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HXA (aka NEW ART ENSEMBLE) from Chelyabinsk was formed in 1987 by Lev Gutovsky, a graduate of Ural State Conservatory. His ensemble was arguably the only professional musical act in the USSR dedicated to creating music for absurdist theatre and postmodernist happening. By the end of the 1990’s, HXA shrunk to a trio of Lev Gutovsky (voice, electronics), Sergey Belov (trombone, electronics) and Olga Leonova (voices) increasingly focused on modern improvised and electro-acoustic music. Lev Gutovsky is currently the sole HXA member. He tends to call his recent researches “electronic disclosure of sound objects” or “free electronic manipulations on the precise dramatic basis”. The artist is responsible for numerous theatrical shows, sound-and-visual installations as well as busking performances which are just about anything that Gutovsky finds entertaining... HXA and Lev Gutovsky do not have any official web-page. If you want to contact the artist, feel free to send your messages through RAIG.
This is an exclusive art-object dedicated to the memory of a French poet Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) and a Russia poet and translator Yuri Stefanov (1939-2001)… In 2007, Lev Gutovsky, a sound-designer from Chelyabinsk used Stevanov’s translation of “Une Saison en Enfer” by Rimbaud as a source of inspiration to make an exciting sound-installation entitled Three Gnomes Of Sarcoma. In 2010, the installation was radically re-worked and expanded. A few illustrations were created then by ZonderZond as an attempt to build a visual bridge between the text and sound-scape. And finally, all elements were put together as an unique hand-made illustrated bilingual book “Une Saison en Enfer” supplemented with an audio-CD “Three Gnomes Of Sarcoma” that featured three sound-installations by Lev Gutovsky aka HXA. A true labor of love! A great project which took four years to get completed! "Piece Goods" line by RAIG | ZonderZond. Strictly limited to 50 art-objects (160-page book + disc: 3 tracks - 79 min.)
Free streaming or immediate digital download of the album (in your choice of MP3-320, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire) is available through Official R.A.I.G. Bandcamp.
Will Beauty Save the World? Salvation has already come… though with a price. The cultural cycle entered the era of the dominance of pop culture and entertainment, ruled by consumerism and controlled by marketers and promoters. It's The End of the Time of Composers (as We Know It)… and Lev Gutovsky acknowledges this fact of modern life in his recent full-length "citation's combinatory logic" album "American Beauty (Shot Two)". "Piece Goods" line by RAIG | ZonderZond. Strictly limited to 50 art-beauty-objects (plastic toys, thick cardboard packaging, and disc: 5 tracks - 76 min.)
Free streaming or immediate digital download of the album (in your choice of MP3-320, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire) is available through Official R.A.I.G. Bandcamp.
| Title | Media | Price |
| Progressing Towards Torpidity (1994) | CD (U-sound) | N/A |
| split w/ ZGA. Noise and Fury (2001) | CD (LongArms Records) | N/A |
| Unbearable Lightness Of Being (2002) | CD (LongArms Records) | N/A |
| Stringophelia (2005) | CD (Dom Records) | N/A |
| The Hunting of the Snark or PaedOphelia (International Geostrategic Game) (2006) | CD (Dom Records) | N/A |
| American Beauty (Shot Two) (2009) | pro-duplicated CD-R (RAIG) | DD | out-of-print | $7.00 |
| Three Gnomes of Sarcoma (Sound Installation to Arthur Rimbaud's Une Saison En Enfer) (2011) | pro-duplicated CD-R (RAIG) | DD | $44.00 | $7.00 |
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