Biography

Tatiana Gerasimenok (born May 5, 1992) is a Belarusian-Polish avant-garde composer, cognitive analyst specializing in shadow analysis, and conceptual thinker based in Germany. She is the founder of Qualitative Accelerationism (q/acc) and the driving force behind XENOGLAMOUR — a movement operating at the absolute threshold of cognitive science, multi-sensory engineering, and post-human transit protocols.

Gerasimenok treats extreme sonic and spatial geometry not as aesthetic decoration, but as a high-precision neuro-interface designed to stress-test, dismantle, and recalibrate the human wetware under the pressure of exponential AI acceleration. Her environments force systemic overload to activate latent cognitive mutations, engineering the exact evolutionary conditions necessary for advanced intelligence to survive the technological shock of the Singularity.



 The foundation of her career was established via rigorous training in Musicology at the Mogilev Rimsky-Korsakov Music College, followed by a classical Specialist Degree in Composition at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory (under Prof. Yuri Kasparov), and a Postgraduate Degree in Psychological Counseling, focusing on Cognitive Processes and High-Risk Behavioral Analysis (1,480+ Academic Hours). Her artistic development was further shaped by intensive study with leading masters of complex sonic architecture, including Brian Ferneyhough, Pierluigi Billone, Beat Furrer, Alvin Lucier, Tristan Murail, Heinz Holliger, Peter Ablinger, Mark Andre, and Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf.



Her creative and analytical work has achieved widespread international recognition, demonstrating an extensive geographic reach across major cultural and institutional networks. Gerasimenok’s compositions have been featured at prominent global nodes, including the MATA Festival (New York) and the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Darmstadt), with her non-linear scores executed by leading sonic agents such as the JACK Quartet, Ensemble Multilatérale, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Ine Vanoeveren, Dejana Sekulić, Michiko Saiki, and the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonia.





In tandem with her performances, she has been awarded prestigious research residencies and fellowships across Europe and the USA, developing specialized projects at Académie Voix Nouvelles (France), Akademie Schloss Solitude, Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Künstlerhaus Lukas, Künstlerstadt Kalbe, Künstlerhaus Salzwedel (all Germany), and the EBMF International Summer Academy for Young Composers (New York).

 Her structural methodology is backed by distinguished professional accolades, including First Prize at the Seventh International Composers' Competition of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the 18th A. Petrov Open Composers Competition (Symphonic Music, St. Petersburg), the I International Composition Competition “New Music Generation”, and the “Ad Libitum” Composition Competition (Germany).



Tatiana Gerasimenok has taught composition and music theory at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

Building on a rigorous academic foundation, Gerasimenok’s ongoing research maps the evolutionary transition toward advanced cognitive paradigms and human-silicon symbiosis. In parallel with her creative work, she operates as a Principal Strategic Advisor and Cognitive Analyst, collaborating exclusively with sovereign individuals, innovators, and high-performance networks to execute Shadow Analysis, performative stress-tests, and strategic briefings designed designed to override fragile biological processing and engineer higher-order decision-making infrastructures.





Curriculum Vitae
Composer | Cognitive Analyst | Conceptual Thinker

Education
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Psychological Counseling    
  • Focus: Cognitive Processes and High-Risk Behavioral Analysis (1,480+ Academic Hours)
  • Specialist Degree in Composition
  • Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Russia | 2014–2019
  • Mentor: Prof. Yuri Kasparov
  • Diploma in Musicology
  • Mogilev Rimsky-Korsakov Music College, Belarus | 2008–2012

Private Study, Masterclasses & Workshops
  • Brian Ferneyhough, Pierluigi Billone, Beat Furrer, Alvin Lucier, Tristan Murail, Mark Andre, Peter Ablinger, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Heinz Holliger, and others

Courses & Academies
  • Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, Germany
  • EBMF International Summer Academy for Young Composers, New York, USA
  • Fifth & Sixth International Young Composers Academy, Tchaikovsky City, Russia
  • First International Master-Courses for Young Composers, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Russian Seminar on Contemporary Performing Techniques, Moscow, Russia

Residencies & Fellowships
  • Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany
  • Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Académie Voix Nouvelles, Royaumont Abbey, France
  • Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany
  • Künstlerhaus Lukas, Germany
  • Künstlerstadt Kalbe, Germany
  • Kunsthof Dahrenstedt, Germany
  • Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt and Kloster Bergesche Stiftung, Germany
  • Künstlerhaus Salzwedel, Germany
  • Pyrenees-Mediterranean Creation Residence, Spain

Festivals & Events
  • Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, Germany
  • MATA Festival — “Future Perfect” Night, New York, USA
  • Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, Virginia Tech, USA
  • New Music Festival, Netzwerk Neue Musik Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  • KlangART Vision Festival, Magdeburg, Germany
  • DARK WEB Music-Theatre, ZiMMT, Leipzig, Germany
  • Wave-Gotik-Treffen Festival, Leipzig, Germany
  • Chapman University, California, USA
  • 18th A. Petrov Open Composers Competition (Symphonic Music), St. Petersburg Philharmonia, Russia
  • Exhibition of graphic scores Sound Graphics, National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Radio broadcast about Tatiana Gerasimenok, Pulsar CISM Radio, Montreal, Canada
  • Radio broadcast about Tatiana Gerasimenok, No Pigeonholes Radio, California, USA

Competitions & Awards
  • First Prize at the Seventh International Composers' Competition, Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory, Russia
  • Winner of the International Composition Competition Samal, Kazakhstan
  • Winner of the I International Composition Competition New Music Generation 2019, Kazakhstan
  • Winner of the Ad Libitum Composition Competition — commissioned to create a piece for brass sextet, Germany
  • Winner of the JACK Studio Call — commissioned to create a piece for JACK Quartet, New York, USA
  • Winner of the Morphosis Ensemble Call — commissioned to create a piece for Morphosis Ensemble, Barcelona, Spain
  • Winner of the No Medici project at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik — commissioned to create a piece for Ine Vanoeveren, Belgium
  • Winner of the Temporality of the Impossible Composition Competition — commissioned to create a piece for Dejana Sekulic, Belgium/UK
  • Winner of the 18th A. Petrov Open Composers Competition (Symphonic Music), Russia — selected composer to work with the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, conducted by Fedor Lednev
  • Winner of the New Music, New Paths project — commissioned to create a piece for Roberto Alonso Trillo, Spain
  • Winner of the DARK WEB project — commissioned to create a piece for Michiko Saiki and Frauke Aulbert, Leipzig, Germany

Performers
  • JACK Quartet, USA
  • Ensemble Multilatérale, France
  • Morphosis Ensemble, Spain
  • Studio for New Music, Russia
  • Ine Vanoeveren, Belgium
  • Dejana Sekulić, Serbia
  • Roberto Alonso Trillo, Spain
  • Michiko Saiki, Japan
  • Frauke Aulbert, Germany
  • Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, conducted by Fedor Lednev, Russia
  • Ensemble BRuCH, Germany
  • And others

Teaching, Masterclasses & Workshops
Composition and Music Theory (Teaching)
  • Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, Russia
  • Mogilev Rimsky-Korsakov Music College, Mogilev, Belarus

Invited Artist and Educator (Lectures, Masterclasses, Workshops)
  • Künstlerhaus Lukas, Germany
  • Künstlerstadt Kalbe, Germany
  • Kunsthof Dahrenstedt, Germany
  • KlangART Vision Festival, Magdeburg, Germany
  • Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany
  • Künstlerhaus Salzwedel, Germany
  • La Unió Social de Flix, Spain
  • Musikschule Offenburg, Germany
  • Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany
  • Meeting of the Union of Composers of Russia, Moscow, Russia
  • Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, Germany
  • First Russian Symposium of Young Composers, Moscow, Russia
  • Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
  • Académie Voix Nouvelles, Royaumont Abbey, France
  • Fifth and Sixth International Young Composers Academy, Tchaikovsky City, Russia
  • And others

Consultancy & Cognitive Architecture
  • Principal Strategic Advisor to Public Figures
  • Focus: Perception Design, Media Performance Orchestration, and Systemic Presence
  • Strategic Consultant for Innovators & Visionary Networks
  • Focus: Shadow Analysis, Cognitive Fortitude, and Logic Optimization under Acceleration




    Yuri Kasparov,
    Russian composer and professor at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, 
    Tatiana’s composition teacher, 

    speaks about Tatiana:

    “During her years of study at the conservatory, she composed a wide range of works. Most of them are written in a complex, deeply individual modern musical language and bear the imprint of an outstanding intellect. In addition to her musical expertise, she has gained substantial knowledge in the sciences, philosophy, linguistics, literature, and other arts. In my view, Tatiana Gerasimenok is one of the most profound, interesting, and promising young composers, capable of bringing a fresh voice to the art of composition.”


    “I shall start the conversation about Tatiana Gerasimenok with the quote of doctor Breed from 'Cat's Cradle'. On the question whether he was the Head of laboratory where famous scientist Felix Hoenikker worked, Asa Breed answered: 'If I actually supervised Felix, I'm ready now to take charge of volcanoes, the ties, and the motions of birds and lemmings. The man was a force of nature no mortal could possibly control.' Exactly the same creation of nature is Tatiana! The grade of brightness and originality of Tatiana's creative ideas doesn't concede the brightness and originality of her appearance and behaviour.

    If we talk about the music in mathematical terms, the Euclid defined parallel lines as never intersecting. Lobachevsky extended the boundaries of Euclidean geometry, defining parallel lines as those that intersect at infinity. Tatiana, excluding non-Euclidean geometry to have exhausted itself, accepts the postulate that parallel lines intersect infinite number of times in the infinite number of infinities!

    Tatiana belongs to the cohort, preferring continuous sounding space and far from academic voices, and I see a deep symbolism that her latest tools scores corresponds exactly to that with which people built houses and other architectural structures. Intellectual work is not just reflected in each of her score, but finds the most unexpected and unusual forms of expression!”




    May 27, 2021 — Moscow Philharmonic

    Yuri Kasparov:

    “Tatiana Gerasimenok is my student. She graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory two years ago. Tatiana comes from the Belarusian city of Mogilev, where she graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov Music College. After that, she moved to Moscow and entered the Moscow Conservatory.

    She now lives in Berlin and holds scholarships from various academies and residencies dedicated to contemporary academic art. These scholarships allowed her to come to Germany, live on full support, and focus entirely on composing. Tatiana has been a scholarship holder at institutions such as the Royaumont Abbey in France and the EBMF International Summer Academy in New York, among others.

    Tatiana does not call herself a composer but a multidisciplinary artist. When she was graduating from the Moscow Conservatory, it was truly something remarkable. There are no “alive” sounds in her music.

    One day she came to me and said:

    “Can I give a concert near the conservatory cafeteria?”
    “Why there?” I asked.
    “There’s the floor I need. If you slide a chair across it, it makes exactly the sound I’m looking for. I’ve explored every floor in the conservatory — nowhere else has that sound.”

    Indeed, Tatiana has an extraordinarily sharp and refined timbral ear. She finds a particular timbre and develops it, creating a unique atmosphere. The effect is absolutely astonishing, and every concert of hers that I have attended has been a success.”



    Knife.media on Tatiana Gerasimenok:
    Tatiana Gerasimenok, described by the media as a “pop-star-looking contemporary classical composer,” combines primal intensity in her music with uncompromising directness in her texts — qualities that remain rare in the contemporary academic milieu. Her distinctive presence further separates her from the standard visual and cultural expectations of classical composers. According to senior colleagues, she disrupts several conventions at once, establishing herself as one of the most intriguing and provocative figures of her generation.
    Roots of Noise
    ACADEMIC FLESH

    Q: Who was your childhood inspiration for writing music and poetry?
     Tatiana Gerasimenok:
    Arnold Schoenberg — both directly and indirectly.
    For music, "A Survivor from Warsaw" and "Pierrot lunaire";
    for poetry, Albert Giraud’s "Pierrot lunaire" and Charles Baudelaire. 

    Q: In what kind of atmosphere did you grow up, and what drove you to the avant-garde?
    Tatiana Gerasimenok: I grew up in an atmosphere of total adoration and absolute indulgence; I was idolized by both my family and my teachers. Since childhood, my environment has been shaped by brilliant, exceptional, and deeply analytical minds. However, as I began to explore the world beyond my personal circle, I realized that the vast majority of people think in rigid stereotypes.

    My avant-garde is a vehicle to dispel the boredom born of this pervasive mediocrity. It is a mechanism for transforming a world mired in routine, and an engine of evolution that triggers an intensive intellectual upgrade of the human mind.

    Q: Who would you be if you weren't a composer?
         Tatiana Gerasimenok: A forensic pathologist.

    Q: Are your relatives musicians too?
    Tatiana Gerasimenok: My relatives come from the Belarusian-Polish intelligentsia — doctors, scientists, educators in the exact sciences, and businesspeople with a passion for the fine arts.

    Here's an example of my dad’s creativity when he was 18:












    © TATIANA GERASIMENOK