Elektro Moskva (2013)

ALL 06/12/2013 (ru) Documentary, Music 89 Min
  • Release
    06/12/2013
  • Production
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  • Original title
    Электро Москва
  • Original language
    ru
  • Production Cost
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The Secret History of Soviet Space-Age Electronic Music

Overview

Elektro Moskva is an essayistic documentary about the Soviet electronic age and its legacy. The story begins with the inventor of the world's first electronic instrument, Leon Theremin, unveiling the KGB's huge pile of fascinating devices, some of which were musical. They all came into existence as a by-product of a rampant defense industry. Nowadays, those aged and abandoned 'musical coffins', as solidly made as a Kalashnikov, are being recycled and reinterpreted by the post-Soviet generations of musicians, sound collectors and circuit benders. The story of the Soviet synthesizers as an allegory to the everyday life under the Soviet system: nothing works, but you have to make the best out of it. An electronic fairy tale about the inventive spirit of the free mind inside the iron curtain- and beyond.

  1. Story

  2. Michael Palm

    Editor



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Elektro Moskva (2013) 89 Min

ALL 06/12/2013 (ru)
Documentary, Music
  • Release 06/12/2013
  • Production
  • Original title Электро Москва
  • ru
  • Revenue0.00

The Secret History of Soviet Space-Age Electronic Music

Overview

Elektro Moskva is an essayistic documentary about the Soviet electronic age and its legacy. The story begins with the inventor of the world's first electronic instrument, Leon Theremin, unveiling the KGB's huge pile of fascinating devices, some of which were musical. They all came into existence as a by-product of a rampant defense industry. Nowadays, those aged and abandoned 'musical coffins', as solidly made as a Kalashnikov, are being recycled and reinterpreted by the post-Soviet generations of musicians, sound collectors and circuit benders. The story of the Soviet synthesizers as an allegory to the everyday life under the Soviet system: nothing works, but you have to make the best out of it. An electronic fairy tale about the inventive spirit of the free mind inside the iron curtain- and beyond.

  1. Elena Tikhonova, Dominik Spritzendorfer

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Michael Palm

    Editor

  4. Dominik Spritzendorfer

    Producer