Valentina Goncharova presents Every Growing Tree
For some artists, music experimentation and avant-garde emerge as natural expressions, fruits of years of evolution and artistic research. From a very young age, violinist Valentina Goncharova was immersed in chamber and classical music, studying first in Kyiv and later in Leningrad. By the 1970s, her interest expanded to contemporary composition, free jazz and underground rock, but when she found herself outside of those scenes, she felt compelled to craft her own sonic language. Together with her husband, she developed pickups for her violin, enabling multi-track and electronic manipulation to forge her unique sound. This way, Goncharova started exploring the electro-acoustic textures that now characterise her erratic improvised sets and meandrous compositions.
