VA - 'Электронная Музыка АНС (ANS Electronic Music)'
CSR307CD (7 March 2025)
CD in digipak
Barcode: 0641871746538
Try to imagine a score sounding by itself without a conductor; an orchestra without musical instruments. This magic is possible by using the musical ANS synthesizer Created by Soviet scientist Evgeny Murzin over the course of 20 years, ANS is an instrument with which a composer can not only create but also draw their music without notes. You can see the twinkling of different lamps, the rotation of grooved glass discs... The drawings on the glass are 'sounding notes'. To listen to the drawn picture, press the button and a wonderful transformation will begin.
Inside the ANS are five rotating glass discs with 144 tones printed (by hand) on each one. Light is projected through the discs and onto photovoltaic cellbank which converts the light into electricity and sends signals to the ANS's amplifiers and bandpass filters. The ANS can generate 720 tones this way and, unlike a human musician, play them all at the same time.
Murzin dedicated his photoelectronic apparatus to Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin, hence the name ANS. Scriabin, the creator of the 'Poem of Ecstasy', and a famous explorer of synesthesia, used in his works a highly chromatic, new type of harmonic style designed to express his beliefs, views and wishes. Soviet music lovers will already know recordings made on ANS from Tarkovsky's films Solaris, The Mirror, and Stalker, Konchalovsky's film Siberiade, and others.
Presented in a digipak with the new artwork by Abby Helasdottir, complimenting the ANS process perfectly.
Officially licensed from Russian state label Melodiya.
Track Listing:
CSR307CD (7 March 2025)
CD in digipak
Barcode: 0641871746538
Available on CD (or any other format) for the first time outside USSR, Soviet composers perform their works on the legendary ANS synthesizer.
Recorded in 1969, "Электронная Музыка АНС (ANS Electronic Music)" features 6 tracks of experiments on the unique machine by: Eduard Artemiev, Stanislav Kreitchi, Sándor Kallós, and Alexander Nemtin.
A 'musical' machine unlike any other which has long fascinated cutting edge, modern electronic composers, notably COIL and THE ANTI GROUP COMMUNICATIONS (TAGC) / CLOCK DVA, that have both released recordings utilising the ANS.
Try to imagine a score sounding by itself without a conductor; an orchestra without musical instruments. This magic is possible by using the musical ANS synthesizer Created by Soviet scientist Evgeny Murzin over the course of 20 years, ANS is an instrument with which a composer can not only create but also draw their music without notes. You can see the twinkling of different lamps, the rotation of grooved glass discs... The drawings on the glass are 'sounding notes'. To listen to the drawn picture, press the button and a wonderful transformation will begin.
Inside the ANS are five rotating glass discs with 144 tones printed (by hand) on each one. Light is projected through the discs and onto photovoltaic cellbank which converts the light into electricity and sends signals to the ANS's amplifiers and bandpass filters. The ANS can generate 720 tones this way and, unlike a human musician, play them all at the same time.
Murzin dedicated his photoelectronic apparatus to Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin, hence the name ANS. Scriabin, the creator of the 'Poem of Ecstasy', and a famous explorer of synesthesia, used in his works a highly chromatic, new type of harmonic style designed to express his beliefs, views and wishes. Soviet music lovers will already know recordings made on ANS from Tarkovsky's films Solaris, The Mirror, and Stalker, Konchalovsky's film Siberiade, and others.
Presented in a digipak with the new artwork by Abby Helasdottir, complimenting the ANS process perfectly.
Officially licensed from Russian state label Melodiya.
Track Listing:
1. EDUARD ARTEMIEV, STANISLAV KREITCHI - 'Music For The Film "Cosmos"' (12:17)
2. STANISLAV KREITCHI - 'Intermezzo' (2:23)
3. ALEXANDER NEMTIN - 'Chorale Prelude In C Major (J S Bach) ' (2:32)
4. ALEXANDER NEMTIN - 'Tears' (4:44)
5. SÁNDOR KALLÓS - 'Northern Tale' (5:41)
6. STANISLAV KREITCHI - 'A Voice Of The East' (2:04)
REVIEWS:
REVIEWS:
"This is a fantastic voyage into Russian Electronic experimentation. It sounds weirdly spaced out to start with but as the tracks progress there is a playfulness to the sound, a warmth and weirdness that is uplifting. You get six tracks here, all different and all wonderful, imagine what other treasures there are to find" (Fighting Boredom)
""Music For The Film Cosmos" by Artemiev & Kreitchi is a great soundtrack and fits the Russian cinema of the 60s. "Intermezzo" seems a bit carnevalesk; it reminds me of an organ player, but it would also fit an ice cream truck in a horror movie. Alexander Nemtin performs "Chorale Prelude In C Major" by Bach, and both of these tracks show that the ANS could also be used for 'normal' music. The following "Tears" and "Northern Tale" show some of the more extreme sounds the ANS is capable of. Don’t forget we’re talking 720 voices that could be played simultaneously. The closing "A Voice Of The East" by Kreitchi is filled with weirdness again. it holds the midst between an experimental composition with a non-western scale and even has a bit of jazzy melody lines in there. I love it... A must-have for people who like 60s experimentalism like White Noise (Vorhaus / Derbyshire), Wendy Carlos and/or Russian soundtracks and movies" (Vital Weekly)
VA - 'Электронная Музыка АНС (ANS Electronic Music)' CD (CSR307CD)
- Record Label: - Cold Spring -
- Genre: Soviet Electronics / Experimental / Modern Classical
- Availability: In Stock
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£10.50
Tags: VARIOUS ARTISTS, Compilation, Soviet Electronics, Eduard Artemiev, Stanislav Kreitchi, Sándor Kallós, Alexander Nemtin.