A meditation on publishing and purpose in educational institutions. 20 page single-color risograph zine.
Words by me, design by Kevin.
Site-specific installation for the bathroom of KO-OP gallery in Sofia. Let the water play is a music album made out of rare Bulgarian songs. It turns the public toilet into a space for music discovery: an antithesis to streaming platforms.
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Postcard set for Let The Water Play. Featuring quotes that inspired the installation and my views on music as a whole.
Designed & printed by Yana.
On sale at The Kopy Shop.
β On Are.na
A series of four laptop performances using a custom SuperCollider synth controlled by the active processes on your computer.
Collaboration with Darwin.
β On YouTube
Music video for Every Technical Problem Has a Technical Solution, the soundtrack I created for the experimental dance performance SHIFT.
Created by analyzing a recording of the dancers using the pose estimation model YOLOv7.
β On YouTube
Every Technical Problem Has a Technical Solution is the soundtrack for the experimental dance performance SHIFT - a story about the evolution of humanity and the search for eternal life. Inspired by cybernetics, Arca and 90s Bulgarian chalga.
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An email newsletter about Bulgarian internet culture.
β On Substack (in Bulgarian)
β On Substack (in English)
The Drum/Drama Machine is a hybrid drum machine and drone generator.
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Iβm building a low-tech digital camera for my senior CS thesis at Yale.
(more info coming soon)
Ramonia is a 12-track plunderphonics concept album about Bulgaria, internet culture, nostalgia and the remnants of socialism. Recorded, produced, mixed & mastered by me in my bedroom throughout 2020. Featured in The Yale Herald, Capital and the albums of the year of the Bulgarian Music Association.
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Music video from my album Ramonia. Created using 400 photographs from the Bulgarian Visual Archive. A blink-of-an-eye journey through the twentieth century.
β On YouTube
Workshop for the Yale Open Music Initiative (OMI). Taught students the basics of recording and editing audio, and we created a collaborative royalty free sample pack.
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Kosmos? is a generative art project exploring the legacy of the legendary Bulgarian popular science magazine.
Exhibited at KO-OP Sofia as a part of NO ARTIST CAN PREDICT THE FUTURE?
Kaloβs Stem Player is a performable music player. It plays 4 parts of a song simultaneously, which you can turn on and off while they're looping.
Project for CPSC334 at Yale - Creative Embedded Systems. Inspired by the Yeezy/Kano/Teenage Engineering stem player (but with cute insect stickers!)
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Research published in the Bulgarian Journal of Science & Education Policy. Discusses the issues with the Bulgarian high school exit exam and proposes ways to make it better.
β On Google Scholar
An electro-acoustic alarm clock that rings at the end of the work day.
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A Spotify playlist and ongoing research project exploring forgotten Bulgarian disco songs from the extensive back catalog of the state label Balkanton.
β On Spotify
An interactive installation that offers a novel way to discover art by matching a user's pose to a portrait from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
β Video demo
A soapbox car I built with Tani, Georgi & Stoil.
Won first place at Red Bull Soapbox Sofia 2018. We were the youngest competitors and still in school, so we themed our car after a classroom desk :')
I learned Cinema 4D when I was 13 because I really wanted to make Minecraft animations. This was my masterpiece.
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I made this stop-motion animation when I was 11 and won a massive Star Wars ship from an official Lego contest.
β On YouTube