Aposition Creative Union

The International APOSITSIA Music Forum is an annual festival gathering musicians from different countries working in new areas of new music, electroacoustic, experimental, free improvising and ethnic music. 

      
Forum is organized by the APosition Creative Union with the support and help from cultural organizations, like CEC Artslink, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Goethe Institute, cultural departments of the foreign diplomatic representatives in Russian Federation. 

APOSITSIA Music Forum consists of 3–4 days of concerts at one of the city concert halls, a series of “gigs” at local clubs, master classes and a conference dedicated to music, culture and philosophy. 

Goals and objectives: 
– to present Russian audience with achievements in modern deep music from all over the world
– to promote development of infrastructure of non pop-music projects in Saint-Petersburg like experimental, non-commercial oriented music and related art forms
– to provide an opportunity for Russian and foreign musicians to learn from each other, share and create music together, discuss common concerns, ideas and projects.
 

For the last seven years APOSITSIA festival gave St. Petersburg audience a unique opportunity to hear many of the famous American artists, i.e. Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros, Phillip Glass, Hamid Drake and William Parker, Phill Niblock, David Moss, Frank London, Henry Kaiser, Gary Lucas, Charles Gayle, Rhys Chatham by the names of few. 

APosition Creative Union has 10 years experience in organizing events, promoting non commercial experimental art.
 

Organized concerts of : minimalism godfather Terry Riley, legendary Polish prog rock band SBB, Peter Brotzmann, Pierre Moerlen’s Gong, Hans Reichel & Rudiger Carl, Charles Gale, German krautrock pioneers Faust, Lars Holmer, Kimmo Pohjonen, Keith & Julia Tippett, Frank London, Tenores di Bitti, Iranian classical collective by Reza Moafi, Han Bennink, Kampec Dolores, Italian avant rock – free jazz combo Zu, Willem Broeker Kollektieff, Misha Mengelberg, Otomo Yoshihide, Gjallarhorn, Shelley Hirsh, Eugene Chadbourne, Damo Suzuki, mugam master from Azerbajan Alim Kasymov, Michel Berkmans of Univers Zero, Keshavan Maslak, modern Dutch composer Theo Loevendie, Je Chun Park, John Cale of Velvet Underground, Holger Czukay, Fred Frith, Slave Pianos, Magma, Henry Kaiser, John Oswald, Hamid Drake, William Parker, Gary Lucas, David Moss, David Murray, genuine avant garde acordeonist Pauline Oliveros, Marco Enieidi, Lou Grassi, Tim Hodgkinson, Jacques Di Donato, Хavier Charles, Didier Lasserre, Finnish vocal quartet Me Naiset, Christian Brazier, De Kift, Moscow Art Trio, Milan Svoboda, Canadian violinist Nash the Slash, Lukas Ligeti, Soren Runolf and Dror Feiler, Mark Stewart from Bang on a Can, royal Koren ensemble Ge Um Hwe ...