Presented at the Outline Festival in 2025, this new iteration of the duo’s sculptural project integrates digital aesthetics into a dense forest landscape.

The towering installation features polygonal mirrored modules mounted on industrial scaffolding, cutting through the darkness with intense red and cold white light. During the day, the reflective surfaces camouflage the structure by mirroring the surrounding trees and sky.

At night, the installation transforms into a dynamic stage for the artists' audiovisual live performance, merging architectural scale with spatial electronic sound.

PSR2 illuminated in red and white among the trees at Outline, 2025
Mirrored modules and scaffolding reflecting the sky at Outline
A performer in a red costume beside the mirrored PSR2 structure at Outline
Full Project

PSR J1032-5804 is a ten-metre multimedia sculpture that manifests as a digital glitch torn out of a screen and placed directly into physical space.

Its angular mirrored structure and fragmented screen imagery are developed from reworked radio signals associated with an unusual astrophysical pulsar. As visitors move around the installation, reflective panels mix distorted live camera feeds with the surrounding city environment.

This physical object also serves as the foundation for an eponymous music album and live AV performance, translating raw pulsar data into rigid electronic rhythms.

PSR J1032–5804 / 2024 / view 4
PSR J1032–5804 / 2024 / view 6
PSR J1032-5804 · original release artwork
Full Project

Solid Revolver places visitors inside a massive twenty-metre cylindrical structure filled with a rotating, immersive cloud of intense light and spatial sound.

The installation’s form shifts constantly, simulating the behavior of charged particles caught in the magnetic trap of a collider. Built with a circular truss system and stretched triangular screen-sails, the piece creates a stark contrast between blinding white flashes and deep red hues.

The surrounding light becomes most intense at the center, offering a physical manifestation of the duo's accompanying studio album release.

Solid Revolver / 2024 / view 1
Solid Revolver / 2024 / view 2
solid revolver (install version) · original release artwork
Full Project

Umbra functions as an interactive laser and sound installation where human shadows act as direct musical instruments.

The piece redefines spatial interaction by projecting a ghostly, emerald-green laser plane across a darkened, smoke-filled corridor. As visitors cross this horizontal field of coherent light, floating translucent spheres trigger specific sonic notes.

The physical movement of the human body directly alters the generative audio composition, turning the audience's unpredictable choreography into a continuous, real-time electronic performance.

Umbra: a visitor inside the green laser environment
Umbra laser plane
umbra: documentation frame at 7 seconds
Full Project

A vortex-shaped media sculpture in the Bali jungle. The Cone brings light and geometry into the riverside landscape of Aurora Media Park.

Light projections meet reflections on the river. Visitors crossing the bridge activate changing ripple effects, making their passage part of the installation.

The Cone is part of the permanent outdoor art trail at Nuanu. The work sits within the park’s landscape of trees, water and pedestrian bridges.

the cone: documentation frame at 2 seconds
the cone: documentation frame at 5 seconds
the cone: documentation frame at 8 seconds
Full Project

A three-dimensional spiral of rattan and light at Aurora Media Park. Hand-woven by Balinese artisans, Helix Root glows from within as LEDs pulse red, purple and silver.

Created with DELIVERED., the installation combines a hand-woven structure with programmed LED light. The spiral’s material surface remains part of the work as its illumination changes.

Helix Root is one of the permanent installations along Nuanu’s outdoor art trail. Its illuminated, branching form connects the sculptural object to the surrounding jungle.

helix root: documentation frame at 2 seconds
helix root: documentation frame at 4 seconds
helix root: documentation frame at 6 seconds
Full Project

Laser Meadows invites visitors to walk barefoot through the slopes of an artificial valley, completely transformed by the optical phenomena of abstract Laser Lumia patterns.

Coherent laser beams are refracted into organic, water-like textures that slowly crawl across the landscape. These luminous waves and loops move in strict synchronization with the surrounding ambient soundscape, turning a highly technological environment into a meditative place to wander.

The spatial audio composition was subsequently recorded and released as a dedicated studio album.

Refracted laser patterns moving across the landscape at Laser Meadows
Visitors beneath the Laser Lumia projections at Laser Meadows
Laser Meadows · original release artwork
Full Project

Set against the backdrop of a ruined architectural structure, this site-specific live performance summons a massive light anomaly among classic brick columns.

Heavy smoke catches intense flashes and precise laser beams that bend through the darkness before gathering into a towering tetrahedron. Hovering above the water's surface, the geometric light form creates perfect reflections, expanding the spatial volume of the site.

The performance’s sonic progression, built on deep electronic frequencies, was captured and released as a standalone music album.

Tetrahedron / Noch Sveta festival, Gatchina / 2023 / view 1
Tetrahedron / Noch Sveta festival, Gatchina / 2023 / view 3
Tetrahedron · original release artwork
Full Project

Situated within the internal courtyard of a classical circular rotunda, Aftercolor explores the sensory transition between radically opposite states.

The installation initially presents a meditative, hypnotic red circle floating silently above the viewer's head. Without warning, this static state shatters into a sudden, aggressive collision of sharp, fragmented laser beams and heavy, low-frequency bass.

This intense spatial and sonic deconstruction forces the audience to physically experience the limits of perception, an approach deeply reflected in the accompanying album.

Visitors beneath red laser beams in the Academy courtyard
Aftercolor red laser installation within the circular courtyard
Full Project

On July 23, 2022, Broken Composers collaborated with dreamlaser to present a theatrical audiovisual performance on the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater.

This special event for the Intervals festival merged live electronic music with intense spatial light choreography. The performance featured figures clad in total red costumes and futuristic masks, navigating claustrophobic stage spaces while interacting with glowing spheres.

The combination of aggressive physical acting and relentless laser geometry created a dense, ritualistic atmosphere.

Broken Composers: Prickly & Slick and Chaos Sq
AV Solo Live - Intervals festival showcase [The New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater, St. Petersburg] / 2022 / view 1
AV Solo Live - Intervals festival showcase [The New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater, St. Petersburg] / 2022 / view 2
Full Project

Portal #00FF00 is a thirty-minute immersive audiovisual show staged on a wooden bridge crossing a remote forest swamp.

The core concept injects the pure digital color code #00FF00 into a wild, untamed natural landscape. Using dense smoke and precise spatial lasers, the artists transformed the bridge into a glowing architectural tunnel.

As performers physically interacted with the harsh green light planes and heavy industrial-organic soundscapes, the surrounding natural environment was temporarily overwritten by a highly structured electronic architecture.

Portal #00FF00: the laser-lit bridge and forest seen from above
A performer holding the vertical poles within the green laser plane
A hand interrupting the green laser light at Portal #00FF00
Full Project

Staged within the brutalist industrial architecture of the Werk venue, this audiovisual live set was part of the night program for the 2021 NUR media art festival in Kazan.

The performance immersed the space in a thick, claustrophobic fog pierced by deep red coherent light. Broken Composers delivered a highly physical set, contrasting live controller manipulation with an aggressive plastic performance by a figure concealed in a faceless mask.

The harsh electronic textures and blinding laser fields created an atmosphere of pure tension and sonic release.

A masked performer and laser projections during the NUR Werk live set
A blue laser field over the audience at NUR Werk
Electronic instruments and sound controls at NUR Werk
Full Project

During this 2021 live audiovisual performance in Moscow's ArchiLoft, Broken Composers engineered a stark collision between complex generative visual systems and raw physical action.

The space was dominated by intricate, red vector laser calligraphy, forming geometric grids and sweeping waves across the dark room. Amidst this precise digital architecture, a performer wearing a spiked mask engaged in unpredictable physical interactions with a glowing sphere.

The resulting show perfectly balanced calculated electronic rhythms with volatile human energy.

ArchiLoft 2021 / ArchiLoft / 2021 / view 1
ArchiLoft 2021 / ArchiLoft / 2021 / view 2
ArchiLoft 2021 / ArchiLoft / 2021 / view 3
Full Project

In April 2020, Broken Composers joined Nikita Zabelin’s authoritative Resonance Moscow radio show for a special live broadcast on Megapolis 89.5 FM.

Recorded at Qweex in April 2020, the audiovisual performance was made for Resonance Moscow on Megapolis 89.5 FM. The radio archive lists the programme as Resonance 231, broadcast on 18 April 2020.

The video documents the artists performing with their instruments and optical projections. The recording preserves the live relationship between sound, light and physical gesture.

Broken Composers performing beneath blue analog laser projections at Qweex
A performer, refractive object and laser beam in the Resonance recording
Full Project

This 2020 audiovisual live performance took place during the collaborative Slwdnc and Yoyaku showcase at the Mutabor club in Moscow.

The stage was enveloped in a deep, monochromatic blue atmosphere, heavily relying on live video projection and stark lighting. The duo utilized physical gestures with signal flags, which were magnified into towering, distorted silhouettes across the main central screen.

This approach effectively turned the performers' bodily movements and shadows into a direct visual instrument, driving the hypnotic electronic groove.

Blue projection and a flag-bearing performer at Slwdnc × Yoyaku, Mutabor
A flag silhouette against red projections at Slwdnc × Yoyaku
Red laser light and flag gestures at Mutabor
Full Project

Broken Composers delivered a massive nighttime audiovisual performance at the 2019 Signal festival, held in the expansive Nikola-Lenivets art park.

The visual centerpiece of the live set was a gigantic inflatable spherical dome suspended directly above the stage and the audience. Projected with cold, organic blue generative textures, this floating lens resembled a glowing digital organism hovering in the dark forest.

The heavy, mid-tempo electronic soundscape echoed through the trees, perfectly aligning with the festival's deep connection to nature and architecture.

AV Live - "Signal" festival [Art-park Nikola-Lenivets, Kaluga region, Russia] / 2019 / view 1
AV Live - "Signal" festival [Art-park Nikola-Lenivets, Kaluga region, Russia] / 2019 / view 2
AV Live - "Signal" festival [Art-park Nikola-Lenivets, Kaluga region, Russia] / 2019 / view 3
Full Project

Broken Composers participated in the 2019–2020 edition of The Wrong Biennale, including Epicentre, a digital-art exhibition presented across the Valencian Community in Spain.

The Blue Head combines fragmented 3D imagery with electronic sound. A blue digital face splits, multiplies and reforms across the screen; its changing geometry becomes the material of the audiovisual work.

Epicentre brought together 420 works by 135 artists, presented across 21 institutions and municipalities between 1 November 2019 and 1 March 2020. The exhibition was organised, curated and produced by David Quiles Guilló in collaboration with Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana and Centre del Carme.

Still from The Blue Head: fragmented blue digital face
Still from The Blue Head: multiple blue faces overlapping
Full Project

Performing at the fifth edition of the Fields festival at Moscow's Mutabor, the artists presented a set dedicated to inventive, hybrid music.

The stage was submerged in a thick, ritualistic red glow as figures in pointed ceremonial hoods manipulated a unique array of acoustic objects. Live play on a classical clarinet and flute was combined with prepared percussion and a resonating crystal bowl.

These organic, acoustic vibrations were immediately digitized and woven into a dense, experimental electronic landscape, erasing the line between archaic ritual and modern techno.

AV Live - "Fields" festival [Mutabor club, Moscow] / 2019 / view 1
AV Live - "Fields" festival [Mutabor club, Moscow] / 2019 / view 2
AV Live - "Fields" festival [Mutabor club, Moscow] / 2019 / view 3
Full Project

The duo executed a highly unique, site-specific audiovisual performance for the 2019 Anhydrite media-art biennale, located deep inside the Barbarossa Cave in Thuringia, Germany.

The natural underground environment dictated a completely different aesthetic approach. Clad in a total-blue enclosed suit and mask adorned with metallic artifacts, the performer navigated the ancient stone vaults.

The artists utilized the cave's massive natural reverberation to amplify their atmospheric soundscapes, creating a claustrophobic yet expansive dialogue between digital noise and geology.

Performance still: Broken Composers and analog laser projection at Anhydrite
A blue-suited masked performer on the stairs inside Barbarossa Cave at Anhydrite, 2019
Full Project

On April 13, 2019, the duo performed at the Intervals festival’s experimental music showcase, held in the small hall of Milo Concert Hall.

The set heavily featured their early approach to acoustic manipulation. The stage was covered with metallic chains, heavy springs, and custom-built noise boxes.

While a performer in a black mask extracted harsh, industrial textures using a microphone and physical force, the second member processed these live signals into a rhythmic techno foundation, all illuminated by sharp, piercing blue laser beams cutting through the smoke.

AV Live - "Intervals" festival [Milo club, Nizhny Novgorod] / 2019 / view 1
AV Live - "Intervals" festival [Milo club, Nizhny Novgorod] / 2019 / view 2
Broken Composers live at Intervals in 2019
Full Project

Broken Composers joined the Genesis — Ultimae Records Night at the Module club in Moscow, bringing their signature audiovisual intensity to an event focused on ambient and midtempo music.

The live performance was characterized by a deep, hypnotic soundscape perfectly synchronized with fluid, plasma-like blue video textures. The generative visual content engulfed the stage, throwing the artists' silhouettes into sharp relief.

This set demonstrated the duo’s ability to slow down their electronic rhythms while maintaining immense spatial and atmospheric pressure.

Broken Composers — project video still
Full Project

The duo's performance at the Monowave concert inside Moscow’s Powerhouse club showcased their early reliance on physical, acoustic objects.

Operating from a two-tiered instrument rack bathed in stark red and ultramarine light, the artists utilized heavy metal chains suspended over microphones and a glowing crystal glass to generate organic resonance.

These raw acoustic signals were captured live and immediately processed through hardware electronics, creating a dense, layered sonic environment that accompanied the abstract, fluid light projections filling the small room.

Monowave — performance documentation
Monowave — performance documentation
Monowave — performance documentation
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Taking their audiovisual experiments abroad, the artists delivered a striking laser and electronic music performance at Ääniwalli, Helsinki’s premier industrial techno venue.

The harsh, utilitarian architecture of the Finnish club was completely transformed by thick, caustic planes of blue laser light. These sweeping digital waves traced the concrete walls and ceilings, reacting in real-time to the duo's heavy electronic live set.

The immersive light architecture created an overwhelming sense of spatial dislocation within the brutalist club environment.

Ääniwalli — performance documentation
Ääniwalli — performance documentation
Ääniwalli — performance documentation
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This early performance accompanied the opening of Kirill Rave’s solo exhibition, Celestial Structures, at Kulttuuritalo Virta in Imatra, Finland.

The unique stage setup featured the artists dressed in bright red coveralls behind a clinical white laboratory table. Instead of standard synthesizers, the table was loaded with acoustic objects: recorders, heavy metal springs on wooden resonators, chains, files, and chisels.

The artists essentially performed an electroacoustic autopsy, extracting brutal industrial sounds and transforming them into a structured electronic live set.

AV Live - "Celestial structures" exhibition [Kirill Rave]: [Kulttuuritalo Virta, Finland, Imatra] / 2018 / view 1
Full Project

Preserved in an archive session titled "Live Electronics" and supported by the curators of the Fields festival, this 2018 broadcast captures the duo in a state of pure studio improvisation.

Bathed entirely in deep violet and blue lighting, the artists manipulated hardware synthesizers and live effect chains without the pressure of a club audience.

The recording documents the raw, unpolished genesis of their signature sound, focusing heavily on atmospheric modular textures, rhythmic instability, and the fluid interplay between the two electronic musicians.

Live Electronics / SoulLiveFM: original video cover
Full Project

Performing at the birthday celebration for Moscow's underground Live8 club, the artists delivered a raw, hardware-driven live set in a highly intimate setting.

The visual focus of the performance was a singular, intensely bright blue laser beam that pierced through the dense fog directly from the level of their equipment table.

Surrounded by synthesizers, cables, and guitar effect pedals, the duo constructed a relentless, lo-fi electronic soundscape. The blinding light and heavy smoke reduced their physical presence to mere silhouettes controlling the machinery.

Broken Composers — project video still
Full Project

Billed specifically as an audiovisual live act, Broken Composers performed at the Neptune party inside Moscow’s historic Squat 3/4 venue in May 2018.

The set was defined by an extreme contrast between classical instrumentation and harsh industrial noise. While one performer played delicate, breathy melodies on a traditional transverse flute, the other aggressively struck heavy metal objects and chains with a hammer.

This abrasive electroacoustic collision took place within the venue's tiled, former bathhouse walls, bathed in a cold, unyielding blue spotlight.

Neptune — performance documentation
Neptune — performance documentation
Neptune — performance documentation
Full Project

Returning to Squat 3/4 for ARTLihoradka vol.2, the duo shared a cross-disciplinary lineup that included prominent figures of Moscow conceptualism, such as Pavel Pepperstein.

The performance represented a striking collision between traditional contemporary art circles and raw, underground audiovisual noise. Cloaked in patterned hoods and heavily shadowed lighting, the artists operated laptops and hardware controllers to summon a dense, overwhelming wall of electronic sound.

The set cemented their reputation for bringing uncompromising club aesthetics into art spaces.

ARTLihoradka — performance documentation
ARTLihoradka — performance documentation
Full Project

This early 2018 live appearance at the Zagranica underground club in Moscow captures the foundational elements of the Broken Composers' aesthetic.

The extremely intimate, low-ceilinged space was saturated in a heavy, aggressive red glow. The visual documentation shows a shadowy figure manipulating live electronic hardware, while another plays a transverse flute, merging organic breath with distorted synthetic frequencies.

The claustrophobic environment and raw energy of the performance highlight the duo’s roots in the city's uncompromising DIY electronic music scene.

Zagranica — performance documentation
Zagranica — performance documentation
Zagranica — performance documentation
Full Project

Broken Rooms originated as a generative audio installation for Kirill Rave's exhibition at the 2017 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.

Field recordings were passed through a network of over 300 random generators, forming a self-evolving composition. At the opening, Vitali Yu and Kirill Rave began to play live alongside this system. That spontaneous encounter became the inception of the Broken Composers studio.

Anchored by a striking red polygonal glitch-sculpture of a head, this generative work established the digital DNA and conceptual rigor for all their future projects.

Broken Composers performing with flute and electronics at KultProekt in 2017
Angular red digital portrait by Kirill Rave
Broken Rooms · original release artwork
Full Project

PSR2 / Outline Festival

2025

Installation / Live Performance

Presented at the Outline Festival in 2025, this new iteration of the duo’s sculptural project integrates digital aesthetics into a dense forest landscape.

PSR2 illuminated in red and white among the trees at Outline, 2025

The towering installation features polygonal mirrored modules mounted on industrial scaffolding, cutting through the darkness with intense red and cold white light. During the day, the reflective surfaces camouflage the structure by mirroring the surrounding trees and sky.

Mirrored modules and scaffolding reflecting the sky at Outline

At night, the installation transforms into a dynamic stage for the artists' audiovisual live performance, merging architectural scale with spatial electronic sound.

A performer in a red costume beside the mirrored PSR2 structure at Outline
Full Project

PSR J1032–5804

2024

Installation / Live Performance / Music Album

PSR J1032-5804 is a ten-metre multimedia sculpture that manifests as a digital glitch torn out of a screen and placed directly into physical space.

PSR J1032–5804 / 2024 / view 4

Its angular mirrored structure and fragmented screen imagery are developed from reworked radio signals associated with an unusual astrophysical pulsar. As visitors move around the installation, reflective panels mix distorted live camera feeds with the surrounding city environment.

PSR J1032–5804 / 2024 / view 6

This physical object also serves as the foundation for an eponymous music album and live AV performance, translating raw pulsar data into rigid electronic rhythms.

PSR J1032–5804 / 2024 / view 12
PSR J1032-5804 · original release artwork
Full Project

Solid Revolver / Planeta K-30

2024

Installation / Music Release

Solid Revolver places visitors inside a massive twenty-metre cylindrical structure filled with a rotating, immersive cloud of intense light and spatial sound.

Solid Revolver / 2024 / view 1

The installation’s form shifts constantly, simulating the behavior of charged particles caught in the magnetic trap of a collider. Built with a circular truss system and stretched triangular screen-sails, the piece creates a stark contrast between blinding white flashes and deep red hues.

Solid Revolver / 2024 / view 2

The surrounding light becomes most intense at the center, offering a physical manifestation of the duo's accompanying studio album release.

Solid Revolver / 2024 / view 3
solid revolver (install version) · original release artwork
Full Project

Umbra

2024

Installation

Umbra functions as an interactive laser and sound installation where human shadows act as direct musical instruments.

Umbra: a visitor inside the green laser environment

The piece redefines spatial interaction by projecting a ghostly, emerald-green laser plane across a darkened, smoke-filled corridor. As visitors cross this horizontal field of coherent light, floating translucent spheres trigger specific sonic notes.

Umbra laser plane

The physical movement of the human body directly alters the generative audio composition, turning the audience's unpredictable choreography into a continuous, real-time electronic performance.

umbra: documentation frame at 7 seconds
Full Project

The Cone / Aurora Media Park

2024

Installation

A vortex-shaped media sculpture in the Bali jungle. The Cone brings light and geometry into the riverside landscape of Aurora Media Park.

the cone: documentation frame at 2 seconds

Light projections meet reflections on the river. Visitors crossing the bridge activate changing ripple effects, making their passage part of the installation.

the cone: documentation frame at 5 seconds

The Cone is part of the permanent outdoor art trail at Nuanu. The work sits within the park’s landscape of trees, water and pedestrian bridges.

the cone: documentation frame at 8 seconds
Full Project

Helix Root / Aurora Media Park

2024

Installation

A three-dimensional spiral of rattan and light at Aurora Media Park. Hand-woven by Balinese artisans, Helix Root glows from within as LEDs pulse red, purple and silver.

helix root: documentation frame at 2 seconds

Created with DELIVERED., the installation combines a hand-woven structure with programmed LED light. The spiral’s material surface remains part of the work as its illumination changes.

helix root: documentation frame at 4 seconds

Helix Root is one of the permanent installations along Nuanu’s outdoor art trail. Its illuminated, branching form connects the sculptural object to the surrounding jungle.

helix root: documentation frame at 6 seconds
Full Project

Laser Meadows / NUR Festival

2023

Installation / Music Album

Laser Meadows invites visitors to walk barefoot through the slopes of an artificial valley, completely transformed by the optical phenomena of abstract Laser Lumia patterns.

Refracted laser patterns moving across the landscape at Laser Meadows

Coherent laser beams are refracted into organic, water-like textures that slowly crawl across the landscape. These luminous waves and loops move in strict synchronization with the surrounding ambient soundscape, turning a highly technological environment into a meditative place to wander.

Visitors beneath the Laser Lumia projections at Laser Meadows

The spatial audio composition was subsequently recorded and released as a dedicated studio album.

A visitor within green laser patterns across the curved terrain at URAM park
Laser Meadows · original release artwork
Full Project

Tetrahedron / Nights of Light Festival

2023

Live Performance / Music Album

Set against the backdrop of a ruined architectural structure, this site-specific live performance summons a massive light anomaly among classic brick columns.

Tetrahedron / Noch Sveta festival, Gatchina / 2023 / view 1

Heavy smoke catches intense flashes and precise laser beams that bend through the darkness before gathering into a towering tetrahedron. Hovering above the water's surface, the geometric light form creates perfect reflections, expanding the spatial volume of the site.

Tetrahedron / Noch Sveta festival, Gatchina / 2023 / view 3

The performance’s sonic progression, built on deep electronic frequencies, was captured and released as a standalone music album.

Tetrahedron / Noch Sveta festival, Gatchina / 2023 / view 4
Tetrahedron · original release artwork
Full Project

Aftercolor / Academy of Arts

2022

Installation / Music Release

Situated within the internal courtyard of a classical circular rotunda, Aftercolor explores the sensory transition between radically opposite states.

Visitors beneath red laser beams in the Academy courtyard

The installation initially presents a meditative, hypnotic red circle floating silently above the viewer's head. Without warning, this static state shatters into a sudden, aggressive collision of sharp, fragmented laser beams and heavy, low-frequency bass.

Aftercolor red laser installation within the circular courtyard

This intense spatial and sonic deconstruction forces the audience to physically experience the limits of perception, an approach deeply reflected in the accompanying album.

View of Aftercolor inside the Academy courtyard
Full Project

Chaos Sq. Live / Alexandrinsky Theater

2022

Live Performance

On July 23, 2022, Broken Composers collaborated with dreamlaser to present a theatrical audiovisual performance on the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater.

Broken Composers: Prickly & Slick and Chaos Sq

This special event for the Intervals festival merged live electronic music with intense spatial light choreography. The performance featured figures clad in total red costumes and futuristic masks, navigating claustrophobic stage spaces while interacting with glowing spheres.

AV Solo Live - Intervals festival showcase [The New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater, St. Petersburg] / 2022 / view 1

The combination of aggressive physical acting and relentless laser geometry created a dense, ritualistic atmosphere.

AV Solo Live - Intervals festival showcase [The New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater, St. Petersburg] / 2022 / view 2
Full Project

Portal #00FF00 / Signal Festival

2021

Live Performance

Portal #00FF00 is a thirty-minute immersive audiovisual show staged on a wooden bridge crossing a remote forest swamp.

Portal #00FF00: the laser-lit bridge and forest seen from above

The core concept injects the pure digital color code #00FF00 into a wild, untamed natural landscape. Using dense smoke and precise spatial lasers, the artists transformed the bridge into a glowing architectural tunnel.

A performer holding the vertical poles within the green laser plane

As performers physically interacted with the harsh green light planes and heavy industrial-organic soundscapes, the surrounding natural environment was temporarily overwritten by a highly structured electronic architecture.

A hand interrupting the green laser light at Portal #00FF00
Full Project

Live / NUR Festival

2021

Live Performance

Staged within the brutalist industrial architecture of the Werk venue, this audiovisual live set was part of the night program for the 2021 NUR media art festival in Kazan.

A masked performer and laser projections during the NUR Werk live set

The performance immersed the space in a thick, claustrophobic fog pierced by deep red coherent light. Broken Composers delivered a highly physical set, contrasting live controller manipulation with an aggressive plastic performance by a figure concealed in a faceless mask.

A blue laser field over the audience at NUR Werk

The harsh electronic textures and blinding laser fields created an atmosphere of pure tension and sonic release.

Electronic instruments and sound controls at NUR Werk
Full Project

Live / ArchiLoft

2021

Live Performance

During this 2021 live audiovisual performance in Moscow's ArchiLoft, Broken Composers engineered a stark collision between complex generative visual systems and raw physical action.

ArchiLoft 2021 / ArchiLoft / 2021 / view 1

The space was dominated by intricate, red vector laser calligraphy, forming geometric grids and sweeping waves across the dark room. Amidst this precise digital architecture, a performer wearing a spiked mask engaged in unpredictable physical interactions with a glowing sphere.

ArchiLoft 2021 / ArchiLoft / 2021 / view 2

The resulting show perfectly balanced calculated electronic rhythms with volatile human energy.

ArchiLoft 2021 / ArchiLoft / 2021 / view 3
Full Project

Live / Resonance Moscow

2020

Live Performance

In April 2020, Broken Composers joined Nikita Zabelin’s authoritative Resonance Moscow radio show for a special live broadcast on Megapolis 89.5 FM.

Broken Composers performing beneath blue analog laser projections at Qweex

Recorded at Qweex in April 2020, the audiovisual performance was made for Resonance Moscow on Megapolis 89.5 FM. The radio archive lists the programme as Resonance 231, broadcast on 18 April 2020.

A performer, refractive object and laser beam in the Resonance recording

The video documents the artists performing with their instruments and optical projections. The recording preserves the live relationship between sound, light and physical gesture.

Full Project

Live / Slwdnc × Yoyaku

2020

Live Performance

This 2020 audiovisual live performance took place during the collaborative Slwdnc and Yoyaku showcase at the Mutabor club in Moscow.

Blue projection and a flag-bearing performer at Slwdnc × Yoyaku, Mutabor

The stage was enveloped in a deep, monochromatic blue atmosphere, heavily relying on live video projection and stark lighting. The duo utilized physical gestures with signal flags, which were magnified into towering, distorted silhouettes across the main central screen.

A flag silhouette against red projections at Slwdnc × Yoyaku

This approach effectively turned the performers' bodily movements and shadows into a direct visual instrument, driving the hypnotic electronic groove.

Red laser light and flag gestures at Mutabor
Full Project

Live / Signal Festival

2019

Live Performance

Broken Composers delivered a massive nighttime audiovisual performance at the 2019 Signal festival, held in the expansive Nikola-Lenivets art park.

AV Live - "Signal" festival [Art-park Nikola-Lenivets, Kaluga region, Russia] / 2019 / view 1

The visual centerpiece of the live set was a gigantic inflatable spherical dome suspended directly above the stage and the audience. Projected with cold, organic blue generative textures, this floating lens resembled a glowing digital organism hovering in the dark forest.

AV Live - "Signal" festival [Art-park Nikola-Lenivets, Kaluga region, Russia] / 2019 / view 2

The heavy, mid-tempo electronic soundscape echoed through the trees, perfectly aligning with the festival's deep connection to nature and architecture.

AV Live - "Signal" festival [Art-park Nikola-Lenivets, Kaluga region, Russia] / 2019 / view 3
Full Project

The Blue Head / The Wrong Biennale

2019

Live Performance

Broken Composers participated in the 2019–2020 edition of The Wrong Biennale, including Epicentre, a digital-art exhibition presented across the Valencian Community in Spain.

Still from The Blue Head: fragmented blue digital face

The Blue Head combines fragmented 3D imagery with electronic sound. A blue digital face splits, multiplies and reforms across the screen; its changing geometry becomes the material of the audiovisual work.

Still from The Blue Head: multiple blue faces overlapping

Epicentre brought together 420 works by 135 artists, presented across 21 institutions and municipalities between 1 November 2019 and 1 March 2020. The exhibition was organised, curated and produced by David Quiles Guilló in collaboration with Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana and Centre del Carme.

Full Project

Live / Fields Festival

2019

Live Performance

Performing at the fifth edition of the Fields festival at Moscow's Mutabor, the artists presented a set dedicated to inventive, hybrid music.

AV Live - "Fields" festival [Mutabor club, Moscow] / 2019 / view 1

The stage was submerged in a thick, ritualistic red glow as figures in pointed ceremonial hoods manipulated a unique array of acoustic objects. Live play on a classical clarinet and flute was combined with prepared percussion and a resonating crystal bowl.

AV Live - "Fields" festival [Mutabor club, Moscow] / 2019 / view 2

These organic, acoustic vibrations were immediately digitized and woven into a dense, experimental electronic landscape, erasing the line between archaic ritual and modern techno.

AV Live - "Fields" festival [Mutabor club, Moscow] / 2019 / view 3
Full Project

Live / Anhydrite Biennale

2019

Live Performance

The duo executed a highly unique, site-specific audiovisual performance for the 2019 Anhydrite media-art biennale, located deep inside the Barbarossa Cave in Thuringia, Germany.

Performance still: Broken Composers and analog laser projection at Anhydrite

The natural underground environment dictated a completely different aesthetic approach. Clad in a total-blue enclosed suit and mask adorned with metallic artifacts, the performer navigated the ancient stone vaults.

A blue-suited masked performer on the stairs inside Barbarossa Cave at Anhydrite, 2019

The artists utilized the cave's massive natural reverberation to amplify their atmospheric soundscapes, creating a claustrophobic yet expansive dialogue between digital noise and geology.

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Live / Intervals Festival

2019

Live Performance

On April 13, 2019, the duo performed at the Intervals festival’s experimental music showcase, held in the small hall of Milo Concert Hall.

AV Live - "Intervals" festival [Milo club, Nizhny Novgorod] / 2019 / view 1

The set heavily featured their early approach to acoustic manipulation. The stage was covered with metallic chains, heavy springs, and custom-built noise boxes.

AV Live - "Intervals" festival [Milo club, Nizhny Novgorod] / 2019 / view 2

While a performer in a black mask extracted harsh, industrial textures using a microphone and physical force, the second member processed these live signals into a rhythmic techno foundation, all illuminated by sharp, piercing blue laser beams cutting through the smoke.

Broken Composers live at Intervals in 2019
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Broken Rooms Live / KultProekt

2019

Live Performance

This intimate 2019 audiovisual performance at Moscow’s Kultproekt gallery marked the official live presentation of the debut album, Broken Rooms.

Broken Rooms · Album presentation — performance documentation

Set within a pristine white exhibition space completely flooded with intense red lighting, the performance offered a stark visual contrast.

Broken Rooms · Album presentation — performance documentation

While a massive 3D model of a deconstructed cybernetic head slowly rotated on the central screen, the artists generated sound using an Evolution MIDI keyboard and real-time physical manipulation of hand-held objects, bridging the gap between digital generative systems and live action.

Broken Rooms · Album presentation — performance documentation
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Live / Genesis Festival

2019

Live Performance

Broken Composers joined the Genesis — Ultimae Records Night at the Module club in Moscow, bringing their signature audiovisual intensity to an event focused on ambient and midtempo music.

Broken Composers — project video still

The live performance was characterized by a deep, hypnotic soundscape perfectly synchronized with fluid, plasma-like blue video textures. The generative visual content engulfed the stage, throwing the artists' silhouettes into sharp relief.

This set demonstrated the duo’s ability to slow down their electronic rhythms while maintaining immense spatial and atmospheric pressure.

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Monowave Live

2018

Live Performance

The duo's performance at the Monowave concert inside Moscow’s Powerhouse club showcased their early reliance on physical, acoustic objects.

Monowave — performance documentation

Operating from a two-tiered instrument rack bathed in stark red and ultramarine light, the artists utilized heavy metal chains suspended over microphones and a glowing crystal glass to generate organic resonance.

Monowave — performance documentation

These raw acoustic signals were captured live and immediately processed through hardware electronics, creating a dense, layered sonic environment that accompanied the abstract, fluid light projections filling the small room.

Monowave — performance documentation
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Live / Ääniwalli, Helsinki

2018

Live Performance

Taking their audiovisual experiments abroad, the artists delivered a striking laser and electronic music performance at Ääniwalli, Helsinki’s premier industrial techno venue.

Ääniwalli — performance documentation

The harsh, utilitarian architecture of the Finnish club was completely transformed by thick, caustic planes of blue laser light. These sweeping digital waves traced the concrete walls and ceilings, reacting in real-time to the duo's heavy electronic live set.

Ääniwalli — performance documentation

The immersive light architecture created an overwhelming sense of spatial dislocation within the brutalist club environment.

Ääniwalli — performance documentation
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Celestial Structures / Audiovisual Performance

2018

Live Performance

This early performance accompanied the opening of Kirill Rave’s solo exhibition, Celestial Structures, at Kulttuuritalo Virta in Imatra, Finland.

AV Live - "Celestial structures" exhibition [Kirill Rave]: [Kulttuuritalo Virta, Finland, Imatra] / 2018 / view 1

The unique stage setup featured the artists dressed in bright red coveralls behind a clinical white laboratory table. Instead of standard synthesizers, the table was loaded with acoustic objects: recorders, heavy metal springs on wooden resonators, chains, files, and chisels.

The artists essentially performed an electroacoustic autopsy, extracting brutal industrial sounds and transforming them into a structured electronic live set.

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Live Electronics / SoulLiveFM

2018

Live Performance

Preserved in an archive session titled "Live Electronics" and supported by the curators of the Fields festival, this 2018 broadcast captures the duo in a state of pure studio improvisation.

Live Electronics / SoulLiveFM: original video cover

Bathed entirely in deep violet and blue lighting, the artists manipulated hardware synthesizers and live effect chains without the pressure of a club audience.

The recording documents the raw, unpolished genesis of their signature sound, focusing heavily on atmospheric modular textures, rhythmic instability, and the fluid interplay between the two electronic musicians.

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Live / Live8

2018

Live Performance

Performing at the birthday celebration for Moscow's underground Live8 club, the artists delivered a raw, hardware-driven live set in a highly intimate setting.

Broken Composers — project video still

The visual focus of the performance was a singular, intensely bright blue laser beam that pierced through the dense fog directly from the level of their equipment table.

Surrounded by synthesizers, cables, and guitar effect pedals, the duo constructed a relentless, lo-fi electronic soundscape. The blinding light and heavy smoke reduced their physical presence to mere silhouettes controlling the machinery.

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Neptune Live / Squat 3/4

2018

Live Performance

Billed specifically as an audiovisual live act, Broken Composers performed at the Neptune party inside Moscow’s historic Squat 3/4 venue in May 2018.

Neptune — performance documentation

The set was defined by an extreme contrast between classical instrumentation and harsh industrial noise. While one performer played delicate, breathy melodies on a traditional transverse flute, the other aggressively struck heavy metal objects and chains with a hammer.

Neptune — performance documentation

This abrasive electroacoustic collision took place within the venue's tiled, former bathhouse walls, bathed in a cold, unyielding blue spotlight.

Neptune — performance documentation
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Live / ARTLihoradka

2018

Live Performance

Returning to Squat 3/4 for ARTLihoradka vol.2, the duo shared a cross-disciplinary lineup that included prominent figures of Moscow conceptualism, such as Pavel Pepperstein.

ARTLihoradka — performance documentation

The performance represented a striking collision between traditional contemporary art circles and raw, underground audiovisual noise. Cloaked in patterned hoods and heavily shadowed lighting, the artists operated laptops and hardware controllers to summon a dense, overwhelming wall of electronic sound.

ARTLihoradka — performance documentation

The set cemented their reputation for bringing uncompromising club aesthetics into art spaces.

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Zagranica Live / Audiovisual Performance

2018

Live Performance

This early 2018 live appearance at the Zagranica underground club in Moscow captures the foundational elements of the Broken Composers' aesthetic.

Zagranica — performance documentation

The extremely intimate, low-ceilinged space was saturated in a heavy, aggressive red glow. The visual documentation shows a shadowy figure manipulating live electronic hardware, while another plays a transverse flute, merging organic breath with distorted synthetic frequencies.

Zagranica — performance documentation

The claustrophobic environment and raw energy of the performance highlight the duo’s roots in the city's uncompromising DIY electronic music scene.

Zagranica — performance documentation
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Broken Rooms

2017

Generative Audio Installation / Live Performance / Music Album

Broken Rooms originated as a generative audio installation for Kirill Rave's exhibition at the 2017 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.

Broken Composers performing with flute and electronics at KultProekt in 2017

Field recordings were passed through a network of over 300 random generators, forming a self-evolving composition. At the opening, Vitali Yu and Kirill Rave began to play live alongside this system. That spontaneous encounter became the inception of the Broken Composers studio.

Angular red digital portrait by Kirill Rave

Anchored by a striking red polygonal glitch-sculpture of a head, this generative work established the digital DNA and conceptual rigor for all their future projects.

Fragmented red digital portrait by Kirill Rave
Broken Rooms · original release artwork
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