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Type of site | mass media |
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Available in | Russian, Belarusian |
Created by | Źmicier Biezkaravajny [1] [2] |
URL | experty |
Commercial | no |
Registration | optional |
Launched | 2008 June 13 |
Current status | frozen |
Experty.by is a web-portal dedicated to music in Belarus, [3] as well as the associated music awards of the same name [4] of Belarusian music critics. [5] [6] Moreover, the portal acts as a coorganizer of another awards, the Rock Profi awards. [7] [8]
The site was opened on June 13, 2008. [9] The founders were Belarusian music journalist Źmicier Biezkaravajny (ex-editor of Muzykalnaya Gazeta, BelGazeta), who became the project director, Źmicier Padbiarezski (ex-editor of Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty), Oleg “О’К” Klimov (ex-chief editor of Muzykalnaya Gazeta, the music magazine “НОТ-7”), and Siarhei Budkin (editor of Nasha Niva, Tuzin.fm). They got together for the systematic reporting and assessment of CDs of Belarusian artists to promote Belarusian music. [10] [11]
The basis of the project is the reviews of four regular contributors ("expert staffers"), [12] who evaluate each album. In 2013, the original quartet was strengthened by Alexandr Chernuho (Ultra-music.com) and Egor Tsyvilko (blog "Broken CD"). [13] [14] Authors write reviews, set ratings, while their average becomes a final score assessed by the mass media. On the basis of these points, full charts are presented at the end of each-half year and year. [15]
Since 2009, the editorial staff of the project was also diversified with the addition of the panel of 8 freelance experts, authoritative representatives of the Belarusian media community. [16] Since 2010, almost all reviewed albums can be listened to on the website as well. [17] In May of the same year the portal conducted its festival. [18] Starting from 2014, the best album winner was being offered support in holding a concert. [19]
For ten years, critics have evaluated more than 500 (including the classics of Lyapis Trubetskoy, N.R.M., Pesniary and some more released in 2007 and earlier) modern albums of Belarusian artists: 59 in 2008, [20] 60 in 2009, [21] 44 in 2010, [22] 63 in 2011, [23] 67 in 2012, [24] 47 in 2013, [25] 38 in 2014, [26] 45 in 2015, [27] 29 in 2016, [28] 33 in 2017. [29]
In 2018 the site was frozen on “indefinite leave,” per its project manager Źmicier Biezkaravajny. [30] At the same time, the portal selected its top-10 albums for 2008–2017 being active, and Port Mone’s «Thou» topped the ultimate chart. [31]
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Experty.by’s annual awards call the best Belarusian album of each year in several versions (tops 10 for each of them are made known too). [32]
In 2009, Tat’yana Zamirovskaya as a columnist over at naviny.by evaluated the first results of the project as such, “An attempt to create an Internet portal where every new CD release of Belarusian musicians is reviewed by a completely variegated four of the country’s best music critics, oddly enough, was a success.” [81] She as an author of BelGazeta noted that by 2012 the site’s music awards had become more significant than the “Rock Coronation Awards.” [65] In 2018, Tat’yana Zamirovskaya wrote in the magazine “Russian : Большой” regarding the freezing of the site, “The remaining text base is even more important than remaining music. After all, when we study a period in art, we primarily turn to text, to archives, to documentation. And when something cool ends, we moan in the first place.” [82]
In 2008, Alieh Chamienka, frontman of the band Palats, emphasized the importance of the appearance of this musical resource, since “we all lacked just such objective criticism signed by professional and famous people in musical circles.” [9]
In 2010, beZ bileta’s frontman Vitaly Artist evaluated the portal via Sovetskaya Belorussiya – Belarus' Segodnya like this, “It is good, by the way, that the site experty.by has appeared – there is interesting content and there are its own music awards too.” [83] In a review of all Belarusian music awards for 2013, Paviel Svierdlov, editor of “KYKY.ORG”, noted the peculiarity of presenting the site’s awards that it “takes place in a chamber setting, without a concert and other fuss.” [84]
Music critic and author of the “Encyclopedia of Belarusian Popular Music” Źmicier Padbiarezski put in a good word for the Experty.by awards among “the most objective of all Belarusian music awards”.[ citation needed ]
For the Belarusian Telegraph Agency in 2017, Renato Horvath, co-organizer of the Budapest Showcase Hub festival, positively evaluated the portal’s efforts to promote domestic artists abroad, stating that “over the past few years, thanks to the efforts of the Experty.by project, modern Belarusian music has gained a significant presence in international showcase festivals and conferences.” [85]
Illia Sviryn, chief editor of the newspaper Kultura, assessed the usefulness of the portal in 2017 as follows, “Without a doubt, this project will somehow affect the overall musical situation. New, quite exciting and completely different projects appear, and musicians rake the last denarius out the pockets to make a high-quality recording because they know that it will be evaluated – meticulously and by the Hamburg score. And the audience will learn lots of new things.” [86] Two years before, by evaluating the work of the Port Mone band, he referred to the results of “the most qualified and clear music awards in Belarus,” [87] echoed the opinion of Alexandr Chernuho, editor of Ultra-music.com, who called it the most thorough “in terms of criteria for selecting the strongest releases of the year” in 2012. [66]
In the retrospect of 2010–2019 in 2019, Lesha Gorbash from 34mag called the portal, whose experts “patiently listened to and evaluated all the albums and selected the best of them” for 10 years, the only one who was cataloguing Belarusian music. [88]
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