George Bagdasarov
George Bagdasarov (Գեվորգ Բագդասարով) was born in Kazahstan into an Armenian family. He began his studies of cybernetics at the Technical University in Kaluga, switching to composition at the Music Academy in Moscow, graduating from the St. Petersburg Film School. He started a musical career as a guitarist in a psychedelic punk band, developed through conceptual techno to free improvisation based on stuff collected from flea markets all around the world. He has played and recorded in different collaboration with jazz, noise, electronic, etc. musicians Richard Deutsch, Jerome Noetinger, Yoshio Mashida, Les Halmes, Dill, Yutaka Makino, DJ Sniff, Nikolay Rubanov, Fitz Ellarald, and others. Since 2005 he has lived in Prague, completing his doctoral studies at FAMU in 2012, and being involved in a wide range of collaborations from punk-blues to audio visual noise performance. In solo performances, he plays saxophone and prepared guitar with support of flea market´s orchestra.
- Links
- CAA#14 – George Bagdasarov, recording, 2013.
- George's profile on MySpace
- George's profile on Mediabaze.cz (in Czech)
- George's profile on Rozhlas.cz
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