Biography
RUS ENGForward thinking. Creative ideas. Realization.
It's easy to say!
I was born on September 29, 1978 in Moscow in the family of a serviceman of the Armed Forces of the USSR; I spent part of my childhood in the GDR (1981-1986) and in Uzbekistan (1986-1988); I graduated from high school in Moscow. Living in Germany, Uzbekistan and Russia, by the age of ten I already had a rough idea of what the cultures of Western Europe, East Asia and Russia were like.
Father: Lev Petrovich Belevtsov (1947-2012), musician in uniform, at various times held the position of head of the song and dance ensemble in the «GSVG», «TurkVO», «UralVO».
Mother: Lyudmila Pavlovna Belevtsova [Ponomarenko] (1942) — engineer with a degree in Electronic Devices, worked in the Design Bureau of the «MELZ» Plant and «NIIEPR».
Elder brother: Oleg Lvovich Belevtsov (1972 ) is a musician, violist, artist of the GASK Symphony Orchestra of Russia, the State Academic Symphony Chapel of Russia.
At the age of 5, I started studying the violin at the German Music School in Weimar, Germany. After the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the German Democratic Republic, my father was sent to serve in Uzbekistan, and I studied in the 2nd and 3rd grades in a special music school named after V. Uspensky in Tashkent. Upon returning to Moscow, I graduated from music school №13. In high school, I studied freestyle wrestling for 3 years. Heavy physical exertion during training did not go to any comparison with the lessons on the violin. In my opinion, nothing gives such a development of long-term psychological endurance as violin practice. I do not know what exactly influenced my choice, whether it was the difficult times of the 90s in Russia, or my teenage protest age, but a year after graduating from music school and not planning to study music, under the influence of Western rock music, I still continued music lessons, but already seriously interested in the electric guitar.
In 1995, it was time to choose a specialty, get a higher education and enter a university. Deciding on your future is a difficult task, and I knew exactly what I would not do in life. At that time in Russia there was simply no place to get a higher education in the profession of musician in the electric guitar class. One of my friends, Denis, was a second-year student at a construction institute. Building houses is also creativity and did not cause me a feeling of rejection, but on the contrary, only interest. Difficult times and the war in Chechnya shocked society, it was necessary to speed up the choice of a profession. I decided to enter a technical university and become a builder. As a result, I entered the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering "MGSU" (MISI named after V. V. Kuibyshev).
I graduated in 2000 with a degree in civil engineering (specialty 2903), the Faculty of Industrial and Civil Engineering, what I do not regret is that higher technical education, regardless of the type of occupation, constantly helps me throughout my life. Despite the fact that I graduated from high school well, with grades 4 and 5, studying at MISI was difficult. I had to draw a lot of construction plans in pencil, since at that time only a couple of people in a group of 30 had computers, and even then in the last courses. And to calculate the "shell" in the "Resistance of materials" is generally the height of complexity!
To get full knowledge of what the real material world is, in my opinion, it is possible only in a construction university.
While studying at MGSU I continued to master the electric guitar on my own — after the violin it was not difficult. At the same time, I studied arrangement and digital recording, since in Russia at that time there was neither sufficient knowledge nor specialists in the field of rock music recording, and the cost of recording in very dubious at that time "professional" music studios was beyond the means of many musicians. At 16, I put together my first rock band - the beginning of my entrepreneurship and, without realizing it, the beginning of encountering the child psyche in adults!
2001-2010 | «Music Creator / Guitar Player»; «The construction of the recording studio»
After graduating from Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, my passion for music finally took over and I decided to devote myself to this business as seriously as possible. Due to the lack of access to recording resources, and the musician constantly needs demo recordings, I continued to intensively master digital recording technologies on a computer. As a result, I have implemented many different demo recordings in my own and third-party music projects in different musical styles. In total, I worked with various artists and musicians until 2009. But the constantly deteriorating situation in the music industry due to piracy in Russia did not allow me or many people I knew in the underground to reach a stable professional level. Moreover, even popular bands were falling apart; pirated CDs were everywhere. With the demise of the CD format and the development of the Internet, pirated MP3s spread and finally killed the music business in Russia. It has become simply impossible to make money by selling records. During this period, in the form of part-time work, in order to have at least some funds, I privately taught the electric guitar to beginners. The unstable economic situation absolutely did not allow any serious musician to support his family, not to mention professional career growth. Many musicians changed their type of activity, many stopped making music altogether. Many talented musicians that I knew were left behind, and unfortunately, we will never hear their great music!
During the same period, within the framework of the charity program, as a civil engineer, with a technical education and having read in advance the book by Philip Newell “Project Studios: Small Studios for Great Recordings”, it was not difficult for me to design and build a small recording studio for one Moscow university (Learn more..). The only thing is, I had to act as a crisis manager, because the whole construction did not go according to plan. Special thanks to my friend and fellow student Dmitry Timoshenko, with whom we spent 6 weeks developing the recording studio project. And the need for a website for a rock band forced me to learn how to develop Internet sites, including this site developed by me.
In the process of working on a rock band and music production, being in conditions of insufficient funding, I often had to solve problems. I've always believed that if you don't consider yourself amateurs and want to work professionally, then a rock band should have its own rehearsal space. As a result, I always found both a place and a way to agree with the owner on the use of the premises practically on gratuitous terms. Thus, for almost 15 years of work, I had 7 rehearsal rooms, including a room in which I designed and built a small recording studio. Money is needed, but not always. In cases where money is not enough, you can always find an alternative way to solve problems. Except for the problems of the human factor!
Life is a long-term team game in which all people are interdependent on each other. Safety, destiny, quality of life and self-realization depend on the people around you.
It so happened that the musicians I worked with were older than me by an average of 5-10 years. Of course, I believed that these are adults and autonomous people and the success of the team, like your success in life, no matter how talented and hardworking you can be, depends not only on you.
Working in a team and based on my observations, I began to notice that most of the musicians on whom the fate of the group and their musical career depended, which for some reason was not obvious to them, were not team players. Many had a frivolous attitude towards themselves, with inadequate ambitions and inflated self-esteem, which, as it turns out later, was underestimated, everyone focused, as a rule, on something insignificant, no one planned for the long term, a serious attitude was only in words, many did not strive to become a specialist in their field, while most musicians infantile believed that they would achieve fame and money without expending effort.
I also began to note that most musicians with inflated self-esteem, at the same time, have extreme vulnerability, as a reaction to criticism, where I often had "to bite my tongue" in order to keep an adult motivated to work.
The relationship between the musicians in the band was without obligations to each other and had a frivolous character — the character of a teenage party. Everyone tried not to burden themselves with any obligations, and excessive fear, as it turned out to be childish, to take on a truly adult responsibility to people for the implementation of serious work on a musical project did not contribute to its realization.
In my example, the psychological weakness and permitted bad habits of one vocalist (I had 6 of them in total!), which subsequently ended with his death, the forbidden bad habits of another vocalist ended with his prison term once again crossed out many years of work, as a result I had to start all over again.
I remind you that everyone depends on the people in their environment, whom, unfortunately, we practically do not choose in life. You are "climbing Mount Everest", and your partners who are in the same bunch with you, because of their frivolous attitude towards themselves and the common cause, throw you back.
I do not absolve myself of responsibility, I was just starting to learn to understand people, I was the one who decided who to work with and who not, and there simply were no other people. And to find psychologically adult, moreover, professionals, which at that time, as now, is a great stroke of luck in life. This applies to any team, including family, friends, neighbors, work colleagues or society.
As a result, I began to notice a similar pattern of behavior not only among people of creative professions, but everywhere — among relatives, friends, acquaintances, etc. The behavior of 25-35-year-olds did not correspond to their biological age. The problems in relationships and the fact that the people you depend on, because of psychological immaturity, ruin your life and their own with their own hands, began to bother me, to put it mildly, and over time, just piss me off. As a result, being at the mercy of forced decisions, I decided to find out the reasons why this is happening.
Underneath The Stars - Unite
Materials: (fragment)Music: Boris Belevtsov, Artem Akmulin
Lyrics & Vocals: Artem Akmulin
Arranged, recorded and mixed by Boris Belevtsov
Underneath The Stars - Drown In Hatred
Materials: (instrumental version)Music: Boris Belevtsov
Arranged, recorded and mixed by Boris Belevtsov
Underneath The Stars - Where The Angels Cry
Materials: (instrumental version)Music: Boris Belevtsov
Arranged, recorded and mixed by Boris Belevtsov
The musical fragments presented above have not been published. I had to freeze the music project that I worked on from 2002 to 2010. Reasons: being in the role of a music producer, due to inexperience, I made a managerial mistake — I "tied" the business to a partner, a fairly well-known theater and film actor, he is also the second guitarist in the band and the main investor. At that moment, it was not obvious to me that the actor/investor, who was 10 years older than me, had preserved the psyche of a 12-year-old teenager in adulthood.
When the preliminary work was completed and everything was ready to take the musical project to the next stage (it was necessary to promote the group and start working concerts) the actor was "childishly" afraid of adult responsibility and refused to fulfill his obligations to the team. He turned out to be psychologically unprepared for this and decided not to continue the musical project, canceling all his many years of work.
Communicating with creative people, I believe that I have gained a lot of experience in the field of relationship psychology, since I often had to work with moody, selfish, arrogant, nevertheless psychologically weak people. Most of them were united by a frivolous attitude towards themselves. The simultaneous combination of high and low self-esteem in a person, leading to the impossibility of his self-realization, aroused my interest. This is what worries me the most now, because I have come to the conclusion that the cause of all the troubles in life is a person's lack of self-realization.
A person's self-realization depends not only on the person himself, but also on his environment. If a person is surrounded by adults with a child's psyche, then it will be almost impossible to reveal their natural potential, their strengths and realize them in life. In addition, you will not be able to create a strong family, friendship, or business with psychologically non-adult people.
The only solution aimed at the possibility of human self-realization is to create conditions under which a person will be surrounded by truly adult people in the worldview. This is what I am doing now — I am developing multifunctional smart networks in which users will create a psychologically adult society.
Rodina
Materials: (My first demo recording was in 1998)Guitars by Boris Belevtsov
As for my favorite thing — playing music, then, as a guitarist and leader of a rock band, I believe that I have received the necessary minimum of practical experience in the field of music production, management, including technical, sound engineering, as well as the necessary minimum of practical experience in the field of motivational "psychologist" when working with biologically adult "children", based on making practical mistakes due to the non-obviousness of this problematics!
In general, as a music writer and arranger, I have always been focused on creating a music product that is competitive by world standards, although I do not really like using the word "product" in relation to music. (partially presented on the website in the "Music" section!).
From now on, I vowed not to deal with psychologically non-adult people and to produce works in musical creativity only at my own expense. With the closure of the project, I decided to freeze all my musical projects.. until better times and opportunities. Either the adult way, or not at all!
2008 - 2014 | «BorisRig | DSLR Video Rig » & «RuRocker»
As I mentioned above, in 2008, my rock band, like any serious project, naturally needed its own website to conduct commercial activities. At that time, the cost of developing a personal website was on average $3000-3500. The investor partner (actor), having heard the price, once again failed to fulfill his obligations to finance the project and I realized that the group would remain without a website. As a result, being at the mercy of forced decisions, I decided to master website development, web design and make a website for the group on my own in a short time.
My senior friend Dmitry Deev introduced me to Vladimir Chizhevsky, and I am very grateful to both of them to this day. It was Vladimir who later explained to me what's what in the world of web development and design. By the way, Vladimir is known for being the author of the Sberbank logo design. As a result, after a year of self—study, but under the supervision of Vladimir, I coped with the task — I made a website for a rock band and for many other things later. If there is not enough money, you can always find an alternative solution to the problem! On third-party Internet projects, I simultaneously mastered the discipline of SEO optimization (Search Engine Optimization).
At that time, there was a music TV channel «A-One» in Russia, the only TV channel that was dedicated to alternative rock music. I was counting on him to promote my project. But after an unexpected format change in the fall of 2011, hip-hop began to be broadcast on «A-One». As a result, there is simply not a single platform for rock music promo left in Russia. As a result, I made up my own — «Ruroker | TV online, Radio, Magazine» (Registration Certificate EL No. FS 77 - 57802 dated April 18, 2014). At the moment, «Rurocker» is being frozen and restyled — the concept is changing. I developed the concept and independently made up the pilot version of the glossy magazine.
I also planned to shoot the promo videos of my rock band with my own efforts. The cost of professional equipment for DSLR shooting ranged from $1,000 to $4,500 for a steadicam or glidetrack. As a result, I designed both a steadicam, a glidetrack and a rig for DSLR video shooting. My similar, slightly inferior, semi-professional prototypes cost me $30 for a steadicam and $100 for a glidetrack, respectively!
BorisRig «Swimcam Beta»
BorisRig «Teleshka Beta»
BorisRig «DSLR Rig Beta»
2013 - 2014 | «BorisWEB Media Group»
In 2013-2014, various ideas for third-party media projects were born, which led to the creation of a niche media products studio «BorisWEB | Studio Media Products. Niche Focus», in which I periodically generate ideas. Development concept: idea + domain name + branding and corporate identity + prototyping + promotion of the prototype in the TOP10, if necessary (SEO) + several years of stable "web-aging" = exit — the client receives a ready-made online platform for conducting online business and saves up to 80% on marketing. The business is unique, but highly risky, similar to the music business and venture capital investment — more than 98% of projects will die. You have to give up quick earnings for the sake of long-term success and a decent result.
The uniqueness of the Internet is that it allows only one person, with technical education and a creative approach, without leaving their home computer, to generate online services that solve the problems of a huge number of people with a long-term perspective of global growth. Let's see what comes of it.
Brands
Creating global brands and trademarks.
and many others.
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2015 - 2024 | «SmartNets» & «Conflict-free Thinking™ | Technology»
Based on personal observations over the past 25-30 years, as well as communication with people of different professions and social classes, I have come to the conclusion that, unfortunately, in most cases, many talented people ruin their lives, fates and careers with their own hands. Yes, you can blame only the circumstances, you can blame exclusively the people around you, on whom a person was dependent, but basically, in all his troubles, the person himself turns out to be largely to blame.
Many of those I knew were never able to find themselves in life, but I never met any untalented people. The vast majority were gifted with natural talents. It was often unclear to me why a person would act to his own detriment. Trying to find out the reasons, I, in fact, without realizing it, was engaged in psychoanalysis of people from my environment, as a result of which I formed a number of fundamental questions on which the safety, quality of life and fate of any person directly depends. Namely:
- why does a person have a frivolous attitude towards himself, as a result of which he does not care about himself;
- why does a person not value his own reputation;
- why does a person not understand that he is interdependent on the people around him, on whom his safety, quality of life and fate depend;
- the reasons for mutual insults and humiliations;
- why do people often not listen and do not hear each other, provided that a person needs to constantly negotiate with each other to solve personal security issues;
- why can a person create huge problems out of nothing;
- where does so much bias and obsession in judgments come from;
- the reasons for the conviction in one's own rightness, while a person does not allow the thought that he can be wrong;
- the reasons for arrogance, contempt and hatred for people etc..
As a result of my logical reflections, I came to the conclusion that most people never grow up psychologically, they remain "children" and "teenagers" at a biologically mature age. As a result, they create thousands of problems for each other, hence domestic conflicts and divorces, drug addiction and crime, hatred and aggression in society, global crises and wars, but, most importantly — lack of self-realization and dissatisfaction of a person in life!
The child's psyche is formed under the influence of the environment and depending on it, that is, it is formed depending on supposedly psychologically immature parents and teachers, friends and acquaintances, for example, from psychologically non-adult bloggers and media personalities generating the corresponding content, etc., and accordingly, depending on the circumstances created by all these people regarding the child, who already has a child's psyche by default.
Any person from childhood is not able to influence the choice of people in their environment — it falls by chance, as luck would have it. But it is possible to influence the formation of a worldview that will make a person truly adult by developing balanced analytical thinking. That is, it is possible to create certain conditions within the environment itself, under which a child can form a psychologically strong, self-confident personality, with a balanced self-esteem, capable of independently assessing his real capabilities; without a childish fear of making mistakes; able to say a categorical adult "no" to self-destruction; possessing everyday logical judiciousness and capable of qualitatively solving the problems of others of people!
Initially, in 2015, I developed the «Conflict-Free Thinking™» methodology aimed at minimizing conflicts in society. Unfortunately, as I later realized, conflict-free thinking towards each other can only be mastered by people without signs of a child's psyche. Subsequently, having spent almost 10 years researching the problem of preserving the child's psyche in biologically adult people and having developed 44 signs of the child's psyche, I created a new method, a system of colored block signs «Conflict-Free Thinking™», which formed the basis of the content of smartnets, where users can create a psychologically adult society.
Each smartnet is a multifunctional social network, taking into account the peculiarities of different cultures, in which families with children, as well as everyone, in addition to safe communication and acquaintance among psychologically adult people, in the course of everyday life, firstly, learn to communicate without insults, and secondly, fight against signs of a child's psyche in adults, teenagers and children.
The main task of each smart network is to create an environment of psychologically adult people in their worldview, under the influence and depending on which each child will be able to focus on revealing their natural potential with the goal of further self-realization in life.
Due to the special social importance of the project, I decided to improve my personal effectiveness skills — in 2015-2016 I completed an MBA correspondence course and continue to listen to lectures from time to time.
To service these smart networks in the near future, I plan to create global management company «One Account Products» and assemble an international team of strategic business partners consisting of experienced people and attract "smart" money. In this regard, I invite everyone, all psychologically adults, to "Welcome!". The work continues ..
SmartNets
Smart networks in which users create a psychologically adult society!
