No excuses: "Everyone creates their worlds ..." - An interview with musician Vladimir Rudakov
Motivation Inspiration / / December 19, 2019
Vladimir Rudak - man, woven of creativity. He first appeared on stage in the 18th. Music, lyrics - his element.
With a creative way, Vladimir did not even hit by a spinal injury he received at age 23. On the contrary, life has proved - a talented person is talented in everything.
For music literature was added, followed by - the cinema. In 2013 Vladimir received the award "The new intellectuals" for their documentary films.
You want to meet with Vladimir and his work more closely? Welcome to a cat.
smoke of the Fatherland
- Hello, Vladimir! Thank you to our "light." :)
- Hello, Anastasia! Glad that I was invited.
- Once the governor of your native Petrozavodsk Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin said: "Fatherland, and the smoke is sweet to us." And you sweet "smoke" in Petrozavodsk?
- If we talk specifically about the smoke, some do not. :) And I like Petrozavodsk. I have the experience of living in a big city - once spent much time in Moscow. But it turns out, many things can be done at a distance, while living in a small town.
- But in Karelia beautiful nature ...
- Many people say, "Oh, you there's so beautiful!". And we say: "But you have there so warm!". :) When you live near this nature, to treat it safely. In fact, in Karelia little sun. Romantic period, when you can admire and be inspired by the beauty of nature, very short. Many "Twilight."
- Do not want to succumb to hedonistic sentiment, and wait out the winter somewhere in Thailand?
- Not my kind of activity. I am a musician, I have my own team. Giving concerts and rehearsals by Skype are unlikely to succeed. :) And a movie shoot, too.
If I leave, my creative work somewhere to disappear and I'll be just a false sun warmed, wheelchairs.
- Vladimir, tell us a little about your childhood.
- Maybe it will seem strange, but I'm not used to look into the past. Childhood memories - a white cloud with pellets, "bryzgalku" football and other amusements of Soviet children. It is difficult to specify, but I like my childhood. :)
- What you wanted to become when you grow up?
- Taxi Driver! Dad and I went to my grandmother in the taxi, "Volga". A taxi driver was so cool cap. Therefore, contrary to the dreams of Soviet children, I would not become an astronaut, and a taxi driver.
- Your parents are also creative people?
- Not. My parents are working. Mom worked at the mica factory, his father - a plumber. However, my mother sang in the choir. But I think that musical vein of my grandfather - he was a trumpet player.
dolt
- Do you remember your first school "2"?
- There were so many... :) I was an excellent student, but he was not malicious bully. Rather, I was, as they say, gouging. I loved to draw attention, gag, joke. For this I much "written off". Teachers are not kept my satirical comments and could not maintain the rigor.
At the same time, ironically, I was in the Exemplary School. There was even a joke. Us troechnikov, left "in the fall", or rather we went to summer classes to clean up "tails."
It so happened that at this time the school has arrived delegation of some African countries. Honors will not collect - all on vacation. Therefore, we, troechnikov urgently rites in pioneering form and sent a delegation to meet. Guests, in general, do not even know how mediocre students to welcome them on behalf of the Soviet education. :)
- How in the hands of "gouging" was a guitar?
- Once I was resting in a camp. There was one fellow who, as I then thought, a very nice singing a song about some horse (like - red). I was very fascinated possession of the instrument. He showed me three chords.
A little later, I bought a guitar (as I remember - it was worth 3 rubles). I tune it really did not know how, but in 15 years, already being penned songs.
- And, perhaps, after the school you went to a music school?
- After school I went to where, as many of my peers, not to learn. Once it was "putyaga" as we called it - "habzayka". This is a place where teachers do not have much to do with the disciples, and the disciples to what teachers say.
I have mastered the profession of electrics. But it was for me, "staging post". I wanted to wait and prepare to enter the Theater Institute. I was engaged in a drama school. I was very attracted to the theater. In general, work beckoned and hold.
At age 18, I went on stage performing with his first band ...
- You know, your story is somewhat reminiscent of the fate of Viktor Tsoi. He, too, was from an ordinary family, not very eager to learn and eventually went to work in the boiler room, from which he emerged a great musician.
- Perhaps you `re right. At least, I have often been compared with Tsoi. They say we have something in common in sound and lyrics.
world music
- Vladimir, in the title, we usually write "an interview with the owner ...", "an interview with the artist ..." etc. How to introduce you? After all, you - a musician and writer, and filmmaker.
- This is my three whale. I can not give something to the palm. All this is equally addictive me. All engaged in the same time.
But speaking in chronological order, it was the music first. Then came the literature. And in 2005 he began to make films.
- So, in 18 years you took the stage with his band. What was the team?
- It was a group of "PBC". Then it was fashionable to call abbreviations revolutionary groups. And before that it was even a group of "neutral waters." Her students were college of inland navigation, based on which we rehearsed. To me, as no student of this institution, it was impossible to pass. But the guys gave me his hat, overcoat, and so I penetrated into the territory. :)
- What kind of music do you play then?
- You could say we had a "Branch" St. Petersburg rock-club. We listened and Shevchuk, and "Alice" and "Auction" and "Picnic", and, of course, "Cinema". We played something similar.
- And how did the group "Who else could?"
- It was in 1997. I already had an injury. I lay on the couch. But we guitarist Fedor Astasheva played songs rehearsed.
- the same genre?
- Not. I would call it - world music. Now we listen not only Leningrad musicians, but in general all of the music. Our music is everything - and the elements of folk music, reggae and rock 'n' roll.
I like to experiment. Search, learn and borrow in all genres. I do not like to walk in a circle.
- There are musicians for whom the melody is paramount, and there are musicians who like to text more. You from what?
- I guess I have a musical base is the support of the text. But the musician can not set ourselves the task: write-ka I biting tone and frivolous text.
In music, the simplicity of the main.
You can navstavlyat chords, make a bunch of syncopation, load arrangement - to make a complex work that no one will remember and not repeat. All hits are simple. There are many such songs Smokie. Simple melody and a simple text difficult to compose.
- Do you have such a simple, yet challenging song?
- I am not inclined to complication - I have a lot of simple songs.
I noticed how much we did not play the songs on the concert, still at the end people come and say, "Why are not played?" "And what's that song did not sing?". Each person has their own songs that they love and know by heart.
But there is one song. It is called the "North" and the like, and children and adults, and the elderly and the young.
"Oh, is now all writers!"
- You are a member of the Union of Young Writers in Karelia. You have a few books. As a person who works with the word, you probably watch the modern literary environment. Tell me you have it competitors?
- I do not think about it. I'm afraid to imagine how many people in our country wrote. And he writes well. Our country is rich in talent, especially literature. Sometimes I read some things, but I do not see the author competitor - one creates their worlds.
I often say that I have my own style. And it's important to me. I'm not in the tops of modern Russian writers, not chasing all sorts of "bookers". Just write. Something comes out. Prize awarded to them. Elena Mukhina (nomination "And the word will respond ..."). Some print magazines ( "New Youth", "Southern Star", "Sever», Carelia). It comes to the reader - this is good.
So, it makes no sense to burn some competition. You just need to work on yourself.
- You were right - many well-written. And you do not get annoyed when you see bad texts, such as the Internet?
- No, not annoying. Now many of gall say, "Oh, is now all writers!", "Oh, is now open to all photographers!". And it pleases me.
I am glad that people are buying cameras, shoot, engaged in creative work. I like that people have more opportunities for creativity and self-expression.
Finally, people have removed the shackles, if the cinema belongs to a narrow circle of specialists, that literature - these are the people who live in a 5-room mansion with government villas. Contemporary writers largely ascetic - just glad that they are read.
Therefore, do not irritate me bad texts. Let people write, try their hand.
- Do I understand correctly that the literature for you - not a commercial project?
- For me literature - is something intimate. I am a creative egotist.
I remember my feelings in the first minutes, when he finished writing his first novel. It was an indescribable thrill! Killing someone in the pages of tabloid knizhets - for me it is a waste of time, life and creative powers. And I want to get from your creative pleasure.
Let it will read a small number of people, but with interest and benefit. I love it when people get a benefit, even when laughing. :)
- How do you feel about the criticism in the address?
- Of course, it is not honey. But when I first started and asked knowledgeable people to evaluate their texts, I said to myself: "Now you'll get a free consultation from a professional. You can agree or not. But it's free. " :)
Fortunately, just the first story immediately came out in a thick journal, it was the reader's interest. The reviews were good. Of course, I was inspired.
Tough guys do not dance
- Since 2005, do you do a movie. Is it a small music and literature?
- Creativity does not happen much.
When a person starts to do something, he always wondered what dividends it bring me? Therefore, I am often asked why I movie, because it does not make money.
But this movement of the soul. I wanted to make a film for a long time. But I do not quite understand how it all done.
In addition, I was confused state of affairs with respect to people with disabilities in the film. We did others. Among us a lot of fun interesting people living a full life. In the movie you see very different ...
Therefore, we have removed trash-thriller involving wheelchairs - "Tough guys do not dance". Filming all summer. We showed it at the film festival "Cinema Without Barriers".
- You've done it from scratch?
- Yes. All on its own. Without money. For the idea. The result we liked.
I realized that it does not matter whether you have money, whether there is a technical possibility, the main thing that was the idea. Take off that is. Do not wait until someone gives money. You can look for them in parallel, but you do. This is your experience.
- What followed after this film?
- Then there was the movie "Placebo", the picture "WELCOME", Which he received an award from the magazine "Seance" for originality of form.
- And how did the "new planet"? ( "New planet" - a series of documentary films Vladimir and Roodaka Alexey Babenko of people with additional needs. - approx. author)
– "New Planet" - is part of the great author of the project "Rehabilitation of disabled people through cinema." Within its framework, we, on the one hand, rehabilitate disabled people in the public eye, and on the other - rehabilitate the disabled themselves, teaching them a new way, an introduction to the work.
I for this project was awarded the "New Intelligentsia 2013".
I have many friends, whose way of life, whose position is very much like me. I wanted to show them life. Their options are limited. They are not heroes. Just interesting people.
Therefore, we avoid the voice over, do not ask people something special to do on camera. Just agree, when a person is at work, busy with some kind of their own thing, come with operator Alexey Babenko and quietly remove. We try not to interfere.
We show the real life of people with disabilities. Not "squeezing out" of artificial emotion, without pathos and pity.
To date, two series filmed. First about Vera Gavrilin, in which the family has two children, work... And the second about Anna Yablokov - it is a professional psychologist.
I would like to make a series of movies that you can then show to students in educational institutions.
buffering
- Vladimir, you are such a multifaceted person. How to find all the time?
- If there is inspiration, there is time. The song is being written in 5 minutes, if you have something to say.
- What inspires you?
- A life. :) You can not predict what you will inspire. Any phrase, any event can push on the creation of stories.
- And what to do in moments of creative crisis?
- Wait. I refer to the length of time when nothing is written and composed, buffering. Issuing some material, a person should drink emotions, impressions, so it was, that once again say. It is not necessary to rinse the same clothes in the same water.
- Our special project called "No excuses." As you can imagine for yourself the phrase?
- Excuses find easiest. This is what we talked about with you, when we are talking about the movie. Many people want to take pictures, but justified, there is no money, no technical capabilities.
We can all do something about it, regardless of whether there is a disability or not.
Excuses - this crafty way to do nothing.
- Wish anything Layfhakera readers. This is our tradition.
- Someone motivate - it is the same that make throwing smoke smoker. :) Man matures like fruit, and not yet ripe ...
But back to the title of your project, try not to look for excuses!
- Thank you for the interview, Vladimir!
- And thank you!