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Gurgang Tree

Posted on June 23rd, 2011 by jsurba.
Categories: Ancient Kuzhebar, foto, Julia Surba, Pyrography Art.

new art object made by Julia Surba
Pyrography on wood
high: 64cm

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Julia Surba & Kuzhebar Design in ethnological museum, Berlin, 2010

Posted on January 1st, 2011 by jsurba.
Categories: exhibitions, foto, Julia Surba, Kuzhebar Design.

big thanks to all visitors, who came to enjoy the exhibition

and to buy some stuff from us between 20.th of November  and 12.th of December.

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Vladswar Nadishana & Julia Surba, russian tour 2010

Posted on November 30th, 2010 by jsurba.
Categories: exhibitions, festivals, foto, Julia Surba, Kuzhebar Design, music instruments, Nadishana, Pyrography Art.

with new programm "Shuol Khymat”: concert, exhibition and performance. The tour had its start in Moscow and the finish was in St.Petersburg. In between were Izhevsk, Kazan, Ufa and 9 other cities of Ural region.

Big thank to our friends, organizers and all enthusiastic people who love our art and had supported us during the tour!

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Custom frame drum

Posted on October 2nd, 2010 by jsurba.
Categories: drums, foto, Julia Surba, music instruments, pyrography.

new custom frame drum is ready

tuneable frame drum – David&Roman Drums
pyrography – Julia Surba

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Three Magic Windows

Posted on February 27th, 2010 by jsurba.
Categories: foto, Julia Surba, Kuzhebar, Pyrography Art.

Old Kuzhebar legends tell about courageous travellers, who took risks to travel through different reality tunnels, so they could see other worlds which were different from one we usually know. Sometimes these travellers brought some objects from the visited worlds or they tried to depict them. The images were used by them to get into the world they liked again.

Here are Three Magic Windows into three different worlds “reconstructed” by Julia Surba.

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Kuzhebar Design last news

Posted on December 21st, 2009 by jsurba.
Categories: drums, foto, Julia Surba, Kuzhebar Design, music instruments, pyrography.

Design for different futujara-sets

silver symbols on black  background (opaque)

bronze symbols on brown  background (glossy)

golden symbols on black background (glossy)

custom design (shipibo style) on black background (glossy)
for Esteban Kutzwor

special design for overtone flute set for Andreas Vollenweider
 

the test of the new overtone flute set by Andreas

new frame drums with pyrography are coming  out.
Here is the first finished frame

Drums by David&Roman Drums

Pyrography by Julia Surba

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Worlds of Ancient Kuzhebar

Posted on October 4th, 2009 by jsurba.
Categories: Ancient Kuzhebar, foto, Julia Surba, Pyrography Art.

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A new video is out now, where the world of Ancient Kuzhebar is presented with pyrography art of Julia Surba in a beautiful accompanying of music of Vladiswar Nadishana. Please Enjoy:

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Back from international ethnic music festival “KRUTUSHKA 2009” (Tatarstan)

Posted on September 26th, 2009 by jsurba.
Categories: exhibitions, festivals, foto, Julia Surba, Nadishana.

Actually it was a birthday of the festival and we were happy to be there, because it was just great! Very open and friendly atmosphere,

interesting program:

place close to nature

and joyful, creative collaborations with  friends. We took part at several projects there. Here are some of them:

Our exhibition stand with music instruments and stuff from Kuzhebar Design

henna body art workshop

solo concert of Nadishana:

participation at the folklore theater show “Nu-Nu” (according to an african tale) by out friends theater “Utshonyi Medved”, Moscow

first rehearsal

and then the magic show itself
      

our performance:

and a new video recording of the ethno-fusion group Khool Zhingel

By the way Khool Zhingel (Alexander Batrakov & Dina Bashkirova) were the orginizers of the festival, big thank to them for this great event and all the best for the next Krutushka!

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Big size and original size art-prints on canvas with pyrography-art of Julia Surba (Ancient Kuzhebar

Posted on September 5th, 2009 by jsurba.
Categories: Ancient Kuzhebar, design, foto, Julia Surba, Pyrography Art.

1. "Urhat"  44,5x66cm (49,- Euro)

                           
One of the three mystical birds of Ancient Kuzhebar. As the ancient kuzhebarian tales say Urhat has four eyes and one of those is a human one. With it the bird can see the world in the way human beeings do. Three other eyes of Urhat are looking into three different worlds: the spirit world, the world of living beeings and the "horhu"-world, the world of different living beeings. Ancient Kuzhebarina tales say that Urhat tought people how to create magic sounds by using special devices, that is why it is always shown playing a flute, a jew..s harp or a ghost catcher.

2. "Gloomy Bird", 59x84cm (64,- Euro)

One of the three mystical birds of Ancient Kuzhebar.Kuzhebarian tales say about three mystical birds, who are providers of different power-sorces. For mortals, however, the birds were dangerous and indifferent at the same time.One of them symbolizes darkness, another light and the third one wisdom.
Kuzhebarian people believed that each of these birds come to each person one time a life and everybody has to choose with which of them to be connected. People give their emotions, intentions and thoughts like food to the birds and birds provide them a power they have. One gives the power to complain or to be angry, another the power to be joyful and to laugh, and the third one gives access to wisdom.

3. "Genealogy of Ancient Kuzhebar", 32x200cm (95,- Euro)

This object depicts the history of genesis and development of genetic lines of Ancient Kuzhebar. Like all other ancient kuzhebarian pyro-writings it is to read from the centre into both directions: up and down.

The central figure is the arch-father and creator of Ancient Kuzhebar – Yagdyn Staroy. According to ancient kuzhebarian tales he has four faces looking to the four winds. Each face was blown by the special wind, his “caboo”* were fluttering in these winds. (* “Caboo” are special unaccountable outgrowths on Yagdynґ faces.)
Yagdyns being exists in a turquoise-blue ambience similar to water. His usual attribute is a big crystal-clear fancifully formed seashell, Yagyn lets it sound with the help of his caboo.

Yagdyn is always accompanied by “Tupata” – mystic creatures, who help by realization of his intention (on the left and on the right side of Yagdyn). Tupatas are everpresent, they are usually shown with two heads looking opposite.
According to kuzhebarian tales they possess the unique capability to transform themselves and their ambience. Ancient KuzhebarÒ‘ aborigines appreciated these capabilities of Tupata. Ancient kuzhebariean hallowed larvae and pupas like heralds of Tupata, because they could change their biological form during their life.

4. "World Picture" 53x83cm (58,- Euro)

This is a picture of the world with higher, middle an underworld on it.
5. "Karma Knot" 53×64,5cm (45,-Euro)

                   
This object depicts a creation process of a music CD of Nadishana "Russian-Tuvinian Karama Knot".

6. Mandala"World Structure" 40,5×40,5cm (19,-Euro)

The solar symbol in the centre depicts the arch-father of Ancient Kuzhebar – Yagdyn. The inner circle build Dethless Creatures, who bring into the world different kinds of beings, which symbols you can see on the external circle.  On the frontal world plane  it is easily  to recognise axles, which present the vision of an always growing and renewing world.

7. "Father of the Sky" 21×81,5cm (39,- Euro)

                                            
This object depicts a kuzhebarian tale about Father of the Sky and his daughter.In the center you can see Father of Sky by holding the sky with stars. The pattern on the bottom of the object depicts Father of Sky teaching his daughter to polish stars. He is standing on the half moon with his twisted magic hairs, which fall down like rain.

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Festival report. Folkest 2009, Spilimbergo (Italy)

Posted on August 1st, 2009 by jsurba.
Categories: exhibitions, festivals, foto, music instruments.

Very nice festival with old tradition, which is focused mostly on folk music from Italy with participation of folk and ethno-fusion music bands from over the world.

The festival goes a whole month long and travels trhough different cities of Italy. The finish concerts of the festival takes place in Spilimbergo, an old small  sunny town (not far from Venice) with friendly and open people around.

The life in Spilimbergo is really very relaxed. The town is dead between 12:00 and 17:00,  the hottest time of a day:)

But in the evening all festival areas were full. There were 3 stages with rich program during the festival and near each about 500-800 listeners. Also by the concert of Nadishana, who finished the festival program.

The concert was really successful and people react very enthusiastic during it.

We also presented our music instruments and art object during the festival.

It is strange but presenting of music instruments is not typical for Folkest. We had only one neighbour stand with classical harps from Italy.

There were many people who saw such kind of instrument as a jew harp for the first time. But some already knew this instrument because in Sicily exists a similar one called “scacciapensieri” (what means in Italian: “it drives thoughts away”) I saw how people liked our futujara and were very thankful for its presentation. Kuaamu also found theirs fans in Italy.

We enjoyed our stay in Spilimbergo, a city with a special south flavor. And we are really thankful to Andrea, Alessandro, Odette and other festival stuff for help and support during the festival.

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