USSR synth lab 1930

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In 1930s several laboratories were created in USSR in order to experiment on synthesized sound. This is the cartoon "Crow's Dance" featuring some of that synth music.

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According to the source this instrument is named Emiriton. I discovered a website - museum of soviet vintage synthesizers, this is a bloody paradise: http://www.ruskeys.net/eng/synths.php

It seems the soviets were highly advanced in this area. Bob Moog and Buchla might be associated with electronic music worldwide, but they definitely were not the originators of electronic musical devices, by the way Moog began his career by making Thermins, which was a soviet invention.
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Holy shit that Russian web-site is pure gold :)

Well, I think the Russians were among the first making the electronic sound, but somehow I still consider them 2nd generation (most of them).

The 1st generation are the oldest pioneers, like the Italian, Luigi Russolo, who did experiments in 1910s ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Russolo ) - and after that the italian / french / german triangle, composers like

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgard_varese

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Schaeffer

and then of-course some American innovators like

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurens_Hammond

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaddeus_Cahill

well, I guess there are two russians that we can consider among the earliest first generation...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Theremin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schillinger

all interesting guys to read about.


I've spent many nights with my friends talking about and listening to the early roots of electronic music.
It's amazing how it got it's inception in the classical music, and then went on it's own way (more or less).
Also amazing how all the Kraftwerk induced wave of (lets call it simpler) electronic beats music has almost nothing to do with the serious electronic music (serious as a synonym for classical, not serious as in literally serious).
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sounds good....so when are we coming over pande? :mrgreen:
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Well, somewhere in the next 10 days will be good - because after that - I'll be busy for the next few years :D :D :D
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