October 2025

October was the first month when the project really started to take shape. I moved from vague ideas about “electronic folk” into concrete experiments at the piano, and began looking seriously into both Russian/Tatar musical traditions and EDM/club structures.

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Creative work

• Composed the first version of “Bolshoye Malenkoye Serdtse”, and tested it by singing and playing the accompaniment on piano at the same time.

• Used this live setup to feel the song physically using breath, phrasing, and harmony all at once, which helped me develop a closer approach to composition.

• Collected and organised initial melodic/rhythmic ideas for the other tracks on the EP, noting down motifs, lyric fragments and mood references.

Research & source gathering

• Started collecting samples from Russian and Tatar songs and recordings, focusing on traditional instruments

• Researched what makes Russian and Tatar music distinct: characteristic scales and modes, typical rhythmic patterns and metres, vocal techniques, especially folk and choral styles, common instrument combinations and timbres.

• Studied EDM / club structures and asked how folklore can live inside them: basic forms and builds of dance tracks, role of groove, drops and repetition, examples of electronic artists who borrow from folk traditions.

Ethnomusicological context

• Began an ethnomusicology‑style investigation into Russian and Tatar musical heritage: reading about historical and social context of folk songs, listening to archival and field recordings as someone who is re‑approaching these traditions from the UK.