofymuk
Lviv
Myroslav Trofymuk – Junior aka AЙKTRONER, Master of Classical Philology (Lviv National University) and Digital Marketing (University of Information technology and Management / Rzeszow / Poland) photographer, designer, musician, writer, translator. Founder of the Zemla.Studio and the HOMEPLAYING music & social project.
Engaged in making music since 2004. Musical interests are to be described as combination of improvised electronic music, with some avantgarde academic experiments, sometimes with ambient neoclassical mood, abstract textures with plunderphonics from Ukrainian traditional music, with concrete IDM'ish or dub techno finish. The important component in his musical compositions is experimenting with ambient sounds and human voices.
In 2013, he debuted with the ZONA project, based on dark ambient and Oksana Zabuzhko’s texts.
In 2014, within the HOMEPLAYING project and in collaboration with the artist Yulia Bugaeva, he initiated the City’s Districts Lviv project, a music and visual presentation of the Lviv City. Curated by Myroslav Trofymuk impro meeting sessions ХАТНЄГРАННЯ were happening in Lviv between 2013 and 2018 and the last 99’ session from 2019 was published on Polish independent label Audiomat.
In 2015, Myroslav organized the First International Forum of Independent Initiatives HOMEPLAYING. KITCHEN for the exchange of experience between European (including Polish and Ukrainian) grassroots initiatives. Key figures of Warsaw, Kyiv, Ternopil, Luhansk, Dnipro and Lviv experimental music scenes took part at the event.
In 2017 took part in the Gaude Polonia scholarship program, where initiated his ongoing research and artistic project [IN]DEPENDENCE. Myroslav is working as a graphic designer / marketing consulting specialist with Lviv Philharmonic Hall, INSO-Lviv Orchestra and Lviv Unesco City of Literature Office. He is related to some NGOs in Lviv, such as NURT and FREDRA61. He was co-organising public events with Polish initiative TRZECIA FALA, polish cassette label PIONIERSKA REC., related to Krakow based Music Academy and Krakow Academy of Arts and AudioArt Festival.
Between 2017-2019 Myroslav is taking part at LWOWRO program - Cooperation for Cultural managers from Lviv and Wroclaw. He continued his research of grassroots initiatives in Poland and Ukraine, making interviews with independent publishers, culture managers and CEO of independent businesses.
During 2020-2021 shoots two documentaries PORTRETACIYA, about painter Borys Firtsak and HABITAT, about Vasyl Deresh, the first researcher of Stilsko hill-fort.
Starting 2022 author of CENTRUM MUNDI audio show at Polish Radio for Ukraine, show which is continuing researching the contemporary music scene in Ukraine and Poland.
His diptych album SON/BABYLON XII was being published between 2022-2023 on Zemla.Studio
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