Grundik & Slava

Grundik+Slava is the long time collaboration between Igor Grundik Kasyansky and Slava Smelovsky. They first met in 1994 in Israeli Bar-Ilan University. Slava studied computer science and Grundik was a poet. Very soon they found themselves producing sounds often using intuition and chance as doubtful substitution of knowledge and experience. Anyway it was a perfect combination, diabolic mixture of physics and lyrics. Slava gradually changed his life approach into the metaphysical one (which clearly harmed his career as software engineer) and Grundik bought his first computer.

It took them five years to release their debut album One Second before the Planet Blows Up on the underground Jerusalem label Fact. And it took them another three months to emerge as the key figures at the small but active Israeli experimental and electronic scene. In 2001 Grundik has married and moved to New York, so now they call themselves sometimes intercontinental project. Today Grundik+Slava continue to release albums, perform live, construct installations, write music for film, video, theatre and dance and do other interesting things.