This is a com­piled sam­pling of a few songs from VIVID MATTERS col­lab­o­ra­tive event per­formed by Lau­rence De Seve.
Lau­rence de Seve — com­poser, soprano lirico. Julia Tamarchenko — video.
Andrey Tamarchenko — painting

Vivid Mat­ters is an artis­tic col­lab­o­ra­tion between color and sound, mov­ing image and still paint, a woman and a tree — a dia­log both expressed and unspo­ken.
The point of depar­ture for this project has been a momen­tous con­ver­sa­tion with an ancient Lebanese cedar that has taken place on a bor­der of Lig­uria and Pied­mont in north­ern Italy.
To this ini­tial encounter Lau­rence De Seve brought her soprano lirico voice and a drum, Andrey Tamarchenko — paper, pas­tels and water­color, Julia Tamarchenko — a video cam­era and her eye.
The ancient tree brought a pow­er­ful energy full of vivid images and wis­dom that allowed the artists to go deeper into their artis­tic inquiry and process.
Vivid Mat­ters is the result — a com­bi­na­tion of poetry, music, oil paint­ings and draw­ings, video and per­for­mance, a cel­e­bra­tion of life in the cathe­dral of Nature trans­ported into a gallery/theater environment.

Here is “Labyrinth” — a video by Vladimir Kli­menchenko — a poetic record of a col­lab­o­ra­tive art event
that took place few years ago on a cer­tain hill­top in the Catskill Moun­tains of New York.

A 2 day art work­shop in Cre­molino, Italy. A group of friends cel­e­brate the mar­riage of Char­lotte Binoche and Oleg Yuriev
by cre­at­ing a mural together. It is based on their com­mon expe­ri­ence of the wed­ding itself which took place a few days
ear­lier in Fil­lols, France.