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25.02.2012. 10am - 10.30pm. Off The Page Festival.
Sound In Z: The Electrification of the Soviet Soundscape. Presentation of the book "Sound In Z" which relates the astonishing early history of Russian electronic music. Written by Andrei Smirnov, director of the Theremin Centre at Moscow State Conservatory, the book's heroes include Arseny Avraamov, inventor of Graphic Sound and a 48-note scale; pioneering film maker Dziga Vertov, director of the Laboratory of Hearing and the Symphony of Noises; Vladimir Popov, inventor of Noise Orchestras and Sound Machines; Leon Theremin, inventor of the world's first electronic instrument, and others whose dreams of electronic sound and multimedia were cut short by Stalin's regime. For Off The Page, Andrei will give an illustrated talk that draws on the book's mining of materials from various Moscow archives, much of which has not been seen or heard before in the West, but which throws new light on the early history of electronic music and sound art. Location: Whitstable Playhouse Theatre, United Kingdom. Sponsored by The Wire.

29-30.10.2011. Lecture 'Sound Machines of the Revolutionary Utopia. Russia 1910-30s' in the framework of SEEING SOUND 2 practice-led research symposium. The Centre for Musical Research at Bath Spa University, Newton St Loe, Bath, BA2 9BN, UK.

6.10.2011-15.01.2012. Theremin part of the exhibition Red Cavalry: Creation and Power in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1945 at La Casa Encendida, Ronda Valencia, 2 28012, Madrid, Spain.

16-19.06.2011. Lecture 'Synthesized Voices of the Revolutionary Utopia: Early Attempts to Synthesize Speaking and Singing Voice in Post-Revolutionary Russia' in the framework of the conference 'Electrified Voices. Media-Technical, Socio-Historical and Culturological Aspects of Voice Transmission'. University of Konstanz. UNIVERSITATSSTRASSE 10, 78464 KONSTANZ, GERMANY.

9.06 - 20.07.2011. Exhibition GENERATION Z - RUSSIAN PIONEERS OF SOUND ART AND MUSICAL TECHNOLOGY IN 1910-1930 at OSA ARCHIVUM, Budapest, Hungary. Address: 1051 Budapest, Arany J. U. 32. Phone: (36 1) 327-3250, E-MailL: info@osaarchivum.org

11.03 - 15.05.2011. Exhibition GENERATION_Z. Pioneers of Music Technologies in Russia in 1910-30s. Moscow Polytechnic Museum.
Novaya Ploshad 3/4, entr.1, Tel. +7 (495) 628-1257. Lectures:
16.04, 15-00 - Leon Theremin. Participants - Lidia Kavina, Sergei Zorin, Rem Merkulov, Andrei Smirnov. 23.04, 15-00 - Sound out of Light and Paper. The History and Practice of Graphical Sound. The lecture is dedicated to 120th anniversary of Evgeny Sholpo. Participants - Marina Sholpo, Nikolai Izvolov, Andrei Smirnov. 13.05, 15-00 - Biomechanics of Sound and Movement in Solomon Nikritin's Projection Theatre. Liubov Pchelkina.

18-19.12.2010. A.Smirnov's lecture Sound out of Light and Paper, workshop on interactive music. Academy of Music in Lodz. Gdanska 32, 90-716 Lodz, Poland.

24.09-19.12.2010. A.Smirnov's exposition 'Son produit par la lumiere et le papier' in the frame of the exhibition Vois ce que j'entends at the Centre des arts d'Endhien-les-Bains, France.

9-10.10.2010. Conference Music and Politics. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. School of Political Sciences.
10.10, 16-00 - A.Smirnov. Lecture Sound Machines of the Revolutionary Utopia. Russia 1920-s and beyond. Joined with the lecture by Lubov Pchelkina Biomechanics of Movement and Sound at the Solomon Nikritin's Projection Theatre (1920-s).
11.10, 19-00 - A.Smirnov. Lecture - Sound out of Light and Paper at the Museum for Contemporary Arts, Thessaloniki.

22-25.09.2010. ARTMUSFAIR 2010. Meet the Challenges of 21st Century Music. Szymanowski Auditorium. 22.09/18:00 - Electroacoustic Free Improv. 23.09/10-11:00 - composer's panel on Electronics meets Challenges of 21st Centruy Music. 25.09/14.00 - 16.00 - Conference session 4: Electronics in Music Education. Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, Warsaw, Poland.

12-16.04.2010. In the frame of International Conference 100 Years of Russian Avant Guarde: 14.04, 15:00 - L.Pchelkina - Solomon Nikritin and epoch of the Projectionism; A.Smirnov - In the Beginning was the Word. Art of Sound in Russia in 1909-1930; 15.04, 15:00 - A.Smirnov - Graphical Sound - Audio Computing in 1930-s. K.Dudakov - Noise Music in 1920-s as a paradigm of the Avant Guard culture.

25.02 - 25.04.2010. Exhibition GENERATION_Z (extended) in St. Petersburg. PRO ARTE Foundation, Saint-Petersburg, Peter and Paul Fortress, Nevsky Curtina, Left side. Tel. +7 (812) 233-0040, 233-0553
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