Film Music & Compositions

Directed by: F. W. Murnau
Script: Henrik Galeen 
Camera: Fritz Arno Wagner
Music: Vlady Bystrov (2006, 2018)

Composition for prepared piano, woodwind instruments and live-electronics. Nosferatu is considered one of the first representatives of the horror film and one of the most important works of cinema in the world. For this particular film, Phil Minton, an avant-garde vocal artist from London, is considered a fixture in the scene of free improvisers, with "sheer unbelievable and uncanny sounds, for which there is nothing like them anywhere". Alistair MacDonald, Professor of Electronic Music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and Vlady Bystrov on the woodwinds, playing live for a gruesome event (Video 2006, Video 2018).

Directed by: Robert Wiene
Music: Vlady Bystrov (2018)

Compostion for prepared piano, woodwind instruments, violin, percussion and electronics. One of the early Expressionist films is considered a prime example of the Expressionist style in film and marks a milestone in film history. This film is presented here by the interdisciplinary Ensemble Megaphone with Lenka Zupkova on the violin and electronics, Willi Hanne on the percussion and sound objects, and Vlady Bystrov on the electronically prepared piano and woodwind instruments (Video).

Directed by: N. Khodataev, Z.Komisarenko and Y. Margolenko
Music: Vlady Bystrov (2018)

Composition for prepared piano and winds. First Soviet science-fiction cartoon, which is assigned to the Soviet propaganda films. It shows the export of the revolution from Earth to Mars. It predicts a struggle between capitalists and communists in space, but with imaginative, surrealistic humor and quasi-Dadaist caricatures (Video).

Directed by: Yakov Protazanov
Script: Writers Aleksei Fajko, Fyodor Otsep
Music: Vlady Bystrov (2018)

Composition for prepared piano, woodwind instruments and electronics. The film is historically significant and had a pioneering influence on the development of the genre "Science Fiction" in theater and film (Video).

Directed by: Sergej Eisenstein, Grigori Alexandrow
Music: Vlady Bystrov (2018)

Composition for prepared piano, woodwind instruments and electronics. Sergei Eisenstein's film was commissioned by the CPSU Executive Committee to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution. Filmed in original locations and with veterans of historical events, the film traces the revolution and comments on it with suggestive montages and ironic image inventions (Video).

Directed by: Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Script: Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Music Vlady Bystrov (2009)

For electronic sounds and instant remix of D. Schostakovich’s music from the original soundtrack from 1931.

Directed by: Fritz Lang
Script: Thea von Harbou
Music: Vlady Bystrov (2008)
Length: ca. 160 Minutes

As part of the piano festival "Tastentaumel im Braunschweiger Land", the International Filmfestival Braunschweig presented the German film classic "Woman in the Moon" by Fritz Lang in a musical premiere at the Small House of the State Theater Braunschweig on March 5th. Vlady Bystrov had specially written a new music for prepared piano, woodwind instruments and surround live electronics (Video).

Directed by: Lotte Reiniger
Script: Lotte Reiniger
Music: Vlady Bystrov (2007)

Composition for prepared piano, wooden and ethnic instruments. Lotte Reiniger is the first cartoonist in the world to become famous. In 1926 she created the first long cartoon in the world and invented an amazing technique that made her famous. She skilfully designed paper-cut figures. Artfully cut out of paper, they became heroes of a fairytale adventure (Video).