Ignat Gorazd`s events and lines.

I consider myself a multimedia manipulator. I am in a search for a reason to enjoy life and crossing personal boundaries with sound and image. I am contributing to free and open society by sharing my works to Public Domain through the Creative Commons licensing. I was born in Riga on the Baltic sea, a capital of Latvia. During my life the whole country and its residents have transited from soviet to European identity. I've witnessed that move being local resident then I have started my own transition to become an islander. In a year 2004 I've moved to the London, United Kingdom. I have graduated in the University of the Arts London, College of Communication. I have had residency of one month in Kingston 5, Jamaica. Afterwhile I've moved east to another island nation. Till now I live in Ota Tokyo. I love to be an islander. My lifelong artistic project is about aspects of the Moving Identity. It is about how you move without moving or stay yourself while in motion. Theater stage and performance art: Get involved in amateurs/student theatrical activity by cooperation in sound design and production with "Le Courant" group - collective of students of Latvian Art Academy and Latvian Academy of Culture, "Cuska mele slepjas zale" - Zirgu pasts, Riga, 1998 "Swing project" - Zirgu pasts, Riga, 1998 then I have joined group as a stage performer of Artaud’s "Le jet de sang" at Riga’s "Skatuve" theater, Latvian Academy of Culture stage in 1999 them we went to International Amateurs Theater festival in France "Le jet de sang" at the ART’scéne - Festival International des Arts de la Scéne, Vaugnere, France, 2000 after I moved to London I got involved with the Malte Schlösser directed group as light designer and light performer for the "Yearning in fear 2", Shunt lounge, London, autumn 2007 then there was a cooperation of students of UAL's and Tel-Aviv's School of Visual Theatre My contribution consisted of the light and sound design and it's performance for the staging of King Solomon's "Shir-ha-Shirim" aka "The Song of Songs", Central St Martins, London, Spring 2009 then I took part in a work on sound design and sound performance for "The Confessions of the st. Augustine and Guy Debord" working title, Central St Martins, London, Summer 2009 Since I moved to Tokyo I have performed catwalking for the White Mountaineering AW 2012 collection at Yoyogi National Gymnasium Graphic design, illustration and photography: Stared Artworking for Varka Kru then moved to freelancing as a graphical artist and photographer, I have studied various creative techniques in UAL LCC including screen print and studio photography. Member of Japan Danube Photo club and annual club exhibitions. Some of my photos is on Flickr. Music, poetry and underground club scene: Having been a music lover since childhood I made my way on the music stage as a technician and a tour sound operator with Yaputhma Sound System disco collective in 1996. Later on, I started performing sound FX support for Djs and also started to spin records myself. My first take on dj's decks was at big beach Sound System of Spin-Out windsurf/music event in Kolka Cape in the year 1997. With fellow dj friends we came up with an idea to establish our own jungle music crew - the Värka Kru. Freaking out underground club scene with excessive bass across the Baltics and beyond. Key events and series performed or/and organised, to mention a few: New Media festivals, like Art+Communication, Artgenda, Polar Circuit, Passport:Music, Passport:Video; Jungle music festivals: Down to the Tunnels, European Drum and Bass Convention, Spy:seed Jungle, Connections, Subterminal, POSTeleRadio netcasting etc. You can find few recorded mixes and experimental tracks on the Soundcloud. Field stereo recordings, at Freesound.org. Videography: Riga in motion - idea and camera - linear non cut edit of environmental documentary, SVHS, around the year 1996 Trip from Riga to the Karosta - idea, camera - audio photo slides show, miniDV, 1998 Me Remote - idea, acting, camera, cut - kind of time lapse video with me on remote control, miniDV, 1998 Värka - Bass Shell - director, camera, visuals - documentary roadtrip of Värka Kru tour to Vilnius, miniDV, 1998 Misnk in Motion - ideas, camera - documentary video film on winter trip to Belarus, miniDV, 2000 London chillin' - idea, camera - documentary video, 2008 The Game of War - second unit cameraman - documentary video, miniDV, 2009 One Love Jamaica festival - camera - short video of live reggae performance, DSLR 60D, 2012, Yoyogi, Tokyo. Annual documentrary video production of Sakura festival in Magome , Ota, from 2011 Annual documentary video production of Kitano Jinja Matsuri of Magome, Ota from 2011