ВИКТОР УЛЬЯНИЧ И ЛАДОЗВОННАЯ ИНТЕГРАЛЬНАЯ МУЗЫКАЛЬНО-ТЕОРЕТИЧЕСКАЯ СИСТЕМА (портрет композитора)

Abstract

This article is an interview with Victor Ulyanich — composer, Honored Artist of Russia, founder of the Computer Music Department of the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music, Professor, Ph.D. in History of Arts. The interview preceded by a brief characteristic of the composer's creativity, genre preferences and characterological content of his compositions, including nature and its sacredness, cosmos and human within it, correlations of all things in the Universe, temptation and resistance to it, and Christian ideas. The main attention is focused on a number of aspects of the Ladozvonn integrated musictheoretical system, which was created by the composer. In order to fully reveal the parameters of its functioning, the author conducted an interview with the composer, which fits seamlessly into the outline of the article. In the process of the dialogue, important points were revealed concerning the use of the main tool of the Ladozvonn system — colored rectangular matrices, the concepts of invariance and fractality, and timbre dramaturgy as a functional analogue of the system in harmony. During the dialogue with the musician, the author substantiates the need to introduce such special terms as "ladozvonn" and "ladozvonn tree" into compositional and musicological usage, as well as to refer not to mathematical, but to musical categories in the process of working on a computer work. The composer raises questions about the repertoire of computer music, and in conclusion, expresses an opinion on the state of modern culture and the composer's place in the world.