Nikita Bugaev - oo Flips (2021)

Being both too vague for concrete music and too substantial for what one might call a 'conventional' music language, oo Flips directs the ear toward the denial. Denial of geographies, events, skills and any attempts to grab the Meaningful out of the hands of Chaos.

Although chaotic is often interpreted as destructive, there is no sense of danger or violence in quiet and discrete sonic elements that are trying to coexist, though in most cases this cooperation means smashing into one another at the breakneck speed. Tiny grains of these sonorous events are being reconstructed constantly, as if there's an intention to face the mirror in every possible formation. So is Nikita Bugaev, who addresses himself as ‘nonmusician’, exploring ways to disconnect electronic music from the digital domain. Due to the short and rather 'raw' nature of tracks, those who listen might change their everyday roles and find themselves inside these seamless moments of magic when unintentional exercises and simply bringing bits of sounds together become music.

If there is an instrument to describe Nikita’s new artwork, it lies in our memory of intimately encountering sound objects like gently leaning on the table with our ear and hearing the whisper within the matter when the surface is being touched.