A contemporary Kazakhstani musician, DJ, composer, and producer. Key methods in Timoshenko’s practice cover minimalism, audio archaeology, sound design, and field research. Key ideas in his work are collective and acoustic memory, migratory identity, critique of consumerism, and the post-digital environment.

Timoshenko studied at P. Tchaikovsky Almaty Music College (1988–1992). Since then, he has participated in musical projects such as “Antiparty Gang,” “Akkord I On,” “KMTR,” “Help Me Jones,” “Les Enfants de Paris,” and “Sample Brothers” (“Pop’s Machine,” in collaboration with Timur Isaliyev). In 2011, he received the Gaude Polonia scholarship and studied music under M. Strzelec at the Kraków Academy of Music.

Since 2000, Timoshenko has worked with the Soros Center for Contemporary Art – Almaty, creating sound installations and sound design for video projects. Within the Akkord I On and KMTR projects, he explores collective memory and urban acoustics, building compositions from field recordings and samples of Almaty streets (“Almatinka,” 2007). As part of “Help Me Jones,” he critiques mass production and the post-Soviet society’s shift toward consumerism (“The Darkness Lights,” 2012; “Made in China,” 2013). He also contributed to acoustic landscapes for audiovisual performances such as Albena Baeva’s media-sensory installation “The Effects of the Gamma Rays on Moon Marigolds” (Sofia, 2015).

Since 2004, he has been an active member of “Antiparty Gang” – a music collective that played a key role in the development of VJing and experimental music, organizing the international festival of club contemporary music “SoundVision” (together with the Soros Center for Contemporary Art – Almaty and the British Council, 2005), “Antiparty” evenings (2004), “Poldnik” (2006), and the first international festival of experimental media art “REPLICA” (Almaty, 2006–2007).

Additionally, Timoshenko participated in projects in Kazakhstan and abroad: the presentation of the CD catalogue “Communications: Experiments in Interaction” (House of Cinema, Almaty, 2001), the “Cult-Platform July 6” festival (Astana, 2006), “Electroacoustic Music Studio” (SME, Krakow Academy of Music, 2011), “EXIT” (Serbia, 2012), “DA Fest” (National Academy of Arts, Sofia, 2015), the 7th International Festival of Design and Visual Culture “ONE DESIGN WEEK” (Plovdiv, 2015), and “Neon Paradise” (Almaty, 2020).

Information about Timoshenko is stored in the collection of the Documentation project – the archive of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art – Almaty (SCCA).

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Photograph provided by Konstantin Timoshenko