STAS KOROLIOV

In 2023 Stas Koroliov performed Digital Fugitive, a large-scale interactive concert-game in Kyiv, transforming the concert into a branching performance. The audience voted with their smartphones during the show, influencing the sequence of events and choosing between different narrative and musical paths. The setlist formed a multi-branching structure with several possible endings, making each performance potentially different.

The concert became the conceptual basis for Round 2: Digital Fugitive, Stas Koroliov’s second full-length album, released in 2024, which developed the project’s themes and musical language into a large-scale jazz-rock work.

In 2024, Stas Koroliov performed his second album, Round 2: Digital Fugitive, live in its entirety and in the original sequence — a large-scale jazz-rock and art-rock work performed as closely as possible to the original arrangement, with every part played live without a metronome or playback. The performance featured 11 musicians, including backing vocalists, a brass section, grand piano and five synthesizers. The concert was filmed and released in full as a live film, alongside the live album R2:ЦУ live at Brave! Factory.