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Lectures and Workshops
Jun 13, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PMMoni Lazariston, Kolokotroni 25 - 27, Stavroupoli 564 30, GreeceBeing largely underestimated and understudied, the Soviet sound cinema in the brief period of 1929-1935 was characterized by numerous extraordinary discoveries in the field of sound technology. Being based on the contrapuntal method, the early soundtracks became masterpieces of early sound art.
May 16, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PMMuseum of Modern Art, 21st Kolokotroni Street, 56430, StavroupoliThe story of the Variophone, which was capable to produce polyphonic, multitimbral artificial soundtracks by means of automated paper sound techniques as well as to simulate more subtle variations in rhythm such as rubato, developed by Evgeny Sholpo and Georgy Rimsky-Korsakov in Leningrad in 1931.
May 09, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PMMuseum of Modern Art, 21st Kolokotroni Street, 56430, StavroupoliThe program of cartoons with artificial graphical soundtracks by the IVVOS group (IVanov, VOinov, Sazonov), produced in 1931-1936 as well as graphical soundtracks, created by means of Variophone by Evgeny Scholpo, Georgy Rimsky-Korsakov and Igor Boldirev.
Apr 18, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PMMuseum of Modern Art, 21st Kolokotroni Street, 56430, StavroupoliThe story of the Ornamental and Paper Sound techniques, developed in the early 1930-s in the framework of the Graphical (Drawn) Sound technology of synthesizing sound from light that was developed in Soviet Russia and Germany as a consequence of the newly invented sound-on-film technology.
Apr 06, 2024, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PMMuseum of Moderen Art, 21st Kolokotroni Street, 56430, StavroupoliHot riding the Rhythmicon - the world’s first rhythm machine to play the most complicated polyrhythms, developed in the US in 1931 by the Russian inventor Leon Theremin and American composer Henry Cowell.
Apr 04, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PMMuseum of Modern Art, 21st Kolokotroni Street, 56430, StavroupoliThe story of ideas of the composer, theorist and adventurer Arseny Avraamov, who proposed in 1916 in the article ‘Upcoming Science of Music and the New Era in the History of Music’ many new approaches to musical theory as well as future techniques to synthesizing sound.- Mar 30, 2024, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PMMuseum of Modern Art, 21st Kolokotroni Street, 56430, StavroupoliHot riding the Rhythmicon - the world’s first rhythm machine to play the most complicated polyrhythms, developed in the US in 1931 by the Russian inventor Leon Theremin and American composer Henry Cowell.
Mar 28, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PMMuseum of Modern Art, 21st Kolokotroni Street, 56430, StavroupoliThe story of Leon Theremin’s eavesdropping systems, developed in the 1940-s for KGB from the point of view of application of the spy technologies in art and music with the practical overview of all sorts of sensors and detectors to convert electromagnetic processes and light into sound.
Mar 21, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PMMoni Lazariston, Kolokotroni 25 - 27, Stavroupoli 564 30, GreeceThe story of the Rhythmicon - the world’s first rhythm machine to play the most complicated polyrhythms, developed in the US in 1931 by the Russian inventor Leon Theremin and American composer Henry Cowell. One of two survived machines will be presented to the audience.
Mar 14, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PMMoni Lazarisrton, Kolokotroni 25 - 27, Stavroupoli 564 30, GreeceThe story of the Theremin, Terpsitone and Illumovox (1920-1930) – the world's first electronic musical instruments that could be played by tracking the human motion in the electromagnetic field of special antennae, linking the performer's plasticity and pitch and color of the light beam.
Mar 07, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PMMoni Lazariston, Kolokotroni 25 - 27, Stavroupoli 564 30, GreeceThe lecture series gives an overview of some of the most important and radical inventions, made in the 1920-30-s by Soviet inventors and beyond. We will explore how to use a human body as an interface, how to hear the light, see the sound, sing the gesture, dance in tune.
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