Dig this music! Singing festival kicks off in Ural marble quarry

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Footage recorded on Saturday shows singers and musicians performing on the bottom of the Mramorskoye village’s operating marble quarry.

The singers, musicians and sculptors seen performing at the bottom of the quarry with some spectators watching from above.

“I am not a creative person. I am a doctor. Therefore, the way I saw it from above, it was some kind of colossal, spiritual, goose bumps went straight down the skin,” visitor Gulshan Dolonbayeva said.

“Maybe you can’t make any baroque details out of it, some nymphs with little fingers, but for such a monumental, modern plastic, this is a wonderful material. And there is a lot of it here. I hope it will be used it for what it’s worth,” Belarusian sculptor Kirill Krokhalev commented.

The performance is a part of the international annual arts festival held in this venue since 2019. In 2018 the festival kicked off with the Marble mile route. This year’s title is ‘Marble mile: identity forum.’ The event aimed at starting a creative cluster on the territory which has always been only industrial.

“We see this operating quarry with a depth of 70 metres, which looks like a Greek amphitheater. It came to our mind, why not use it as a concert venue. The sound diverges perfectly. We have already tried to play jazz, symphonic music, and ethnomusic here today. And we realised that people would like to not just to listen to music, but to be welcomed to some exclusive venue [at the same time] ... We see that this is the place, it kind of concentrates our cultural and historical codes of the territory,” Mramornaya Milya (Marble Mile) festival manager Elvira Samokhina added.

The quarry was discovered in the 18th century. Palaces and mansions in St Petersburg have used marble from the quarry, but this is the first time it has been used as a source for art.

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SOT, Elvira Samokhina, Mramornaya Milya (Marble Mile) festival manager (Russian): “Let’s start with the Marble Music Day. We are used to say Ural is an industrial territory. We want to show with our project that the Ural provide great opportunities for the cultural projects, moreover of an international level. Now we see this operating quarry with a depth of 70 metres, which looks like a Greek amphitheater. It came to our mind, why not use it as a concert venue. The sound diverges perfectly. We have already tried to play jazz, symphonic music, and ethnomusic here today. And we realised that people would like to not just to listen to music, but to be welcomed to some exclusive venue [at the same time] ... We see that this is the place, it kind of concentrates our cultural and historical codes of the territory.” *MUSIC AT SOURCE MAY BE SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT*

SOT, Gulshan Dolonbayeva, visitor (Russian): “I am not a creative person. I am a doctor. Therefore, the way I saw it from above, it was some kind of colossal, spiritual, goose bumps went straight down the skin. The sound, some kind of reflection, comes from the music itself from the marble. And the way I see it ... I just want to close my eyes and listen. And then you find yourself in some kind of nirvana. I had this feeling.”

SOT, Kirill Krokhalev, Belarusian sculptor (Russian): “It [marble] is absolutely suitable for sculpture for the style I work in. Maybe you can’t make any baroque details out of it, some nymphs with little fingers, but for such a monumental, modern plastic, this is a wonderful material. And there is a lot of it here. I hope it will be used it for what it’s worth.”

SOT, Luka Radoevich, Serbian sculptor (Russian): “This girl, so to say was created in the image of the Byzantine icon. And here I put it a little like a Russian kokoshnik (traditional Russian headdress). There I drew Serbian and Russian symbols behind, so that it would be like a connection between our fraternal peoples.”

SOT, Luka Radoevich, sculptor (Russian): “This is a good marble, it is easy to work with, but speaking of the details, it may be difficult, because it is a coarse one.”

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