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The collaboration between Ilia Belorukov & Sara Zlanabitnig began in Novi Sad in June 2024. They had a short residency lasting several days, explored the acoustic and electronic sound combinations of their instruments as well as ambiental sounds and field recordings in the immediate surroundings of the city. This was not just a direct musical collaboration. Ilia and Sara integrated their sounds into the spaces in which they were played in. Out of using elements of free improvisation, electroacoustic techniques and compositional thinking they created «Binus» album which was released at kuda.org label in December 2024.

Ilia Belorukov is a musician from St. Petersburg, Russia, now based in Novi Sad, Serbia. He works in improvised, noise and electroacoustic music. Ilia practices an experimental approach to sound extraction using saxophone, modular synthesizers and other instruments. His works have been released on labels such as Clean Feed, SOFA, Moving Furniture, Astral Spirits, Notice Recordings, Raw Tonk, Mikroton and many others. He founded the Intonema label and was one of curators of Spina!Rec label. He has organized events in Saint Petersburg and elsewhere in Russia, and co-curated the Teni Zvuka and Spina!Fest festivals. Recent activities included writing reviews and articles for Jazzist website and as musicworm on Telegram channel as well as working as mixing and mastering engineer for own projects and different musicians and labels.

Sara Zlanabitnig is based in Vienna since 2005. She has dedicated her artistic interest to free improvised, experimental and electronic music, both as an active musician and as a cultural worker. She is an active part of the platform Frau*feld - for the visualization of female musicians*, the collective festival of the Viennese experimental music scene Jahresendzeitschokoladenhohlkörper, the cultural-political initiative mitderstadtreden and since the beginning of 2022 of the
artistic direction at echoraum. A diversity-oriented, progressive and non-commercial (sub-)attitude are key concerns for her. As a flutist, Sara Zlanabitnig prefers to move in and between the fields of electronic and freely improvised new music. She searches for unusual sounds, explores the possibilities of using electronics and prefers false fingerings as well as quarter tones, harmonics and multiphonics. Borders between music styles are very open to her.