X-Ray Audio - Theremin "on the bones"
In the Soviet Union 1940s-50s, when music was subject to a censor and the recording industry was completely controlled by the State, music-mad bootleggers discovered an extraordinary alternative means of reproduction: they repurpose used x-ray film as the base for making records of forbidden songs. X-Ray Audio, a project by Stephen Coates, presents the story of Soviet Music on “bones”.
Recording “on the bones” was recreated in the modern concert environment.
Russian romance "Ya Vstretil Vas" and "Vox-Fox" by L.Kavina
Lydia Kavina – theremin performer
Thomas Ang - pianist
Aleksander Kolkowski - sound artist and researcher
Stephen Coates - producer, and director of the arts company Antique Beat
live at Horse Hospital, London 11/12/2015
http://www.x-rayaudio.squarespace.com/
see also BBC report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europ...