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Russia, 1917 – inspired by revolutionary ideas, artists and enthusiasts developed innumerable musical inventions, instruments and ideas often long ahead of their time – a culture that was to be cut off in its prime as it collided with the totalitarian state of the 1930s.
Andrey Smirnov's account of the period offers an engaging introduction to some of the key figures and their work, including Arseny Avraamov's open-air performance of 1922 featuring the Caspian flotilla, artillery guns, hydroplanes and all the town's factory sirens, and Alexei Gastev, the polymath who coined the term 'bio-mechanics'.
Shedding new light on better-known figures such as Leon Theremin (inventor of the world's first electronic musical instrument, the Theremin), the publication also investigates the work of a number of pioneers of electronic sound tracks using 'graphical sound' techniques.
Sound in Z documents an extraordinary and largely forgotten chapter in the history of music and audio technology.
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