Bulat Galeyev

Born	October 2, 1940(1940-10-02) Tashkent, Usbekistan, USSR
Died	January 5, 2009(2009-01-05) (aged 68)

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.

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.

Works

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  Light composition using Prometei-3

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  Debussy's Fireworks played on Kristall

Bibliography

Books

• 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. 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 [1]
• Bulat Galeyev, Art of the Space Age. Selected Works, Kazan: Fan Publishers, 2002. 600 pages. (Russian). 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]
• 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)

Articles

• B. M. Galeyev, "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.
• B. M. Galeyev, "The Fire of "Prometheus": Music-Kinetic Art Experiments in the USSR", Leonardo, Vol. 21, No. 4 (1988), pp 383-396.
• Bulat M. Galeyev, "The New 'Laokoön': A Periodic System of the Arts", Leonardo, Vol. 24, No. 4 (1991), pp 453-456. [3]
• Bulat M. Galeyev, "Modern Laokoön: Esthetic Problems of Synaesthesia Conference, Moscow, USSR, 21-22 January 1991", Leonardo, Vol. 24, No. 5 (1991) pp 505-507.
• Bulat Galeyev, "Kandinsky and Schoenberg: The Problem of Internal Counterpoint", Languages of Design 1 No. 2, (1993) pp 184-186.
• Bulat M. Galeyev, "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. [4]
• Bulat Galeyev, "Problem of synaesthesia in the arts", Languages of Design, vol. 1 (1993) pp 201-203.
• Bulat Galeyev, "On Maxim Gorky's synaethesia". (Russian)
• Bulat M. Galeyev, "Schoenberg/Kandinsky Symposium and the Academy of Light", Leonardo Vol. 27, No. 1 (1994) pp 3-5.
• Bulat M. Galeyev, "Farewell Prometheus Readings: Light-Music in the Former Soviet Union", Leonardo 27, No. 4 (1994) pp 351-352.
• Stan Voronin, "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.
• Bulat M. Galeyev, "Light from an Extinct Star: Music and Technology in the Former Soviet Union", Leonardo, Vol. 28, No. 1 (1995), pp 51-52.
• Bulat M. Galeyev, Review: The International "Ostranenie" Festival, Leonardo, Vol. 28, No. 1 (1995), pp 78-79.
• Bulat Galeyev, "On the true sources of light-music", Languages of Design 3, 33-44 (1996).
• B. M. Galeyev, "Institute "Prometei", Kazan, Russia (1962-1997)" 1997.
• Bulat M. Galeyev, "Russians Leave Europe", Leonardo, Vol. 31, No. 2 (1998), pp 142-143.
• B. M. Galeyev, "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, "What is synaesthesia: myth and reality", Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Vol. 7, No. 6 (1999)
• Bulat Galeyev, "Synaesthesia is not a psychic abnormality". Paper presented at the conference "Language, Vision & Music", August 1999, Galeway, Ireland.
• Bulat Galeyev, "Loftysickness of synesthesia or creative impotence of its interpreters?", in Conference Prometheus-2000. Collected theses, Kazan: FEN, 2000, pp.73-79.
• B. M. Galeyev, I. L. Vanechkina, "Was Scriabin a Synesthete?", Leonardo, Vol. 34, No. 4 (2001) pp 357-361. [5]
• B. M. Galeyev, "Are 'Cognitive Fossils' Significant for Art? Studies of Synesthesia in Normal and Abnormal Cases", Leonardo, Vol. 38, No. 4 (2005), pp 365-366. [6]
• Bulat Galeyev, "Mikhail Matyushin's Contribution to Synthetic Art", Leonardo, Vol. 38, No. 2 (2005), pp. 151-154.
• B. M. Galeyev, "The Nature and Functions of Synesthesia in Music", Leonardo, Vol. 40, No. 3 (2007), pp. 285-288.
• Bulat Galeyev, "Periodical System of Art", undated.
• Bulat Galeyev, "Computers and Art: Myths and Reality", undated.
• B. M. Galeyev, "Abstract Cinema and Light-Music", undated.
• B. M. Galeyev, "Spatial Music", undated.
• B. M. Galeyev, "Sound and Light Performances", undated.
• Bulat Galeyev, "Color hearing and affects theory". (Russian)
• Bulat Galeyev, "Color hearing and light-music". (Russian)
• Bulat Galeyev, "Color hearing: nature and functions of synaesthesia". (Russian)
• Bulat Galeyev, "To colour and light (evolution of gravitational synaesthesia inmusic)".
• Bulat Galeyev, "Korolenko as color hearing researcher". (Russian)
• Bulat Galeyev, "Problem of light-music and synaesthesia in the West and in the East" (Russian)
• Bulat Galeyev, "Synaesthesia is a form of non-verbal thinking". (Russian)
• Bulat Galeyev, "Synaesthesia in language and art of word". (Russian)
• Bulat Galeyev, "Synaesthesia is a miracle of poetic thinking". (Russian)
• Brian Droitcour, "The Prometheus Institute and the Work of Bulat Galeyev" 2009.
• Jörg Jewanski, "Obituary: Bulat Maxmudovich Galeyev (2 Oct. 1940 - 5 Jan. 2009)"

See also

• Prometei
• Media_art_in_CEE#Audiovisual_compositions