Valentin Afanasyev
Acting
Biography
From the noble family of Afanasyev. He was born in Chernivtsi in the family of architect V.Afanasyev. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in the violin class of Professor B.A.Sergeev in 1972. As a violinist, he worked in many Leningrad orchestras: Radio and Television, the Maly Opera and Ballet Theater named after M.P.Mussorgsky, the Musical Comedy Theater, the State Symphony Orchestra, etc. At the same time he was engaged in painting and took part in exhibitions of Leningrad nonconformists. Valentin Afanasyev is known for inventing a unique system of functional ratios of colors and sounds, which makes it possible to perceive music in color. The system of color-sound relations includes the discovery of patterns that must be obeyed by certain groups of colors for the adequate manifestation of the algorithm contained in the musical notation. The spaces of melody and tonality of functional relations are defined. For the first time in history, it has been shown that the same sound can be characterized by three different colors depending on the spatial positions they occupy.
Known For
The film is an allegory in which the attempt is made to show the inner process of movement of the composer's soul at the time of the birth of music.
The Birth of Music
Valentin Afanasyev, an artist, musician and scientist, and his wife, Princess Vera Obolenskaya, talk about how you can meet by chance at the ball of the revived Noble Assembly and stay together for life, despite all the obstacles and difficulties. And also about how sound and color actually relate from a scientific point of view, in the light of Valentin Afanasyev's discovery, and what the artist, who started out as a representative of the Soviet underground, is doing now.
DIALOGUES AT THE FACTORY. The 4th meeting. Valentin Afanasyev and Princess Vera Obolenskaya
A true story, set in the future. About seeds and genetic diversity, about growth and decay, about love and war, about hunger of all kinds. About what it means to be human, even when all your humanity is stripped away.