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"I was born an Armenian in 1978 to the sounds of rockets taking off into space from Kazakhstan. I never boarded any of those rockets, and spent all my life living in various locations throughout Eurasia. Now I live in [[Prague]].  
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'''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.
  
I began my studies at the technical university in Kaluga, then studied at the musical academy in [[Moscow]], and later at the [[St. Petersburg]] film school. Today, I am a doctoral candidate at FAMU in Prague.
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* [http://www.cyland.org/site/english/events-en/7497 CAA#14 – George Bagdasarov], recording, 2013.
I have made various films as well as musical and visual works. I have even worked as a taxi driver. Some things have earned me awards, others haven't. But I have enjoyed them all.
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* http://www.myspace.com/georgebagdasarov
 
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* http://www.flickr.com/photos/subterrarium/2296463146/
What I do, I do as a nomad. I don't just move from place to place, but also from one field to the next. And sometimes I discover new pastures where I stay awhile." [http://www.rozhlas.cz/radiocustica_english/osoby/_zprava/568295]
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* [http://www.rozhlas.cz/radiocustica_english/osoby/_zprava/568295 George's profile on Rozhlas.cz]
 
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* [http://www.mediabaze.cz/page.php?artist=158 George's profile on Mediabaze.cz] (in Czech)
 
 
http://www.myspace.com/georgebagdasarov<br>
 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/subterrarium/2296463146/<br>
 
http://www.mediabaze.cz/page.php?artist=158
 

Revision as of 13:59, 23 August 2014

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.

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