a| 978386507065

a| eng

a| Smirnov, Andrey 4| aut 9| 20232

a| Sound in Z: b| Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th-Century Russia

a| London b| Sound & Music b| Koenig c| 2013

a| 261 pages

a| Sound in Z supplies the astounding and long-lost chapter in the early story of electronic music: the Soviet experiment, a chapter that runs from 1917 to the late 1930s. Its heroes are Arseny Avraamov, inventor of Graphic Sound (drawing directly onto magnetic tape) and a 48-note scale; Alexei Gastev, who coined the term bio-mechanics; Leon Theremin, inventor of the world's first electronic instrument, the Theremin; and others whose dreams for electronic sound were cut short by Stalin's regime. Drawing on materials from numerous Moscow archives, this book reconstructs Avraamov's Symphony of Sirens, an open-air performance for factory whistles, foghorns and artillery fire first staged in 1922, explores Graphic Sound and recounts Theremin's extraordinary careercompiling the first full account of Russian electronic music.

a| 20th Century (1901-2000) 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6927 9| 20936

a| Music history 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q846047 9| 21373

a| Electronic music 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q9778 9| 22014

a| Russia 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q159 9| 21008

c| BOO

a| boek

b| ORPH c| ORPH j| ORPH.

d| 19027