Ilya Nikkolai

Ilya Nikkolai
Born	25 September 1939 Kiev, Ukraine
Nationality	Australian
Education	Early Auto-CAD developer, largely self taught
Known for	Visual music
Movement	Unaffiliated

Ilya Nikkolai (born 25 September 1939 in Kiev, Ukraine) is an Australian visual music artist and architectural designer currently residing in Perth, Western Australia. Ilya Nikkolai calls his visual music Liquid Music to distinguish it from that of other practitioners. Liquid Music has been broadcast in Australia (Channel 31 (Australia), Melbourne and Perth and CTV Perth) and America (Harmony Channel) and on Floating Worlds [1], a channel featured on Joost.

George Borzyskowski, pioneering and award winning experimental computer filmmaker and Head of the School of Design at Curtin University, Western Australia, wrote of Ilya’s work:

“His energy and dedication, together with his unique and consistent investigative methodology, applied to the exploration of acoustic and visual phenomena within the context of contemporary time based audio visual media technologies, has resulted in a remarkable and highly significant body of creative production.

In the Sunday Times, Perth, an article described Ilya's artistic practice thus:

"Working with music and powerful multi-media computers, Nikkolai's creation puts visual sequences to music in much the same way as Walt Disney created Fantasia, although many of the images are abstract."

He was born into an artistic family since his father was the renowned Ukrainian painter Vladimir Kostetsky[2] and his mother, Valentina Kutjunsky, was a film student (under Dovzhenko), painter and an engineer. His parents' circle of acquaintance included Nikita Khrushchev, director Sergei Eisenstein, Alexander Dovzhenko and the violinist David Oistrakh. He showed an early aptitude for science and music and in 1948 was accepted into the Vienna Boys' Choir on the recommendation of composer Franz Lehár after his family, minus his father, fled to Austria during the Second World War.

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