Ruslan Bozhok
Composer · sound engineer · producer
Different fields, one mastery: the ability to tune a person’s state. It grew on two grounds — in sound (a composer with absolute pitch, an ASCAP member) and in psychology (the Ericksonian approach, NLP, years of counselling). Today it all converges in one pursuit.
◆ SOUND · from ear to audio algorithms (DSP)
- age 6Piano, accordion, guitarabsolute pitch found at 8
- age 12Computers and programmingserious books, not games
- age 17His own studio’80s music meets synth craft
- 2006The Synth Dimension projectspacesynth / synthpop, “more melodic than most”
- 2008Sound engineer for televisionuniversity degree, with honours
- →His own audio enginereal-time binaural synthesis
◆ PSYCHOLOGY & LAW · from law to relationships
- 1998Law school at 16early entry — finished school externally
- 2003Certified NLP PractitionerPligin Center for NLP in Education, Moscow
- 2004The Ericksonian approachcertificate of mastery
- ~2005Counselling on male–female relationshipsthree years of private practice
- →Sound built on the laws of perceptionan Ericksonian arc, in sound
Ruslan has worked with sound professionally for over twenty-five years. His own studio since seventeen; his project Synth Dimension — seven releases on labels across Britain and Europe, published and protected to the letter of the law. Here sound is not a hobby but a profession, with a name and papers behind it.
Classic ’80s electronic sound, made in a modern studio on the latest gear and exclusive vintage hardware; influences — Space, Modern Talking, Laserdance, italo-disco. “Melody and harmony over rhythm.”
| Year | Release | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Dreams Of Electronic Mind — debut album (14 tracks) | Synth Dimension | Album |
| 2007 | Alpha Centauri Megamix Vol. 2 | Alpha Centauri (UK) | Track |
| 2008 | Spacesound Records Megamix Vol. 1 | Space Sound Rec. | Track |
| 2008 | Space Holidays Vol. 1 | — | Track |
| 2011–18 | Radio Of Aliens Vol. 1–3 (incl. “Spacesynth Tribute To Gagarin”) | Laser Visa | Track |
“Dreams of Electronic Mind” — reg. SRu 927-199, effective December 18, 2009. Author: Ruslan Bozhok, dba Synth Dimension (sound recording + music). Year of creation 2006. Claimant — the same (U.S. claimant address).
Tracks: Intro · Digital Computer · Another Dimension · Flying Up Circles · Synthesized Ghost of the 80's · Dreams of Electronic Mind · Hypnotic Atmospheres · Morphing Elevator · Race on the Time Machine · Light and Laser Impulses
The idea behind all of Ruslan’s work with sound was born not in a studio but at Lake Baikal. In the summer of 2005 he travelled these shores himself; in 2006, living by the lake, he launched the “Energetic Audio from Baikal” project — not music, but field recordings of the places themselves: the wind over Olkhon, the water, the silence of the sacred rocks. It was then that the thought which guides him to this day first took shape — that sound can hold and carry the energy of a place. With that project, in 2006, Ruslan was twenty years ahead of his time.
Shamanka Rock on Olkhon is one of Asia’s most revered places of power — a living trace of a shamanic cult. That early idea — sound holds the energy of a place — became the direct ancestor of the provenance approach in his work today: sound assembled from a real place and sky.
“…The energy of Baikal is possible to imprint and render exactly through the sound.” — baikalmystic.com, 2006
Different fields — sound and psychology — add up, in one person, to a single thing: creating genuine experience.
Absolute pitch since childhood, years at the mixing desk and behind the synths, membership of ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), musical works registered with the U.S. Library of Congress, training in the Ericksonian approach and NLP, a counselling practice, field recordings of Baikal’s unique places and of genuine ancient shamanic rites in their natural setting — these are not résumé lines but one continuous line the length of a life.
“In an age when everyone is trying to make something out of almost nothing, value shifts toward real lived experience, built on solid ground.” — Ruslan Bozhok