Artemiy Artemiev is a Soviet and Russian experimental composer and producer who works in electroacoustic music. Born in Moscow on January 13, 1966, he is the son of composer Eduard Artemiev. His professional activity began in 1988.
He graduated from the music school at the Moscow Conservatory in 1985, the Maurice Thorez Institute of Foreign Languages in 1987, and a composition program in film and electronic music in Los Angeles in 1990. He became a member of the Russian Union of Cinematographers in 1996 and the Russian Association of Electroacoustic Music in 1997.
In 1997, Artemiev and director and producer Vladimir Krupnitsky founded Electroshock Records, a label for electronic, electroacoustic, experimental, and avant-garde music. Artemiev’s albums include Warning (1993), Cold (1995), Point of Intersection (1997), Mysticism of Sound (1999), and Time, Desert and Sound (2004). He also released collaborative albums with Phillip B. Klingler, Peter Frohmader, and Christopher De Laurenti.
Artemiev has composed music for documentary and feature films, including Fan (1989), Night (1990), The Werewolf Hour (1990), Poor Sasha (1997), and The Fatalists (2001). In 1991, he co-directed the short film After the Rain with A. Trofimov. In September 1998, he received a Presidential Prize for achievements in electronic and film music. A 2000 listener poll on the American radio station KALX placed his album Mysticism of Sound among its 35 best albums of 1999.
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