Artemiy Artemiev

Artemiy Artemiev is Russian composer who works in the style of electronic, electroacoustic and experimental music. He was born on the 13th of January, 1966 in the family of well-known Russian composer of electronic music Edward Artemiev (son of Эдуард Артемьев).
His profession is closely connected with film, theatre and TV-industry. From the period of 14 years (1989-2003) he composed music for more than 60 Russian feature films, 8 documentary films, 5 theatre plays, 2 soap-box operas, a radio play and a lot of TV-programs. He began his career as a keyboardist in various Moscow rock groups but in 1987 he quit rock music and began experimenting with sound, synthesizers, samplers and computers.
In 1997 he became a member of Russian Association of Electroacoustic music.
Since 1996 he produces TV-radio program "Electroshock" devoted to electronic, electroacoustic, experimental and avant-garde music. Also in 1996 along with his friend film-director and producer Vladimir Krupnitskiy he founded recording label "Electroshock Records".