Jeremy Deller presented the forgotten achievements of Soviet electronic music 1920-1930-x pa

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In 1930, Abraham, synthesized the first artificial hand-drawn sound track that is engaged in drawing a sound that surpassed all the technology world for decades. This creative kitchen brewing in the 20 years and worked until the mid 30's, when it would seem, in the USSR, all drowned. Nevertheless, Abraham fought to the end: he in 1943 wrote a letter to Stalin with the requirement to rewrite the national anthem of the USSR.

- What it does not like?

- All. Text Mikhalkov, he rightly blew to smithereens, Aleksandrov's music, too, in general, mixed with dirt. He believed that the anthem of the Soviet Union can not be based on classical harmony, it must be revolutionary - ultrahromaticheskim, that is made in the new tonal system where, say, 48 notes at the base. A text must be synthetic - it was at this time, he and his colleague were engaged Jankowski speech synthesis. Idée fixe of Abraham was to create a poetic laboratory, which was supposed to synthesize voice, repeating the voices of famous people. For example, to synthesize the voice of Lenin and the voice of some of his fundamental work. Therefore, in particular, Abraham believed that the anthem of the Soviet Union should be sung by a synthesized voice of Mayakovsky. And the text of the anthem, too, had to be synthesized - for mathematical rules.

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