Eduard Nikolayevitch Artemyev – Solaris

Eduard Nikolayevitch Artemyev is a composer whose name for many people is associated with electronic music. With unusual soundings, easily discernible in the present-day sound environment by their abundance of nuances and unaccountable acoustic comfort. With a peculiar world of imagery, sense of space so striking for the mind.
Artemiev accomplished his academic musical education at the Moscow Conservatoire in Yuri Shaporin’s class of composition. His meeting with engineer Eugene Murzin – one of the first in the world to invent a synthesiser – sealed his fate: “Incredible prospects for creativity were opened up by electronic music. That was a real “terra incognita”. Composers had never set foot on it in their practical activities”. It happened in 1960.
Kindred to the aesthetics of avant-garde is his music for films of Andrei Tarkovsky. The unordinary tasks set by the director required similar creative efforts on the part of the composer. Writing the music to “Solaris”, “The Mirror”, “Stalker” resulted in serious experiments in electronics and the specific sphere of audio-video contact.
Now we can listen to the soundtrack created by Artemiev for Solaris by Andreij Tarkovsky, today republished on a CD that collects extracts from the three Tarkovsky films with music by Artemiev (Solaris (1972), Stalker (1979) and The Mirror (1975)) , released on the Electroshock label, managed by his son Artemly.
Obviously all sounds are created by analog synthesizers.