Georgy Potopalsky (artistic pseudonym Ujif Notfound, born May 8, 1982, Moscow) is a Ukrainian media artist, electronic musician, composer and performer of Russian origin. He is the founder of the Ujif Notfound project, the BLCK BOX media art school and the KONTRAPUNKT art space. A member of the TseSho collectives, he has collaborated with the formations Ukho, NOVA OPERA, and Opera Aperta.
Biography
1982-1998
Born in Moscow, he studied at school number 1080 with an advanced level of physics and mathematics.
1998-2006
Enters the MIREA Institute, which he leaves in his 4th year because of the ridiculous educational system. At the same time, he starts playing in the band Grin Fandango, which specialized in Rap core, funk core, alternative styles and performed in Moscow clubs Yu-tu, R-club, Svalka, etc. Since 2004, he has been interested in sound synthesis, non-traditional approaches to music creation and reproduction, experimental and improvisational music. Since 2004, as an artist and a citizen, he has been actively expressing his negative position on the intensive development of the police regime in Russia and the return of KGB principles and traditions to the power structures.
2006-2013
In 2006, Georgiy moved from Moscow to Kyiv because of his active pro-democratic and pro-European civic position and the impossibility of living in Russia in the conditions of the return of the totalitarian regime. He started working and creating music in the MAX/MSP software environment. A few years later, he became one of the leading specialists and artists in Ukraine in this field. In 2007, he launched the author's project Ujif Notfound. Since then, he has been collaborating with many Ukrainian and foreign artists as a media artist and programmer. He is a member of the Association of Electroacoustic Music of Ukraine at the National Union of Composers of Ukraine (since 2010). Participates in many festivals in Ukraine and remotely around the world. Represents Ukraine at concerts of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music CIME in China, the USA, Poland, Austria, etc. As a matter of principle, he does not participate in any artistic events in Russia. In 2012, he founded the Efir art space. Creates a number of audio-visual installations for INTEL Ukraine 2013.
At the same time (2006-2012), he was engaged in the development of snowboarding in Ukraine (snowboard.com.ua website, annual snowboard film festival, organization of competitions).
2014-2021
In 2014, in the courtyard on Illinska Street, he created the space of experimental art Counterpoint, a venue for concerts of contemporary Ukrainian music of relevant genres: experimental, avant-garde, electroacoustic, new academic music, and festivals: "EM-Vision", "Electroacoustics", "16+". In 2015, he founded the first Ukrainian permanent school of New Media Art (BLCK BOX). As part of the curriculum, he developed an author's course on music programming for composers. Since 2016, he has been working with large-scale opera projects.
In December 2016, he staged the electroacoustic opera Limbo by Stefano Giervasoni at the National Opera of Ukraine (UCHO musical formation).
In the summer of 2017, at the invitation of composers Roman Hryhoriv and Ilya Razumeiko, he joined the NOVA OPERA project and realized the electronic part of such operas as Opera-Ballet ARK (directed by Vlad Troitsky), Trap-opera Wozzeck (based on the libretto and with the participation of Yuriy Izdryk), futuristic opera AEROPHONIA and dystopian opera GAZ (directed by Virlyana Tkach).
Also in 2017, he realized a musical and light show of the restored fountains on Independence Square (commissioned by the Kyiv City State Administration, he developed a control system and scripting software that was successfully tested and will be used in the future in the work of Kyiv fountains), and an installation for the KievLightFest 2017 light festival.
In 2020, as an electronic musician (live electronics / electronic music), he takes part in the Chornobyldorf Opera.
Takes an active part in the development [Archived December 12, 2021, at the Wayback Machine] and creation of the international project Pandemic Media Space.
In September 2021, he took part in the development and performance of the electronic part of the opera "Vyshyvanyi" by composer Alla Zahaykevych, which premiered on October 1, 2021, at the Kharkiv Opera House.
In October 2021, he took part in the creation and production of OPERA LINGUA by composers Roman Hryhoriv and Ilya Razumeiko, which premiered on October 30, 2021, at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine.
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Collaboration with artists and institutions
Collaborates with producers: Dmytro Fedorenko (founder of the KVITNU label and festival http://kvitnu.com/), Andriy Kyrychenko (founder of the NEXTSOUND label and festival). He actively collaborates with the composer Alla Zahaykevych, is a regular participant in the festivals of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine and electronic music projects (EM-VISIA and Electroacoustics projects). For two years, he was a volunteer teacher of elective courses in music programming at the National Music Academy of Ukraine (Department of Composition and Music and Information Technologies).
As a Ukrainian media artist, he participated in exhibitions at the invitation of many art institutions in Ukraine. Among them: National Art Museum of Ukraine, Mystetskyi Arsenal,[10] CSM/Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Institute for Contemporary Art Research, PinchukArtCentre, Shcherbenko Art Center, Karas Gallery, etc.
He regularly participates in Ukrainian contemporary art festivals supported by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine: Dnipro - "Construction", Ivano-Frankivsk - "Porto Franko", Lviv - "Tetramatika", Kharkiv - "Akkumator", etc. He has collaborated with such artists as: Marek Koloniewski (Krakow, Poland), Elisabeth Schimana (Vienna, Austria), Hans Thiemann (New York, USA), Alla Zagaykevych (Kyiv, Ukraine), etc.
Discography
Hypogonadism : ISHALLSINGUNTILMYLANDISFREE UKRAINIAN EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC LABEL
PROCESS - Catalogue # : KVITNU 64 [Archived April 27, 2020, at the Wayback Machine].
Electroacoustic Works of Ukrainian Composers 1964 - 2017
[pre][code] - Catalogue # : KVITNU 41 [Archived March 8, 2019, at the Wayback Machine].
aneuch - cat: ton015 # : electroton
v/a "Myths & Masks" - Catalog # : KVITNU 18 [Archived May 12, 2020, at the Wayback Machine].
Below The Radar Special Edition: Zikro [Archived December 7, 2018, at the Wayback Machine] - Advanced Music From Ukraine - compiled for The Wire
