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The WIRE Salon: <br>
<a href="http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/wire-salon-EARLY-SONIC-EXPERIMENTS-IN-THE-SOVIET-UNION.shtm" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Synthsized Voices of the Revolutionary Utopia: Early Sonic Experiments in the Soviet Union. </span></a><br>
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Russian author <a href="http://asmir.info/index.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Andrey Smirnov</span></a> gives an illustrated talk dedicated to the official launch of his book <a href="http://asmir.info/soundz.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue"><br>
‘Sound In Z: Experiments In Sound And Electronic Music In Early 20th Century Russia’</span></a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span>The book tells the remarkable story behind the pioneering <span style>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.......</span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><i><span>Andrey Smirnov </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><i><span>SOUND in Z<br>
Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th Century Russia<br>
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FOREWORD <br>
Jeremy Deller and Matt Price<br>
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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.<br>
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. <…></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span>The book produced in partnership between Sound & Music, London and Verlag de Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Cologne. </span></p>
<span>Editor: Matt Price<br>
Sub-editor: William Lambie<br>
Design: Modern Activity, London<br>
Publishing and European distribution by: Verlag de Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Cologne</span><br>
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