Collage/Mixed Media

GTM Composition #351
Collage

Blue in Green for Miles Davis
Collage

GTD Composition #101
Collage

In a 80’s, needlessly to say, computers and digital image manipulations absent … At this time using only camera, lights and special filters Yuri Elperin developed unique process for creating abstract photocollage images. This technic Yuri Elperin used in one of his project ” GTM Compositions ” (based and inspired by jazz legend Anthony Braxton’s ” Ghost Trance Music”).

Balancing between notation and improvisation, Anthony Braxton’s “Ghost Trance Music” represent a unique body of “open works” that challenges traditional roles of composer, score and performer. In “Ghost Trance Music” Braxton’s entire fascinating musical universe comes together. You step into a ritual, guided by a melody without beginning or end, a stream of consciousness that serves as the central track leading you into the unknown. Originally inspired by the Native American practice of the Ghost Dance ritual, where surviving members of Native American tribes would attempt to communicate with their ancestors through transcendental ghost dances, the Ghost Trance Music pieces are specifically designed to function as pathways between Braxton’s different musical systems, between notation and improvisation, between past, present and future. It allows for a plurality of musical practices to join forces, transcending traditional genre boundaries. It creates an arena in which Braxton helps curate intuitive experiences for both performers and listeners… In parallelism Yuri Elperin’s interpretations of “Ghost Trance Music” visually resonate and captivate Anthony Braxton compositions.