CTM 2014 Exhibtion: Generation Z
25 Jan - 23 Feb 2014
CTM 2014 EXHIBTION: GENERATION Z
ReNoise > Russian Pioneers of Sound Art and Musical Technology in the early 20th Century
25 January - 23 February 2014
Curated by Andrey Smirnov, former founding director of the Theremin Center the head of the Sector for Media Technologies at the Center for Electroacoustic Music at the Moscow State Conservatory, the Generation Z : ReNoise – Russian Pioneers of Sound Art and Musical Technology at the Early 20th Century exhibition at CTM 2014 assembles rare original early sound equipment and explores the fate of researchers, sound experimentalists, and inventors active during a Russian period of revolution, war, and dictatorship in the first decades of the 20th century. After presentations in Paris, Budapest, St. Petersburg and Moscow, and the publication of the book Sound in Z: Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th-century Russia(Walter König 2013), the Berlin version of the Generation Z exhibition will be expanded with the new section, ReNoise. A collaboration with researchers and artists Konstantin Dudakov, Pyotr Aido and Evgenia Vorobiova ReNoise will show reconstructions of a selection of the more than 200 mechanical noise instruments invented by Vladimir Popov between the 1920s and the 1950s.
ReNoise > Russian Pioneers of Sound Art and Musical Technology in the early 20th Century
25 January - 23 February 2014
Curated by Andrey Smirnov, former founding director of the Theremin Center the head of the Sector for Media Technologies at the Center for Electroacoustic Music at the Moscow State Conservatory, the Generation Z : ReNoise – Russian Pioneers of Sound Art and Musical Technology at the Early 20th Century exhibition at CTM 2014 assembles rare original early sound equipment and explores the fate of researchers, sound experimentalists, and inventors active during a Russian period of revolution, war, and dictatorship in the first decades of the 20th century. After presentations in Paris, Budapest, St. Petersburg and Moscow, and the publication of the book Sound in Z: Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th-century Russia(Walter König 2013), the Berlin version of the Generation Z exhibition will be expanded with the new section, ReNoise. A collaboration with researchers and artists Konstantin Dudakov, Pyotr Aido and Evgenia Vorobiova ReNoise will show reconstructions of a selection of the more than 200 mechanical noise instruments invented by Vladimir Popov between the 1920s and the 1950s.