FermataLab

Home of all things creative
Who we are
FermataLab is a small family-based creative lab founded by Alexey&Ika Munipov. We make exhibitions, children theatre labs, educational courses and more. In short, we do immersive communications.

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Museums & art
«Playing with masterpieces: from Henry Matisse to Marina Abramovitch»
Family-oriented exhibition at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center (Moscow, Russia). The show is intended to have children as main visitors and includes over 30 works from 26 private collections and both European and Russian museums.
«My own private museum of emotions»
Children book for «Playing with masterpieces» exhibition. (Artguide Editions; 2019)
Art and emotion: redefining museum experience
Alexey Munipov for Hands up! Conference
Music & education
«Music in figurative theater»
Online course for HATS (Tromsø)

The School of Attentive Listening

The course on the art and practices of listening

«Fermata» music society
Weekly music lessons for teenagers based on improvisation and deep listening practices
«Professional listener»
Intensive listening course for HSE University Art and Design. The course combines elements of music history and theory, musicology and listening strategy analysis, and draws on a broad base of musical examples — from Indonesian gamelan to British grime, baroque music and radical 20th century experiments. Participants receive a Certificate of Continuing Education from the Higher School of Economics.
«Fermata. Talks with composers»
Book of conversations with 20 post-Soviet composers: Gubaidulina, Kancheli, Desyatnikov and others. (Novoe Izdatelstvo; 2019)
«Book of the year» Non/Fiction Award
Shortlisted for Andrei Bely Prize
«Fermata Mix»
Audiocompanion to Fermata book (Fancymusic, 2019). Music of twenty contemporary Russian-speaking composers. Includes bilingual booklet with quotes and facts. Available at Itunes, Google Play and Bandcamp.
«Fermata. Talks on music» podcast
Alexey Munipov's podcast on how pandemics and quarantine change music.
«Turn it off now!»
Workshops on contemporary academic music with renowned Russian composers
Phono Group
for V-A-C
«Searching and experimentation in academic music» listening group for V-A-C Foundation. A series of meetings and discussions with Russian composers and performers. Part of public program for «General Rehearsal» exhibition at MMOMA.
Music textbook for Yandex
Distance learning music lessons for primary and secondary schools. Improvisation, graphic scores, music therapy, body percussion and more.
«Yandex. Сulture marathon»
Ready-made scripts for music, cinema, architecture, theater classes. 5 million schoolkids involved.
«Theatre in a pocket»
Children theatre lab at Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center.
«Small form» festival
Curating music program for «Small art» exhibition. Five concerts — from medieval music to the avant-garde
Emotional map for UNICON Conference
Emotional Journey Map with custom-made stickers for UNICON, largest conference of university-based executive education departments directors (hosted by SKOLKOVO)

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«Gamelan to heaven» installation
Shadow puppet installation at Richter space featuring wayang kulit puppets and sound art
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