MICHAIL GOLEMINOV’S SOUNDSCAPES – A STEP AHEAD

The article portrays one of Bulgaria’s leading composers of the past few decades, who has received international recognition, particularly in the field of electroacoustic music. Michail Goleminov (1956-2022) composed scores for chamber and symphony orchestras. He was a multi-media artist and author of various programming applications, notation games, and generative software. He specialized in musical notation with long years of professional experience as an editor at the Vienna-based Doblinger Publishers and an active pianist and performer of free improvisations. Goleminov completed his musical education in Bulgaria but left for Austria at the age of 28, where he resided, studied, and worked for 16 years. In 2000/2001, he returned to Bulgaria and created Orange Factory Psychoacoustic Arts, an experimental studio for contemporary art, along with pianist Angela Tosheva. They have organized concerts, festivals, master classes, and competitions for musical compositions, published books, and released audio and video productions and multi-media applications at various levels. The duo was also actively engaged in educational activities. Together they carried out more than 250 projects over the years 2001-2022.