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V.A. (VARIOUS ARTISTS) (COMPILATIONS) - Электронная Музыка АНС (ANS Electronic Music)

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Cold Spring - CSR307CD Release Year: 2025 Note: re-issue of most curious Russian LP from 1969 with recordings solely made on the AMS synthesizer: STANISLAV KREITCHI, EDUARD ARTEMIEV, ALEXANDER NEMTIN, SANDOR KALLOS, drift in cosmic and otherworldy electrified spaces, much ahead of their time... Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.00 More Info 1. Eduard Artemiev, Stanislav Kreitchi - Music For The Film "Cosmos" 12:17 2. Stanislav Kreitchi - Intermezzo 02:23 3. Alexander Nemtin - Chorale Prelude In C Major (J S Bach) 02:32 4. Alexander Nemtin - Tears 04:44 5. Sándor Kallós - Northern Tale 05:41 6. Stanislav Kreitchi - A Voice Of The East 02:04 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. These tracks have only ever been available on vinyl pressed by the state-run Soviet Union label Melodiya over 50 years ago. 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. Copyright © – ВТПО "Фирма Мелодия" (Melodiya) Recorded in 1969. Mastered by Martin Bowes at The Cage Graphic Design by Abby Helasdottir coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/ans-electronic-music-csr307cd "After the simply gorgeous sampler 'Musical Offering, ' which Jo and Justin of Cold Spring released in July 2023, this is the second album about the ANS synthesiser. I can't tell you much about the ANS other than the basics I've written back then, so as an introduction, I'll simply copy and paste my own words. 'The ANS is a Russian synthesiser designed over 20 years (between 1937 and 1957) by Evgeny Murzin, and there is only one. It works with drawings on glass plates and devices that transform light into voltages, and those voltages create sounds. The glass discs spin; Wiki / YouTube is your friend here. Many artists have worked with the ANS, including Coil, The Anti Group Communications.' The advice to check out YouTube and Wiki to learn more about this machine still stands if you are interested. Or maybe check the particular releases of the projects that worked with it. Some additional technical data from the promo sheet already dives deeper. 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 the photovoltaic cell bank, 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 play them all simultaneously, unlike a human musician. "??????????? ?????? ???" is the original title because yes, this sampler is a rerelease from 1969 from Melodiya. And don't tell me you have the original album; I simply don't believe you! On this album, we can find compositions by Eduard Artemiev, Stanislav Kreitchi (with two pieces and a collaboration with Artemiev), Sándor Kallós, and Alexander Nemtin (twice). "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, so yes. This will rumble on a proper audio setup. The closing "A Voice Of The East" by Kreitchi is filled with weirdness again. No idea how or what, but it holds the midst between an experimental composition with a non-western scale and even has a bit of jazzy melody lines in there. Closing statement: I love it. Many thanks to CSR for finding this gem. A must-have for people who like 60s experimentalism like White Noise (Vorhaus / Derbyshire), Wendy Carlos and/or Russian soundtracks and movies. Oh, and sound nerds and/or geeks. And if you fit more than one category, well... *hint* " [Vital Weekly]