Titles,diplomas, rewards – all this will be his. So far, “the guy who sings the anthem of Zhytomyr”, works as a producer on the top Ukrainian channels and seriously contemplates the career of a professional musician. About working in projects, “Little Prince” and childhood in “turning-points” moments Oleg Grabar told Zhytomyr.Travel
“I’m 26, soon 27, many rock musicians are already ending in this age, and I’m just about to start. I will try to define my age through the prism of the “Little Prince”. I really liked this fairy tale, she was very grown up and was not aimed at children at all. As for me, its main message in the words: “Strange people are these adults.” The most important thing is not to kill a child inside. As far as I remember, I dreamed of music, and I try to save this child. Therefore, I want to start a musician career. I do not want to spend my life on what I do not like. It is meaningless”
“I have a plus (at least I think it’s a plus). All my musicians have higher education – Glier (edited by Reinhold Glier Kyiv Institute of Music), and I have a regular musical school № 1 named after them. Lyatoshynsky in Zhytomyr. That is, in essence, I have no musical education. And that’s great because I do not have borders and boundaries. When you propose for a rehearsal: “Let’s try this,” – and the musicians respond: “Well, no, you can not.” They explain why you can not – violate the “musical rules”. And for me, these rules are not in most cases, and this allows you to experiment”
“Nothing prevents a person, and education is never too late. I am a supporter of all events in life happening on time. If everything were different, then there would be another person who would now be parry with other problems. All the events that took place formed me and imagine myself without what happened to me, it’s hard for me ”
“I am a social educator, a psychologist. Although in childhood it was a dream to go to the theater. Before the “Glider”, the teachers of the music school wanted to send after the 9th grade, and I decided to “sway” in grades 10-11 and then go to the theater. I was then soprano, thin, I was drinking years to 15. But the breaking of the voice, then some more issues like financial, and still Kiev, which is far – parents will survive. So remained in Zhytomyr”
“Education is always needed, regardless of whether you like a specialty or not. Education is the formation of contacts, sociability, this is the segment of the future adult life: you have to solve your own problems yourself, take a session, something else. And this forms the personality. This is an important period. The required diploma or not is a separate issue, but it is the stay and study at the university that are very important. In any case, you get cultural luggage, and without it you can not move further ”
“About the university I have pleasant memories. First of all it’s CFI, trips. I recently watched an interview with Shemyakin, a Russian artist, a sculptor who teaches at the universities of France. He said that students now have access to any information, but he has not had that. He recalled how he copied some prohibited books, sought information and people were educated. Now there is a lot of information on the Internet, but there is as much slag, too much. It affects both life and work – it is difficult to develop: a huge stream of information, trends that are changing rapidly. Even surprising something non-standard – a bit “not that”
“I often try to establish a chronology of what was happening, I’m not looking for a formula to apply it the same way. He started to be interested in contemporary art, Dadaism, which explains the reason for the war logic. It’s logical to look for the meaning of what’s happening – whether it’s a resource, a financial benefit, etc. Because of this, there is a war. Dadaists began to create just terrible things, but in their alogism there is so much sense, as there are in some of Dostoevsky’s works, sorry for comparison. By the way, it was difficult for me to go. (Laughs). And how does a child read a work in which a complex sentence is half page? You lose the same content. I read very slowly, sometimes forcing myself. But reading is important!”
“I am a gambler because I can not lose (Laughs). For me, the excitement is to win. In any case! For me it is an important result, some kind of sensibility … I do not know, but maybe I just lose my fear: I will not play in the game, unless I’m sure I can win. Though once, he played casino all the same. Truly: a table, a croupier … Then he just started to work on “1 + 1”, and even a plus went out – as much as 100 hryvnia. Oh, for me then give the tea to the croupier … I felt like a “white man” (Laughs). But this is a kind of childhood: adults play, and you are a part of that adult community, because children can not gamble”
“It would not sound like a banal, but to each one. In this world everything is subjective, and it is difficult to deduce dogma. Of course, I felt the pressure of stereotypes. Most of my complexes – from childhood. I was called a “professor”, because he started to read early, he knew the alphabet, some verses told me, grabbed on the fly. My parents were called professors. And then the transitional age, and some sort of gravity of what seems to have not met expectations. From such particles, complexes were formed. I am a complicated person, but I struggle with this”(Smiles)
“I knew that I would do my job. So it happened: at the end of the third year got acquainted with the guys on television and with a little shoulder and a thousand hryvnias in his pocket went to Kyiv”
“My mother and I worked out the scheme. She wondered if I had eaten, and closed a lot of questions for myself: if I had eaten, then there was a job; there is a job – there is money; there is money – I can rent a house. At first, I was terribly angry. I thought: “Is there anything more important? I have some fundamental thoughts, and I’m asked if I’ve been eating! ” But in fact this is a very cool question that rejects many other senseless questions”
“Should I listen to my parents? Listen … In any case, it seems to me, parents will never advise a bad one. My father and I had a very good policy. The point is that he never forbade me. We talked with him and came up with a conclusion. There was no such thing – “this can not be done”. He expressed his point of view in the form of “I would not do this because of that and that”. If I could bring a counter argument, eventually he allowed me to make that mistake. And when I was wrong, he was close and supported. I could learn from my mistakes, I realized that my father was right, and he listened to his words the next time. We gradually built relationships that worked very well ”
“Some people of my generation still lost the old understanding of” car, apartment, gain “- something that can be felicitated at meetings of graduates. Yes, it’s important, no doubt! For me, the place where I come and I can relax, is also an important place to feel like “at home”, like any other person. But…”
“There are not enough TVs in Kyiv. Kyivans are more relaxed in terms of work, earnings. We have a great motivation: you have to make money to pay for an apartment: stop – everything will not be where to live. This is a mini-motivation. That is why there is a mini diaspora, and Zhytomyrans are pulling each other out, at least trying. Well, of course, not with such force as we would like, but try”
“Television for me was also a mysterious world. (Laughs). This brand is like something you hear. Is it hard work? I do not know, the same work is much heavier. Regarding status … I do not consider myself to be either status or successful myself, I still have a lot to do”
“I participated in many different projects – overseas business trips and many others, and now I cooperate with Dmytro Komarov. In general, the work of the producer is a kind of “fluid”, no specifics. That is, it is the person who does everything from project planning to control over the implementation, the final point, installation and broadcast. It is a link between the editorial team and the technical, the operator and the illuminators, all those who are associated with the technology. With Dmitry Komarov I first became a producer, before that I was a linear producer. Actually, with the acquired skills you can become successful in any sphere that does not even have any relation to creativity. A television producer may hold a leading position in any other area, because it is planning, monitoring. But the person in the first place has to burn it”
“It’s been so since my childhood: I have never said that I can not do anything. Once, my sister asked me in the summer cottage: “You know how to swim?” And I replied that I could, although it was a lie. I swam, that is when I learned it”
“There is a landmark story. I was recorded in a childhood at a gymnastics, and then my mother at work gave a ticket to a sanatorium in Odessa. We went It was the end of the summer, and in September I had to go to gymnastics. And there, in Odessa, I break my hand: I fall somehow so weird, with a half-meter high, but everything is a turning point. And then there was a hit song “The wind from the sea muzzled”, which I always sang. We had another mother with a child, a teacher from a musical school, we, of course, married. And she told her mother: “Take him to a music school”. Mom then replied: “No, we already wrote him on the gymnastics.” And then my broken arm, and of course, I did not hit any gymnastics, but went to a musical school. This was a breakthrough”
“I always rush to music, I’m tired of waiting terribly, and it seems as if something is repulsive, as if it is not the time:” Wait a minute, dude, not now. ” As if I have to wait for something, catch some opinion. And I believe in the information field: everything is not without reason. That was the story when my close friend proposed me to make a project. Well, I thought it was, chatter, it would burn out. And she began to shout me: “Come on, come on.” And I just had a period when I wanted to throw myself as much as possible at work. And I started to work: for a day I wrote a project under the working title “Work – not work”, I began to do everything myself, which, by the way, is also very wrong. I was a scriptwriter and a director. He then got a good lesson, because everyone has to deal with his business, but not about that. We went to Georgia, began to shoot “pilot”. The script was written under the profession, inherent in this country: the two leaders had to do the work, and who would earn more money – walking, who is less – performs more dirty work. We take off, I go to the producer in another project, and the installation is delayed. And when I had already proposed to the general producer this pilot variant, he looked over and said: “Oleg, it’s very cool, but the same project will be released on ICTV and on the” New Channel “almost simultaneously. These are the “Zarobitchany” and “The Features of National Work” projects, and in the past, there was no such project plan! That is, if I had such an opinion, it probably means someone could catch it. So when it comes to some idea, you must immediately implement it as quickly as possible. Do not drag right now”
“The topic of family and family relationships is very important. She is in our genetic code stitched. From this you can not get anywhere. Loneliness is such a thing that suppresses and binds hands on the seams”
“I do not like empty conversations: if there is nothing to talk about, it’s better to keep silent. I’m for the sake of conscious things, and especially in my work. There is a legend about Picasso’s bright, as if he wrote a note before his death. It was something like: “All my fans are idiots.” It seems that he deliberately wrote stupid things in which others saw something brilliant. Pirosmani has a completely different story: everything he did – unconsciously. He did not know anything about the emergence of a current called “primitivism,” but simply did not know how to draw a different way. And so he was first recognized in France, and in Georgia only a year later, when his surname was already in the trend. I think the reason is that he wrote unconsciously. This, you know, in the theater somewhere on top of the sling hangs a rag. Someone asks, “May we take it down?” And they answer: “No, let the viewer think that it symbolizes something.” From the audience they sit and think: “Once there is a cloth there, it means something. We understand these things”
“My favorite project? This is all we managed to do, our group is Niu Ton. To us, Dima Crab drew a cover for the disk: a man sits, and instead of his head, he has an apple. This meant that thoughts do not fall from the top to the head, but they are born in the head”
“There is always one who helps you – one in the field is not a warrior. Only help should be unobtrusive. The ability to help, as for me, is a gift, a talent: you can either do it or not. There are people who try to help everyone, and it gets even worse. Another thing is, when a person understands what to say, maybe even something like: “Hey, man! What are you relaxing? Anu, go ahead! ” Otherwise, you need to be gentle, advice somehow, and maybe even just smile. Maybe the person just waited for that smile! In fact, it’s cool to smile on the passersby. Practiced a few times – the mood itself appears. Maybe a man was very bad, and you smiled so much – and it’s all so bad! It’s cool when your smile adorns someone’s life. We are looking for some basic things, and everything starts with little things – with a smile, with a good word!”
Translated by Aliona Shykhevych
