Wow, all the names are checked! Seriously, though, a very good piece and I did not realize the link between the Italian Futurists and the occult. I always thought of them as people who would declare as atheist machine-lovers if polite society would allow it.
Thinking of Soviet era music puts me in mind of these "industrial symphonies" (following quote from a zine by a firend of mine):
Arseny Mikhailovich Avraamov (1886 – 1944) was an avantgarde Russian composer and theorist. He studied at the music school of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, with private composition lessons from Sergey Taneyev. He refused to fight in World War I, and fled the country to work, among other things, as a circus artist. Returning in 1917, he went on to compose his famous Simfoniya Gudkov and was a pioneer in Russian sound on film techniques.
Among his other achievements were the invention of graphic-sonic art, produced by drawing directly onto magnetic tape, and an Ultrachromatic 48-tone microtonal system, presented in his thesis, The Universal System of Tones, in Berlin, Frankfurt, and Stuttgart in 1927. His microtonal system predated the creation of the Petrograd Society for Quarter-Tone Music in 1923, by Georgii Rimskii-Korsakov. Today, his most famous work is Simfoniya Gudkov (Гудковая симфония, Symphony of factory sirens). The piece was conducted by a team of conductors using flags and pistols. It was performed in the city of Baku in 1922, and less successfully in Moscow, a year later.
The Symphony of the Factory Sirens is Arseny Mikhailovich Araamov’s most famous composition and took place to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Soviet Republic. The original performance of Simfoniya Gudkov took place in 1922, celebrating the fifth anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution, in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. It involved:
naval ships' sirens and whistles buses and car horns all the factory sirens of Baku cannons the foghorns of the entire Soviet flotilla in the Caspian artillery guns machine guns seaplanes trucks 25 steam locomotives a specially designed ‘whistle main’ a full infantry regiment several large choirs a team of conductors on specially constructed towers using flags and pistols.
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Date: 2013-06-07 04:58 pm (UTC)Seriously, though, a very good piece and I did not realize the link between the Italian Futurists and the occult.
I always thought of them as people who would declare as atheist machine-lovers if polite society would allow it.
Thinking of Soviet era music puts me in mind of these "industrial symphonies" (following quote from a zine by a firend of mine):
Arseny Mikhailovich Avraamov (1886 – 1944) was an avantgarde Russian composer and theorist. He studied at the music school of the Moscow Philharmonic
Society, with private composition lessons from Sergey Taneyev. He refused to fight in World War I, and fled the country to work, among other things, as a circus artist. Returning in 1917, he went on to compose his famous Simfoniya Gudkov and was a pioneer in Russian sound on film techniques.
Among his other achievements were the invention of graphic-sonic art, produced by drawing directly onto magnetic tape, and an Ultrachromatic 48-tone microtonal system, presented in his thesis, The Universal System of Tones, in Berlin, Frankfurt, and Stuttgart in 1927. His microtonal system predated the creation of the Petrograd Society for Quarter-Tone Music in 1923, by Georgii Rimskii-Korsakov. Today, his most famous work is Simfoniya Gudkov (Гудковая
симфония, Symphony of factory sirens). The piece was conducted by a team of conductors using flags and pistols. It was performed in the city of Baku
in 1922, and less successfully in Moscow, a year later.
The Symphony of the Factory Sirens is Arseny Mikhailovich Araamov’s most famous composition and took place to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Soviet Republic. The original performance of Simfoniya Gudkov took place in 1922, celebrating the fifth anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution, in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. It involved:
naval ships' sirens and whistles
buses and car horns
all the factory sirens of Baku
cannons
the foghorns of the entire Soviet flotilla in the Caspian
artillery guns
machine guns
seaplanes
trucks
25 steam locomotives
a specially designed ‘whistle main’
a full infantry regiment
several large choirs
a team of conductors on specially constructed towers using flags and pistols.