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 career--compiling the first full account of Russian electronic music.
- ISBN10 3865607063
- ISBN13 9783865607065
- Publish Date 5 July 2017
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 March 2014
- Publish Country DE
- Imprint Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. Verlag
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English