Bartenev has created costumes for theater plays: The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck in New York, Elizaveta Bam by Daniil Kharms in Moscow, Cinderella by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in Hamburg.
The 2004 Альбом реального искусства (The Album of Reality Art), using Russian oberiu poetry (Oleynikov, Kharms, Tchukovsky and others) was released on NOM's own Yazbetz Records.
Major compositions include the oratoria or mini-operas Music Hall on poems by Paul van Ostaijen for Prima la Musica, The Soluble Fish and Charms on poems by Daniil Kharms, both for Walpurgis.
In 2001 Ted Milton staged a homage to the Russian author of the absurd Daniil Kharms: "In Kharm's Way", a mixture of music, puppeteering and spoken word, with the electronic musician Sam Britton.
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As a professional philologist, Gerasimova published scholarly articles on history of the Russian avant-garde literature, including the legacy of the OBERIU members Alexander Vvedensky, Daniil Kharms and Konstantin Vaginov.
In the 1970s and 80's, Annex published work of new music documentation, conceptual art and texts by French, Russian and American experimental writers: Bob Perelman, Blue Gene Tyranny, Ron Silliman, Rosmarie Waldrop, Alan Davies, Bruce Andrews, Anne Waldman, Alain Veinstein and Yuri Mamleyev, Daniil Kharms (Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev), Anne-Marie Albiach, Ascher/Straus, Lynn Hejenian, John Latta, among them.
Her poetry was described by literary critics as a combination of realism and mysticism, possibly inspired by absurdism of Daniil Kharms or magic realism of Gabriel Márquez.
Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook's group, Daniil Kharms and Joseph Brodsky with Simon Nabatov, and extracts from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake with his own ensemble.
Nature Morte is a setting of a poem by Joseph Brodsky; The Master and Margarita an all-instrumental response to the novel of the same name by Mikhail Bulgakov; and A Few Incidences contains octet settings of the enigmatic texts of the poet Daniil Kharms.