Theremin Center founder Andrei Smirnov’s In Search of Lost Sound explores the history of the art of music and musical technology in Russia and the USSR in the first half of the twentieth century.
Developments in the field of sound at that time, which remained unknown to most people until relatively recently, are astonishing even today, one hundred years later. Contemporary practice has proved those unjustly forgotten experimenters right. The overall leitmotif of the book is a look at the history of Russian sound culture from the viewpoint of media archaeology.
The mediators will be Oxana Polyakova, Lead Curator of the Garage Field Research program, and artist Vitalina Strekalova, who curates the project soundartist.ru. Participants will discuss how avant-garde experiments with sound and the theoretical work of Russian inventors influenced the practice of contemporary sound artists, and who among the early-twentieth-century visionaries anticipated global trends in the development of electronic music.
We recommend that you read the book before the meeting.
The paper version is available in Garage Shop with a 10% discount and the electronic version, with a 25% discount, can be bought on the LitRes site. A promocode for the discount will be available after registration for the event.