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A science researcher and artist. Born '''Bulat Maxmudovich Galeyev''' in 1940. He graduated from Kazan State Pedagogical Institute, [[Kazan]], USSR, in 1962, and attained a Ph.D. in 1986. He has been a teacher in physics and aesthetics, 1962-1963; a lecturer in physics and philosophy at KAI, Kazan, 1963-1966; a scientific worker, 1966-1994; head of SKB Prometheus, director of scientific and research institute for experimental aesthetics affilated with the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan and Kazan State Technical University, Kazan, 1994-present; a film director, theatrical performances director, director of light-music performances and video art installations, SKB [[Prometei]], 1964-1995; and a professor of aesthetics of Kazan Conservatory, since 1990.  
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'''Bulat Galeyev''' (1940-2009) was a science researcher, artist and long-time director of the [[Prometei|Prometei Institute]].  
  
He is the author of several books and has contributed more than 500 articles to professional journals. He has been a member of the editorial board of [[Leonardo]], since 1987; of Language of Design magazine, USA, 1992-1997; and ''Kazan'' magazine, since 1993. He was the organizer of 15 All-Union and All-Russia [[Light and Music]] conferences and a participant in many international symposia and festivals. He received a Diploma for Spectacle from the All-Russia Theatrical Society, Moscow, 1970; a diploma for film awarded by the organizing committee of the international [[Techfilm]] festival, Prague, 1975; and an honorary medal awarded by the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, Moscow, 1983. He was a member of Russian Academy of Humanities and of the Russian Cinemamakers Union, as well as a corresponding member ofthe Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan. Member of [[International Society for Art, Science and Technology]]. Died 2009.
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==Life==
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Born '''Bulat Maxmudovich Galeyev''' in 1940. Graduated from Kazan State Pedagogical Institute, [[Kazan]], USSR, in 1962, and received a Ph.D. in 1986. He was a teacher in physics and aesthetics, 1962-1963; a lecturer in physics and philosophy at KAI, Kazan, 1963-1966; a scientific worker, 1966-1994; head of SKB Prometheus, director of scientific and research institute for experimental aesthetics affilated with the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan and Kazan State Technical University, Kazan, 1994-present; a film director, theatrical performances director, director of light-music performances and video art installations, SKB [[Prometei]], 1964-1995; and professor of aesthetics of Kazan Conservatory, from 1990.  
  
==Bibliography==
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Galeyev wrote several books and contributed more than 500 articles to professional journals. He was a member of the editorial board of ''[[Leonardo]]'', since 1987; of ''Language of Design'' magazine, USA, 1992-1997; and ''Kazan'' magazine, from 1993. He had organided fifteen editions of All-Union and All-Russia [[Light and Music]] conferences and participated in numerous international symposia and festivals. He received a Diploma for Spectacle from the All-Russia Theatrical Society, Moscow, 1970; a diploma for film awarded by the organizing committee of the international [[Techfilm]] festival, Prague, 1975; and an honorary medal awarded by the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, Moscow, 1983. He was a member of Russian Academy of Humanities and of the Russian Cinemamakers Union, as well as a corresponding member ofthe Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan. Member of [[International Society for Art, Science and Technology]]. Died in 2009.
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* Bulat Galeyev, ''Light-Music: Birth and Essence of New Art'', 1976
 
* Bulat Galeyev, ''Poem of Fire'', 1981
 
* Bulat Galeyev, ''Light-Musical Instruments'', 1987
 
* Bulat Galeyev, ''Man, Art, Technology (Problem of Synaesthesia in Art)'', 1987. (Russian)
 
* Bulat Galeyev, ''Soviet Faustus'', 1995. A book about Leon Theremin. [http://prometheus.kai.ru/vnimanie_e.htm A brief digest]. (Russian, English)
 
* Bulat Galeyev, ''Art of the Cosmic Era'', 2000
 
* Bulat Galeyev, ''Art of the Space Age. Selected Works'', Kazan: Fan Publishers, 2003. 600 pages. (Russian)
 
* Bulat Galeyev, ''Spatial Music'' (joint edition), 2005.
 
* Bulat Galeyev, ''Light-Music, Synesthesia, "Color-Hearing": An Annotated Bibliography (Russia 1742-2002'', Kazan: Fan Publishers, 2006. (Russian)
 
* Bulat Galeyev (ed.), ''Synaesthesia: The unity of the senses and synthesis of arts'', Kazan: Tupolev KSTU, 2008. (Translated to French under the title ''Synesthesie'')
 
  
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==Works==
* B. M. Galeyev, [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1573549 "Music-Kinetic Art Medium: On the Work of the Group 'Prometei' (SKB), Kazan, U.S.S.R."], ''Leonardo'', Vol. 9, No. 3 (Summer, 1976), pp. 177-182.
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* B. M. Galeyev, [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1578701 "The Fire of "Prometheus": Music-Kinetic Art Experiments in the USSR"], ''Leonardo'', Vol. 21, No. 4 (1988), pp. 383-396.
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* Bulat M. Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/laokoon_e.htm "The New Laokoon: A Periodic System of the Arts"], ''Leonardo'' 24, No. 4, 453-456 (1991).
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/oduvan_e.htm ''The Space Dandelion'']. Electronic interpretation of Kant's and Hegel's philosofic concepts (a series of 12 oscillograms), 1987.
* Bulat Galeyev, "Modern Lakoon: Esthetic Problem of Synaesthesia Conference", ''Leonardo'' 24, No. 5 (1991) 505-507.
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* Bulat Galeyev, "Kandinsky and Schoenberg: The Problem of Internal Counterpoint", ''Languages of Design'' 1 No. 2,184-186 (1993).
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==Writings==
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/yavorsk_e.htm "Synaesthesia and musical space. On Yavorsky's forgotten hypothesis"], ''Leonardo'', vol. 26, nr. 1 (1993) 76-78.
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===Books===
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/probl_e.htm "Problem of synaesthesia in the arts"], ''Languages of Design'', vol. 1 (1993) 201-203.
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* with S.A. Andreyev, ''Principles of the Construction of Light-Musical Devices'', Moscow: Energia, 1973, 104 pp. {{ru}}
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/gork_r.htm "On Maxim Gorky's synaethesia"]. (Russian)
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* ''Artistic and Technological Experiments of Design Office 'Prometheus' '', Kazan: KAI, 1974, 32 pp. {{ru}}
* B.M. Galeyev, "Schoenberg/Kandinsky symposium and the academy of light", ''Leonardo'' 27, 3-11 (1994).
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* ''Light-Music: The Formation and Essence of a New Art'', Kazan: Tatknigoizdat, 1976, 272 pp. {{ru}}
* B.M. Galeyev, "Farewell Prometheus Readings: Light-music in the former Soviet Union", ''Leonardo'' 27, No. 4, 351-2 (1994).
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* with R.F. Saifullin, ''Light-Musical Devices'', Moscow: Energia, 1978, 176 pp. {{ru}}
* S. Voronin, "Review: Man, Art, Technology: The Problem of Synaesthesia in Art by B. Galeyev", ''Leonardo'' 27, No. 5, 449-450 (1994).  
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* ''Singing Rainbow: Stories about Light-Music and Light-Musicians'', Kazan: Tatknigoizdat, 1980, 120 pp. {{ru}}
* B. M. Galeyev, [[Media:Galeyev, Bulat (1995) - Music and Technology in Soviet Union.pdf|"Music and Technology in Soviet Union"]], 1995.
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* with I.L. Vanechkina, ''Poem of Fire: An Interpretation of the Light-Musical Synthesis of A.N.Scriabin'', Kazan: KGU Press, 1981, 160 pp. {{ru}}
* B. M. Galeyev, [[Media:Galeyev, Bulat (1995) - Review - Ostranenie Festival.pdf|Review - Ostranenie Festival]], 1995.
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* ''The Concord of Senses and Synthesis of Arts'', Moscow: Znanie, 1982, 64 pp. {{ru}}
* Bulat Galeyev, "On the true sources of light-music", ''Languages of Design'' 3, 33-44 (1996).
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* with S.M. Zorin and R.F. Saifullin, ''Light-Musical Instruments'', Moscow: Radio i Svyaz, 1987, 128 pp. {{ru}}
* B. M. Galeyev, [http://www.a-art.com/avantgarde/Articles/Prometei.htm "Institute "Prometei", Kazan, Russia (1962-1997)"] 1997.
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* ''Man, Art, Technology: The Problem of Synaesthesia in Art'', Kazan: KGU Press, 1987, 264 pp. {{ru}}
* B. M. Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/idei_e.htm "Light-Music Today: The development of Scriabin's Ideas (on the example of Kazan school of new art)"], ''Transactions of Scriabin Museum'', Moscow, 1998, No 3, pp. 52-71.
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* ''[[Media:Galeyev_Bulat_Sovetskiy_Faust_Lev_Termen_pioner_elektronnogo_iskusstva_1995.pdf|Sovetskiy Faust. Lev Termen, pioner elektronnogo iskusstva]]'' [Советский Фауст: Лев Термен, пионер электронного искусства], Kazan: Kazan magazine, 1995, 96 pp. Biography. {{ru}}
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/mif_e.htm "What is synaesthesia: myth and reality"], ''Leonardo Electronic Almanac'', vol.7 nr. 6 (1999)
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** ''Soviet Faust: Leon Theremin, Pioneer of Electronic Art'', trans. Sally Brown, Sydney: ETT Imprint, 2010, 96 pp. [http://prometheus.kai.ru/sov-faustus_e.htm] {{en}}
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/anomal_e.htm "Synaesthesia is not a psychic abnormality"]. Paper presented at the conference "Language, Vision & Music", August 1999, Galeway, Ireland.
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* ''Art of the Space Age. Selected Works'', Kazan: Fan Publishers, 2002. 600 pages. Selected writings by Bulat Galeyev on topics including history and theory of light-music, abstract cinema, spatial music, light-architecture, video-art, computer art and his own experiments in all of these fields. A separate section is devoted to synesthesia. The book includes a bibliography of the author's works (800 titles). [http://prometheus.kai.ru/bg.htm] {{ru}}
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/lofty_e.htm "Loftysickness of synesthesia or creative impotence of its interpreters?"], in ''Conference Prometheus-2000. Collected theses'', Kazan: FEN, 2000, pp.73-79.
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* ''Spatial Music'' [joint edition], 2005.
* Bulat M. Galeyev, I.L. Vanechkina, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/skriab_e.htm "Was Scriabin asynesthete?"], ''Leonardo'', vol. 34, nr. 4 (2001) 357-361.
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* ''Light-Music, Synesthesia, "Color-Hearing": An Annotated Bibliography (Russia 1742-2002'', Kazan: Fan Publishers, 2006. {{ru}}
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/sinestes_e.htm "Are 'Cognitive Fossils' Significant for Art? Studies of Synesthesia"], ''Leonardo'' 38, No. 4, 365-366 (2005).
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* editor, ''Synaesthesia: The unity of the senses and synthesis of arts'', Kazan: Tupolev KSTU, 2008.
* Bulat Galeyev, "Mikhail Matyushin's Contribution to Synthetic Art", ''Leonardo'' Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 151-154, 2005.
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** ''Synesthesie''. {{fr}}
* Bulat Galeyev, "The Nature and Functions of Synesthesia in Music", ''Leonardo'' Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 285-288, 2007.
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* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/sis_e.htm "Periodical System of Art"], undated.
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===Articles===
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/mif_real2e.htm "Computers and Art: Myths and Reality"], undated.  
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* [[Media:Galeyev, B. M. (1976) - Music-Kinetic Art Medium. On the Work of the Group 'Prometei' (SKB), Kazan, U.S.S.R..pdf|"Music-Kinetic Art Medium: On the Work of the Group 'Prometei' (SKB), Kazan, U.S.S.R."]], ''Leonardo'' 9:3 (1976), pp 177-182.
* B. M. Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/abs-sin_e.htm "Abstract Cinema and Light-Music"], undated.
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* [[Media:Galeyev, B. M. (1988) - The Fire of Prometheus. Music-Kinetic Art Experiments in the USSR.pdf|"The Fire of "Prometheus": Music-Kinetic Art Experiments in the USSR"]], ''Leonardo'' 21:4 (1988), pp 383-396.
* B. M. Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/pr-mys_e.htm "Spatial Music"], undated.
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* [[Media:Galeyev, Bulat M. (1991) - The New Laokoon. A Periodic System of the Arts.pdf|"The New 'Laokoön': A Periodic System of the Arts"]], ''Leonardo'' 24:4 (1991), pp 453-456. [http://prometheus.kai.ru/laokoon_e.htm]
* B. M. Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/sonetlum_e.htm "Sound and Light Performances"], undated.
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* [[Media:Galeyev, Bulat M. (1991) - Modern Laokoön. Esthetic Problems of Synaesthesia Conference, Moscow, USSR, 21-22 January 1991.pdf|"Modern Laokoön: Esthetic Problems of Synaesthesia Conference, Moscow, USSR, 21-22 January 1991"]], ''Leonardo'' 24:5 (1991), pp 505-507.
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/t_aff.htm "Color hearing and affects theory"]. (Russian)
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* "Kandinsky and Schoenberg: The Problem of Internal Counterpoint", ''Languages of Design'' 1 No. 2, (1993) pp 184-186.
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/sluh_r.htm "Color hearing and light-music"]. (Russian)
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* [[Media:Galeyev, Bulat M. (1993) - Synesthesia and Musical Space. On Yavorsky's Forgotten Hypothesis and a Proposal for an Experiment in Zero Gravity.pdf|"Synesthesia and Musical Space: On Yavorsky's Forgotten Hypothesis and a Proposal for an Experiment in Zero Gravity"]], ''Leonardo'' 26:1 (1993), pp 76-78. [http://prometheus.kai.ru/yavorsk_e.htm]
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/zwsl_r.htm "Color hearing: nature and functions of synaesthesia"]. (Russian)
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/probl_e.htm "Problem of synaesthesia in the arts"], ''Languages of Design'' 1 (1993), pp 201-203.
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/color_e.htm "To colour and light (evolution of gravitational synaesthesia inmusic)"].
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/gork_r.htm "On Maxim Gorky's synaethesia"]. {{ru}}
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/kor_r.htm "Korolenko as color hearing researcher"]. (Russian)
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* [[Media:Galeyev, Bulat M. (1994) - Schoenberg-Kandinsky Symposium and the Academy of Light.pdf|"Schoenberg/Kandinsky Symposium and the Academy of Light"]], ''Leonardo'' 27:1 (1994), pp 3-5.
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/zap-wost_r.html "Problem of light-music and synaesthesia in the West and in the East"] (Russian)
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* [[Media:Galeyev, Bulat M. (1994) - Farewell Prometheus Readings. Light-Music in the Former Soviet Union.pdf|"Farewell Prometheus Readings: Light-Music in the Former Soviet Union"]], ''Leonardo'' 27:4 (1994), pp 351-352.
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/zap-wost_r.html "Synaesthesia is a form of non-verbal thinking"]. (Russian)
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* Stan Voronin, [[Media:Voronin, Stan (1994) - Review. Man, Art, Technology. The Problem of Synesthesia in Art by Bulat Galeyev; Light-Music in the System of the Arts by Bulat Galeyev.pdf|"Review: Man, Art, Technology: The Problem of Synesthesia in Art by Bulat Galeyev; Light-Music in the System of the Arts by Bulat Galeyev"]], ''Leonardo'' 27:5 (1994) pp 449-450.
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/slovo.html "Synaesthesia in language and art of word"]. (Russian)
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* [[Media:Galeyev, Bulat (1995) - Music and Technology in Soviet Union.pdf|"Light from an Extinct Star: Music and Technology in the Former Soviet Union"]], ''Leonardo'' 28:1 (1995), pp 51-52.
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/sine_r.htm "Synaesthesia is a miracle of poetic thinking"]. (Russian)
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* [[Media:Galeyev, Bulat (1995) - Review - Ostranenie Festival.pdf|Review: The International "Ostranenie" Festival]], ''Leonardo'' 28:1 (1995), pp 78-79.
* Brian Droitcour, [http://www.rhizome.org/editorial/2398 "The Prometheus Institute and the Work of Bulat Galeyev"] 2009.
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* "On the true sources of light-music", ''Languages of Design'' 3 (1996), pp 33-44.
* Jörg Jewanski, [http://estia.media.uoa.gr/pipermail/yasmin_announcements/20090306/000091.html "Obituary: Bulat Maxmudovich Galeyev (2 Oct. 1940 - 5 Jan. 2009)"]
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* [http://www.a-art.com/avantgarde/Articles/Prometei.htm "Institute "Prometei", Kazan, Russia (1962-1997)"] 1997.
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* [[Media:Galeyev, Bulat M. (1998) - Russians Leave Europe.pdf|"Russians Leave Europe"]], ''Leonardo'' 31:2 (1998), pp 142-143.
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/idei_e.htm "Light-Music Today: The development of Scriabin's Ideas (on the example of Kazan school of new art)"], ''Transactions of Scriabin Museum'', Moscow, 1998, No 3, pp. 52-71.
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/mif_e.htm "What is synaesthesia: myth and reality"], ''Leonardo Electronic Almanac'' 7:6 (1999).
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/anomal_e.htm "Synaesthesia is not a psychic abnormality"]. Paper presented at the conference "Language, Vision & Music", August 1999, Galeway, Ireland.
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/lofty_e.htm "Loftysickness of synesthesia or creative impotence of its interpreters?"], in ''Conference Prometheus-2000. Collected theses'', Kazan: FEN, 2000, pp 73-79.
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* I. L. Vanechkina, [[Media:Galeyev, B. M.; Vanechkina, I. L. (2001) - Was Scriabin a Synesthete.pdf|"Was Scriabin a Synesthete?"]], ''Leonardo'' 34:4 (2001), pp 357-361. [http://prometheus.kai.ru/skriab_e.htm]
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* [[Media:Galeyev, B. M. (2005) - Are 'Cognitive Fossils' Significant for Art. Studies of Synesthesia in Normal and Abnormal Cases.pdf|"Are 'Cognitive Fossils' Significant for Art? Studies of Synesthesia in Normal and Abnormal Cases"]], ''Leonardo'' 38:4 (2005), pp 365-366. [http://prometheus.kai.ru/sinestes_e.htm]
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* [[Media:Galeyev, Bulat (2005) - Mikhail Matyushin's Contribution to Synthetic Art.pdf|"Mikhail Matyushin's Contribution to Synthetic Art"]], ''Leonardo'' 38:2 (2005), pp 151-154.
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* [http://www.jstor.org/stable/20206419 "The Nature and Functions of Synesthesia in Music"], ''Leonardo'' 40:3 (2007), pp 285-288.
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/sis_e.htm "Periodical System of Art"], undated.
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/mif_real2e.htm "Computers and Art: Myths and Reality"], undated.
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/abs-sin_e.htm "Abstract Cinema and Light-Music"], undated.
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/pr-mys_e.htm "Spatial Music"], undated.
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/sonetlum_e.htm "Sound and Light Performances"], undated.
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/t_aff.htm "Color hearing and affects theory"]. {{ru}}
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/sluh_r.htm "Color hearing and light-music"]. {{ru}}
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/zwsl_r.htm "Color hearing: nature and functions of synaesthesia"]. {{ru}}
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/color_e.htm "To colour and light (evolution of gravitational synaesthesia inmusic)"].
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/kor_r.htm "Korolenko as color hearing researcher"]. {{ru}}
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/zap-wost_r.html "Problem of light-music and synaesthesia in the West and in the East"] {{ru}}
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/zap-wost_r.html "Synaesthesia is a form of non-verbal thinking"]. {{ru}}
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/slovo.html "Synaesthesia in language and art of word"]. {{ru}}
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/sine_r.htm "Synaesthesia is a miracle of poetic thinking"]. {{ru}}
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==Literature==
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* Brian Droitcour, [http://www.rhizome.org/editorial/2398 "The Prometheus Institute and the Work of Bulat Galeyev"], 2009.
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* Jörg Jewanski, [http://estia.media.uoa.gr/pipermail/yasmin_announcements/20090306/000091.html "Obituary: Bulat Maxmudovich Galeyev (2 Oct. 1940 - 5 Jan. 2009)"], 2009.
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
 
* [[Prometei]]
 
* [[Prometei]]
 
* [[Media_art_in_CEE#Audiovisual_compositions]]
 
* [[Media_art_in_CEE#Audiovisual_compositions]]
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==Links==
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* [[Remake/Exhibition/Work_8_/_The_Lost_Horse_Gallery_project_/_Lucid_Light_Comp.|Lucid Light Comp. #2]], a dynamic installation inspired by ideas and aesthetics of Galeyev and Prometheus Institute, part of the [[Remake]] project in [[Brno]], Czech Republic, 2012.
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* [http://malina.diatrope.com/2015/02/21/from-synesthesia-to-synthesis-of-arts-conference-in-honor-of-bulat-galeyev-in-kazan/ From Synesthesia to Synthesis of Arts: In Praise of Bulat Galeyev], a conference in Kazan, 2-5 October 2015.
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Revision as of 23:20, 15 November 2017


Photo from I.Vanechkina collection
Born October 2, 1940(1940-10-02)
Tashkent, Usbekistan, Soviet Union
Died January 5, 2009(2009-01-05) (aged 68)

Bulat Galeyev (1940-2009) was a science researcher, artist and long-time director of the Prometei Institute.

Life

Born Bulat Maxmudovich Galeyev in 1940. Graduated from Kazan State Pedagogical Institute, Kazan, USSR, in 1962, and received a Ph.D. in 1986. He was a teacher in physics and aesthetics, 1962-1963; a lecturer in physics and philosophy at KAI, Kazan, 1963-1966; a scientific worker, 1966-1994; head of SKB Prometheus, director of scientific and research institute for experimental aesthetics affilated with the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan and Kazan State Technical University, Kazan, 1994-present; a film director, theatrical performances director, director of light-music performances and video art installations, SKB Prometei, 1964-1995; and professor of aesthetics of Kazan Conservatory, from 1990.

Galeyev wrote several books and contributed more than 500 articles to professional journals. He was a member of the editorial board of Leonardo, since 1987; of Language of Design magazine, USA, 1992-1997; and Kazan magazine, from 1993. He had organided fifteen editions of All-Union and All-Russia Light and Music conferences and participated in numerous international symposia and festivals. He received a Diploma for Spectacle from the All-Russia Theatrical Society, Moscow, 1970; a diploma for film awarded by the organizing committee of the international Techfilm festival, Prague, 1975; and an honorary medal awarded by the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, Moscow, 1983. He was a member of Russian Academy of Humanities and of the Russian Cinemamakers Union, as well as a corresponding member ofthe Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan. Member of International Society for Art, Science and Technology. Died in 2009.

Works

fragment from the concert using Crystall

fragment from the concert using Prometheus-2

Crimson Chime installation in Spasskaya Tower of Kazan Citadel, 1967

The system of dynamical lighting of Kazan Circus, 1968

fragment from the light-music film Eternal Movement, 1969

The light-musical panel Singing Cosmos, 1970

fragment from the light-music film Space Sonata, 1981

fragment from the light-music video The Temple (in the kitsch-style), 1989

fragment from the light-music video Dance of Vertical Lines, 1990

Collective self-portrait of Prometei institute, 1994

Russians Leave Europe, video installation, 1995

Electronic Court, video installation

Electronic Grimases in the Magnetic Field, video installation


TV Set Playing the Piano, video installation


The Op Art of Video Art, video installation

  • The Space Dandelion. Electronic interpretation of Kant's and Hegel's philosofic concepts (a series of 12 oscillograms), 1987.

Writings

Books

  • with S.A. Andreyev, Principles of the Construction of Light-Musical Devices, Moscow: Energia, 1973, 104 pp. (Russian)
  • Artistic and Technological Experiments of Design Office 'Prometheus' , Kazan: KAI, 1974, 32 pp. (Russian)
  • Light-Music: The Formation and Essence of a New Art, Kazan: Tatknigoizdat, 1976, 272 pp. (Russian)
  • with R.F. Saifullin, Light-Musical Devices, Moscow: Energia, 1978, 176 pp. (Russian)
  • Singing Rainbow: Stories about Light-Music and Light-Musicians, Kazan: Tatknigoizdat, 1980, 120 pp. (Russian)
  • with I.L. Vanechkina, Poem of Fire: An Interpretation of the Light-Musical Synthesis of A.N.Scriabin, Kazan: KGU Press, 1981, 160 pp. (Russian)
  • The Concord of Senses and Synthesis of Arts, Moscow: Znanie, 1982, 64 pp. (Russian)
  • with S.M. Zorin and R.F. Saifullin, Light-Musical Instruments, Moscow: Radio i Svyaz, 1987, 128 pp. (Russian)
  • Man, Art, Technology: The Problem of Synaesthesia in Art, Kazan: KGU Press, 1987, 264 pp. (Russian)
  • Sovetskiy Faust. Lev Termen, pioner elektronnogo iskusstva [Советский Фауст: Лев Термен, пионер электронного искусства], Kazan: Kazan magazine, 1995, 96 pp. Biography. (Russian)
    • Soviet Faust: Leon Theremin, Pioneer of Electronic Art, trans. Sally Brown, Sydney: ETT Imprint, 2010, 96 pp. [1] (English)
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