Index

FOREWORD Jeremy Deller and Matt Price              4

PREFACE Andrey Smirnov                              6

TREASURE HUNTERS OF THE 1920s Liubov Pchelkina      9

1. IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD
   At the Crossroads                                21
   Free Music                                       22
   The Laboratory of Hearing                        25
   Upcoming Science of Music                        28
   The Enemy of Music                               33
   The Mechanical Orchestra                         33
   The Leonardo da Vinci Society                    39

2. THEREMIN
   Revival of Music.-The Theremin                   43
   Leon Theremin                                    44
   The Theremin                                     58
   The Terpsitone                                   63
   The Rhythmicon                                   65
   The Harmonium                                    67
   Visual Music                                     70
   Eavesdropping and microwave attacks              71
   Eavesdropping on Pianists                        74

3. NEW TREND AND INSTITUTIONS
   Proletkult                                       79
   GINHUK - the Phonological Department             80
   GIMN — The State Institute for Musical Science   82
   Microtonal Music                                 90
   New Electronic Musical Instruments               94
   CIT - the Central Institute of Labour            99
   Order 05                                         106
   ANDROID                                          111

4. THE ART OF MOVEMENT
   Biomechanics                                     115
   The Projection Theatre                           117
   Projection Theatre Workshops                     128
   Machine Worshippers                              131 

5. THE REVOLUTIONARY SOUND MACHINES
   Noise Orchestra                                  135
   Talking Machines                                 136
   Various Sound Machines                           142
   The Symphony of Sirens                           148
   Order 06                                         152

6. SOUND VS. IMAGE
   Sound-on-Film Technology                         155
   Radio Theatre                                    156
   Organizing Sound                                 159
   Eisenstein - Montage                             164
   Dziga Vertov - Enthusiasm: Symphony of Donbas    166
   Audio-Visual Space                               167
   Shumoviks and Practical Sound Design             170

7. GRAPHICAL SOUND
   Sound-on-Film and Graphical Sound                175
   Hand-Drawn Ornamental Sound                      177
   Paper Sound                                      182
   The Variophone                                   195
   Boris Yankovsky — Synthetic Acoustics            208
   Audio Computing                                  211
   Syntones and Synthetic Instruments               214
   The Vibroexponator. How it works                 219
   Achievements by 1940 and Future Prospects        221
   The ANS Synthesizer                              229
   Back to Synaesthesia                             235

8. THE DESTRUCTION OF UTOPIA
   The State vs. Society                            239
   Utopia vs. Anti-Utopia                           240
   Built into the machine                           245
   One month in the life of Evgeny Sholpo           247
   ...the twenty-three-string Electric Guitar       250
   The Professor Imprisoned for Pentatonic Research 257
   Leon Theremin                                    257
   Igor Terentiev                                   258
   Vsevolod Meyerhold                               259
   Alexei Gastev                                    260
   Epilogue                                         261

INDEX                                               263

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS                                     281