In search of lost sound. Experimental sound culture of Russia and the USSR of the first half of the twentieth century

The monograph of the founder of the Termen Center Andrei Smirnov “In search of lost sound” is devoted to the history of the art of sound and musical technology in Russia and the USSR of the first half of the twentieth century. The development of that time in the field of sound, for a long time unknown to the wide reader, is amazing now, after almost a hundred years. The correctness of undeservedly forgotten experimenters is confirmed by modern practice. The book that unites the leitmotif is a view of the history of Russian sound culture from the point of view of mediaarcheology.
“The fate of the culture of revolutionaries-experimentalists is sad. Many projects that did not fit into the paradigms of the totalitarian culture of 1930–1950? X, are forgotten, tools and other material evidence of the era are destroyed, key documents are lost, and the preserved - scattered, scattered through various archives. In fact, we are forced to excavation on the ruins of the culture of 1920? X. Many inventions, which seemed utopian, recreated decades later, some, not knowing the origins, we use today, and many ideas, apparently, have a second birth, ” - Andrei Smirnov