[spectre] Re: Official launch of the book 'Sound in Z' in the UK

[Martin John Callanan]

THURS 11 APRIL '13 • 8PM
>
> The WIRE Salon:
> Synthsized Voices of the Revolutionary Utopia: Early Sonic Experiments in
> the Soviet Union.
> <http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/wire-salon-EARLY-SONIC-EXPERIMENTS-IN-THE-SOVIET-UNION.shtm>
>
> Russian author Andrey Smirnov <http://asmir.info/index.htm> gives an
> illustrated talk dedicated to the official launch of his book
> ‘Sound In Z: Experiments In Sound And Electronic Music In Early 20th
> Century Russia’ <http://asmir.info/soundz.htm>
>
> The book tells the remarkable story behind the pioneering experiments in
> audio synthesis and graphical sound that were being conducted in the early
> years of the Soviet Union by composer-theorists Arseny Avraamov, Boris
> Yankovsky and many others.......
>
> *Cafe Oto* <http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/index.shtm>
> 22 Ashwin Street
> London E8 3DL
> 020 7923 1231
> cafeoto.co.uk
>
> *Andrey Smirnov *
>
> *SOUND in Z
> Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th Century Russia
>
> FOREWORD
> Jeremy Deller and Matt Price
>
> This publication offers an introduction to Russia’s contribution to the
> birth of electronic music, sound synthesis and audio technology in the
> early 20th Century. It is a story of politics and power, of the institution
> and the avant-garde, of collaboration and personal achievement, of
> ambition, opportunity and oppression. It is a story of remarkable
> personalities, curious inventions, astonishing performances, radical ideas,
> complex mathematics, pioneering electronics, engineering, design and
> experimentation. It is also a story of patents and funding applications, of
> success and failure, support and rejection, optimism and disillusionment,
> hunger and poverty.
> It is a story of which only fragments are known, not only in the West but
> also within Russia itself. Increased interest in this area in the past two
> decades – not least in the life and work of Leon Theremin – has seen more
> scholarly research in the field. Sound in Z makes a valuable contribution
> to this revival of interest and is intended as a catalyst for further
> academic research. Consequently, much visual and textual material featured
> here has rarely – if ever – been seen either in print or in English before.
> <…>*
>
> The book produced in partnership between Sound & Music, London and Verlag
> de Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Cologne.
> Editor: Matt Price
> Sub-editor: William Lambie
> Design: Modern Activity, London
> Publishing and European distribution by: Verlag de Buchhandlung Walther
> Konig, Cologne
>
>
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