Kasich

The Sevastopol, Crimea native completed undergraduate and graduate studies in Psychology (Lomonsov’s Moscow State University) that overlapped with five years of study at the studio Theremin Center for Electroacoustic Music in Tchaikovsky’s Moscow State Conservatory. Seeing a need to build sound art and experimentation-oriented communities in Russia, he initiated the Russian sound art community SoundArtist.ru in 2011. In 2014 he further developed this initiative into the SA))_gallery (Russia’s first ongoing sound art gallery) and the SA))_studio (an artist-run studio for experimental sound and multimedia arts). Through the yearly Podgotovlenniye Sredy Festival of experimental sound, which he established in 2009 in Moscow, Sergey hosted one of Russia’s first electrical sound walks with invited artist Christina Kubisch (2013, supported by Goethe-Institut Moscow), as well as countless performances, workshops, and other events with Russian and international artists. Kasich has participated in the 2015 Prix Ars Electronica jury (Digital Musics and Sounds Arts), and produced a Russian Sound Art Showcase for that same edition. He performed at the Takamatsu Media Art Festival in Japan in 2015. In 2017 he performed for V-A-C Foundation together with Alexei Borisov at Geometry of Now festival c/o GES-2 House of Culture, Moscow. In 2018 he presented his FingerRing technique at the NIME conference (Virginia Tech University, USA), and offered several months of FingerRing seminars at New York’s HARVESTWORKS Digital Media Arts Center. He curated Russian Sound Art Showcase for New York’s Electronic Art Festival in 2019. In 2023 he continues his research activities at the University of California.