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A science researcher and artist. Born '''Bulat Maxmudovich Galeyev''' in 1940. 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.
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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.
  
 
==Works==
 
==Works==
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{{:Prometei|transcludesection=prometei-works}}
File:Light Composition Using Prometei-3.jpg|Light composition using ''Prometei-3''
 
File:Debussy's Fireworks Played on Kristall.jpg|Debussy's ''Fireworks'' played on ''Kristall''
 
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==Bibliography==
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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.
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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 Faust'', 1995. A book about Leon Theremin. [http://prometheus.kai.ru/vnimanie_e.htm A brief digest]. (Russian). ''Soviet Faust: Leon Theremin-pioneer of Electronic Art'', translated from the Russian by Salley Brown. ETT Imprint, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ISBN 9781875892761 [http://books.google.com/books/about/Soviet_Faust.html?id=DpJTAAAACAAJ]
 
* 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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==Writings==
* B. M. Galeyev, [[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'', Vol. 9, No. 3 (1976), pp 177-182.
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===Books===
* B. M. Galeyev, [[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'', Vol. 21, No. 4 (1988), pp 383-396.
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* with S.A. Andreyev, ''Principles of the Construction of Light-Musical Devices'', Moscow: Energia, 1973, 104 pp. {{ru}}
* Bulat M. Galeyev, [[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'', Vol. 24, No. 4 (1991), pp 453-456. [http://prometheus.kai.ru/laokoon_e.htm]
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* ''Artistic and Technological Experiments of Design Office 'Prometheus' '', Kazan: KAI, 1974, 32 pp. {{ru}}
* Bulat M. Galeyev, [[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'', Vol. 24, No. 5 (1991) pp 505-507.
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* ''Light-Music: The Formation and Essence of a New Art'', Kazan: Tatknigoizdat, 1976, 272 pp. {{ru}}
* Bulat Galeyev, "Kandinsky and Schoenberg: The Problem of Internal Counterpoint", ''Languages of Design'' 1 No. 2, (1993) pp 184-186.
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* with R.F. Saifullin, ''Light-Musical Devices'', Moscow: Energia, 1978, 176 pp. {{ru}}
* Bulat M. Galeyev, [[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'', Vol. 26, No. 1 (1993) pp 76-78. [http://prometheus.kai.ru/yavorsk_e.htm]
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* ''Singing Rainbow: Stories about Light-Music and Light-Musicians'', Kazan: Tatknigoizdat, 1980, 120 pp. {{ru}}
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/probl_e.htm "Problem of synaesthesia in the arts"], ''Languages of Design'', vol. 1 (1993) pp 201-203.
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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}}
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/gork_r.htm "On Maxim Gorky's synaethesia"]. (Russian)
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* ''The Concord of Senses and Synthesis of Arts'', Moscow: Znanie, 1982, 64 pp. {{ru}}
* Bulat M. Galeyev, [[Media:Galeyev, Bulat M. (1994) - Schoenberg-Kandinsky Symposium and the Academy of Light.pdf|"Schoenberg/Kandinsky Symposium and the Academy of Light"]], ''Leonardo'' Vol. 27, No. 1 (1994) pp 3-5.
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* with S.M. Zorin and R.F. Saifullin, ''Light-Musical Instruments'', Moscow: Radio i Svyaz, 1987, 128 pp. {{ru}}
* Bulat M. Galeyev, [[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, No. 4 (1994) pp 351-352.
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* ''Man, Art, Technology: The Problem of Synaesthesia in Art'', Kazan: KGU Press, 1987, 264 pp. {{ru}}
* 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, No. 5 (1994) pp 449-450.
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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 M. Galeyev, [[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'', Vol. 28, No. 1 (1995), pp 51-52.
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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 M. Galeyev, [[Media:Galeyev, Bulat (1995) - Review - Ostranenie Festival.pdf|Review: The International "Ostranenie" Festival]], ''Leonardo'', Vol. 28, No. 1 (1995), pp 78-79.
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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, "On the true sources of light-music", ''Languages of Design'' 3, 33-44 (1996).
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* ''Spatial Music'' [joint edition], 2005.  
* B. M. Galeyev, [http://www.a-art.com/avantgarde/Articles/Prometei.htm "Institute "Prometei", Kazan, Russia (1962-1997)"] 1997.
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* ''Light-Music, Synesthesia, "Color-Hearing": An Annotated Bibliography (Russia 1742-2002'', Kazan: Fan Publishers, 2006. {{ru}}
* Bulat M. Galeyev, [[Media:Galeyev, Bulat M. (1998) - Russians Leave Europe.pdf|"Russians Leave Europe", ''Leonardo'']], Vol. 31, No. 2 (1998), pp 142-143.
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* editor, ''Synaesthesia: The unity of the senses and synthesis of arts'', Kazan: Tupolev KSTU, 2008.
* 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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** ''Synesthesie''. {{fr}}
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/mif_e.htm "What is synaesthesia: myth and reality"], ''Leonardo Electronic Almanac'', Vol. 7, No. 6 (1999)
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* 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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===Articles===
* 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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* [[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, I. L. Vanechkina, [[Media:Galeyev, B. M.; Vanechkina, I. L. (2001) - Was Scriabin a Synesthete.pdf|"Was Scriabin a Synesthete?"]], ''Leonardo'', Vol. 34, No. 4 (2001) pp 357-361. [http://prometheus.kai.ru/skriab_e.htm]
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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, [[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'', Vol. 38, No. 4 (2005), pp 365-366. [http://prometheus.kai.ru/sinestes_e.htm]
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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]
* Bulat Galeyev, [[Media:Galeyev, Bulat (2005) - Mikhail Matyushin's Contribution to Synthetic Art.pdf|"Mikhail Matyushin's Contribution to Synthetic Art"]], ''Leonardo'', Vol. 38, No. 2 (2005), pp. 151-154.
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* [https://sci-hub.st/https://www.jstor.org/stable/1575527 "Ars Electronica in the International and Soviet Versions"], ''Leonardo'' 24:4, 1991, pp 475-481.
* B. M. Galeyev, [http://www.jstor.org/stable/20206419 "The Nature and Functions of Synesthesia in Music"], ''Leonardo'', Vol. 40, No. 3 (2007), pp. 285-288.
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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/sis_e.htm "Periodical System of Art"], undated.
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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/mif_real2e.htm "Computers and Art: Myths and Reality"], undated.
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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]
* B. M. Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/abs-sin_e.htm "Abstract Cinema and Light-Music"], undated.  
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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.
* B. M. Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/pr-mys_e.htm "Spatial Music"], undated.
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/gork_r.htm "On Maxim Gorky's synaethesia"]. {{ru}}
* B. M. Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/sonetlum_e.htm "Sound and Light Performances"], undated.
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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/t_aff.htm "Color hearing and affects theory"]. (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/sluh_r.htm "Color hearing and light-music"]. (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/zwsl_r.htm "Color hearing: nature and functions of synaesthesia"]. (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/color_e.htm "To colour and light (evolution of gravitational synaesthesia inmusic)"].
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* [[Media:Galeyev, Bulat (1995) - Review - Ostranenie Festival.pdf|Review: The International "Ostranenie" Festival]], ''Leonardo'' 28:1 (1995), pp 78-79.
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/kor_r.htm "Korolenko as color hearing researcher"]. (Russian)
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* "On the true sources of light-music", ''Languages of Design'' 3 (1996), pp 33-44.
* 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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* [http://www.a-art.com/avantgarde/Articles/Prometei.htm "Institute "Prometei", Kazan, Russia (1962-1997)"] 1997.
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/zap-wost_r.html "Synaesthesia is a form of non-verbal thinking"]. (Russian)
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* [[Media:Galeyev, Bulat M. (1998) - Russians Leave Europe.pdf|"Russians Leave Europe"]], ''Leonardo'' 31:2 (1998), pp 142-143.
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/slovo.html "Synaesthesia in language and art of word"]. (Russian)
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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.
* Bulat Galeyev, [http://prometheus.kai.ru/sine_r.htm "Synaesthesia is a miracle of poetic thinking"]. (Russian)
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* [http://prometheus.kai.ru/mif_e.htm "What is synaesthesia: myth and reality"], ''Leonardo Electronic Almanac'' 7:6 (1999).
* Brian Droitcour, [http://www.rhizome.org/editorial/2398 "The Prometheus Institute and the Work of Bulat Galeyev"] 2009.
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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.
* 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://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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Latest revision as of 14:31, 17 April 2024


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[edit]

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[edit]

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.

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Books[edit]

  • 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)
  • 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). [2] (Russian)
  • Spatial Music [joint edition], 2005.
  • Light-Music, Synesthesia, "Color-Hearing": An Annotated Bibliography (Russia 1742-2002, Kazan: Fan Publishers, 2006. (Russian)
  • editor, Synaesthesia: The unity of the senses and synthesis of arts, Kazan: Tupolev KSTU, 2008.
    • Synesthesie. (French)

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