{"id":219,"date":"2006-05-13T03:38:57","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T07:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=219"},"modified":"2018-08-22T22:58:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T02:58:05","slug":"eduard-artemyev-stanislav-kreichi-alexander-nemtin-shandor-e-kallosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"Eduard Artemyev, Stanislav Kreichi, Alexander Nemtin, Shandor E. Kallosh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moscow\u2019s University\u2019s Theramin Cen\u00adter pre\u00adserves the only exist\u00ading ANS<\/span> pho\u00adto-elec\u00adtron\u00adic musi\u00adcal instru\u00adment. The ANS<\/span> (named after the ini\u00adtials of Scri\u00adabin), worked on the prin\u00adci\u00adple of revers\u00ading the nor\u00admal process by which music is record\u00aded on film sound\u00adtracks. A hand\u00adful of Sovi\u00adet com\u00adposers clus\u00adtered around this obscure project in the 1960s, and most of them sub\u00adse\u00adquently became famous as orches\u00adtral or film score com\u00adposers. This was dur\u00ading the \u201cloose\u201d peri\u00adod of Krushchev\u2019s regime, when lots of cre\u00adative projects flour\u00adished in obscure cor\u00adners or sci\u00adence, music and academia.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is cur\u00adrently a CD<\/span> release from Elec\u00adtroshock Records, Elec\u00adtroshock Presents: Elec\u00adtroa\u00adcoustic Music Vol\u00adume <\/em>IV<\/span><\/em>: Archive Tapes Syn\u00adthe\u00adsizer <\/em>ANS<\/span><\/em> 1964 \u2013 1971<\/em>, which cov\u00aders this peri\u00adod. There is an excel\u00adlent, detailed review of it on the enter\u00adtain\u00ading and infor\u00adma\u00adtive site of Ing\u00advar Loco Nordin*, an exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal music fan in Nykop\u00ading, Swe\u00adden. Nav\u00adi\u00adgate his site from there, because it con\u00adtains lots of leads to inter\u00adest\u00ading elec\u00adtronic and exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal music. Nordin notes that many of the pieces sound like they were lift\u00aded from a vinyl record\u00ading, and it hap\u00adpens that I have the orig\u00adi\u00adnal vinyl. It is a small-for\u00admat Melodiya album with works by Arte\u00admyev, Kre\u00adichi, Nemtin, Kallosh com\u00adposed on the ANS<\/span> syn\u00adthe\u00adsizer. All of these men sub\u00adse\u00adquently flour\u00adished as com\u00adposers, most\u00adly in film music. Arte\u00admyev is par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlarly known for his scores for Tarkovsky films. The most ambi\u00adtious work on the record is a sound\u00adtrack item for the film \u201cCos\u00admos\u201d, a col\u00adlab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtion of Arte\u00admyev and Kre\u00adichi. How\u00adever, a short piece by Kallosh, \u201cNorth\u00adern Tale\u2019, strikes me as the most inven\u00adtive. Most of these pieces still hold up fair\u00adly well, even though any\u00adone could now eas\u00adily syn\u00adthe\u00adsize sim\u00adi\u00adlar sounds on their com\u00adputer. A plod\u00adding, murky treat\u00adment of a Bach chorale pre\u00adlude is an embarrass\u00adment, but every\u00adthing else holds up well as music.<\/span><\/p>\n

*Nordin\u2019s site is no longer active.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moscow\u2019s University\u2019s Theramin Cen\u00adter pre\u00adserves the only exist\u00ading ANS<\/span> pho\u00ad\u00adto-elec\u00adtron\u00adic musi\u00adcal instru\u00adment. The ANS<\/span> (named after the ini\u00adtials of Scri\u00adabin), worked on the prin\u00adci\u00adple of revers\u00ading the nor\u00admal process by which music is record\u00aded on film sound\u00adtracks. A hand\u00adful of \u2026<\/p>\n

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