The presentation will take place in the bookstore Pioner Bookstore. It will be attended by publishers Pavel Kostrikin, Evgeny Gapeev (Geometry), leader of the "Extended Day Group" Alexander Chernetsky, artist and composer Igor Kalinauskas, organizers and ideological inspirers of the First Annual Music and Television Award "Aurora" Igor Shcherbakov and Vladimir Ignatiev , as well as representatives of the family Sergei Kuryokhin. Moderator - Alexander Kushnir. After the presentation at the Pioneer cinema, the restored version of the film "Ono" will be shown. Journalist, music producer, general director of music and information agency "Kushnir Production", author of several books about Soviet and Russian music, including "Sergey Kuryokhin. Mad Mechanics of Russian Rock, Alexander Kushnir answered several questions for "Morning". "Morning": Does "Pop Mechanics" exist in any form now and have its representatives or followers remained? Alexander Kushnir: Within the framework of "Pop Mechanics" Kurekhin collaborated with a huge number of St. Petersburg musicians, artists, filmmakers, politicians, scientists, psychologists. And they all took an active part in his performances. It seemed that in a new era the Captain used for his "orchestra of crazy music" all the options and ways to influence the viewer. In the concert program "I Look at the Blue Lakes", the maestro was shown a naked harpist on stage and wrapped in a foil with an icon of the Soviet stage, Eduard Gil, who sang "The Tales of the Viennese Forest", and hundreds of rabbits ran under his feet. At one of the press conferences Kuryokhin threatened to attack the BKZ Oktyabrsky Hall with bacteria, and literally a month later he planted the poet Prigov behind the wheel of an excavator in the theatrical performance "Kolobok". In the early 90's, active participation in his concerts hosted the duo Duo Zikr, consisting of Igor Silin and Olga Tkachenko. Within the framework of the performance "Three steps in delirium" they framed Captain's monologues with spiritualized throat singing, and it was completely unclear where the sound came from. The music of Zikr was also strange and unusual for a hungry country: folk, retro, world music, mantras and psalms. As Igor Silin said, "an introduction to practical magic for lovers of art". In addition to joint concerts of Duo Zikr'a with Kuryokhin in St. Petersburg, Berlin, Kazakhstan, avant-garde friends organized several more projects. Among them - the publishing house Meduza, aimed at producing a variety of esoteric literature (from the two-volume Anthology of Gnosis to the History of Psychoanalysis in Russia). Another important direction is the creation of independent record companies that published both solo projects of Duo Zikr'a and Kuryohin, as well as albums by Grebenshchikov, BG-Band and other St. Petersburg bands. After the tragic death of Kuryokhin in 1996, Igor Silin continued publishing books and albums exclusively within the framework of the Duo Zikr project, which turns 25 this year. "U": Everyone knows Kuryokhin as an avant-garde musician. What do we know about Sergei as a film composer in the film "It"? A. : "Kuryokhin had a peculiar manner of work," recalls composer Andrei Sigle, who collaborated with the Captain on the sound design of the film "It". - Sergei completely disregarded the visual series. He had certain sensations from the film, and he sketched individual musical themes that director Sergei Ovcharov then set himself. And the final theme for the film was invented directly at the studio ". Looking back, it becomes clear that Kuryokhin's music to the film "It" is one of the many "blank spots" in the film's discography of the composer. Today, for the first time in the history of Russian cinema, the Aurora Award (November 15, St. Petersburg) was established, focused on music for films, where special attention will be paid to the living classics of the genre (Doga, Artemyev, Dunaevsky) and to young composers. It will be pleasant if in one of the nominations Sergey Kuryokhin's activity as a film composer. "U": Is it possible to say that the presentation of the publication of the film "It" on November 7 is another evening of Kurekhin's memory?.

: Several years ago I published a book devoted to the life and work of Sergei "Captain" Kuryokhin - "Mad Mechanics of Russian Rock". The publication of the book was accompanied by more lectures, concerts and actions aimed at changing the cultural situation around the name of the great avant-garde and provocateur.

Creative evening, which will be held at the Pioner cinema, is accentuated by a significant and joyful event. In the bowels of Lenfilm, films with Kuryokhin's film were found for the film "Ono", previously considered lost. Within two years they were carefully restored and for the first time will be made public. Within the framework of the creative evening, his friends and relatives will share their memories of Kuryokhin, as well as ideologues of Duo Zikr - Igor Silin and Olga Tkachenko. It is assumed performance and highly artistic surprises.