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Arseny Avraamov
12+ albums
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See also original artist name in Арсений Михайлович Авраамов. Arseny Mikhailovich Avraamov , (born Krasnokutsky [Краснокутский], 1886 died Moscow, 1944) was an avant-garde Russian composer and theorist. He studied at the music school of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, with private composition lessons from Sergey Taneyev. He refused to fight in World War I, and fled the country to work, among other things, as a circus artist. Returning in 1917, he went on to compose his famous "Simfoniya gudkov" and was a pioneer in Russian sound on film techniques. Among his other achievements were the invention of graphic-sonic art, produced by drawing directly onto magnetic tape, and an "Ultrachromatic" 48-tone microtonal system, presented in his thesis, "The Universal System of Tones," in Berlin, Frankfurt, and Stuttgart in 1927. His microtonal system predated the creation of the Petrograd Society for Quartet-Tone Music in 1923, by Georgii Rimskii-Korsakov. Today, his most famous work is Simfoniya gudkov (Гудковая симфония, "Symphony of factory sirens"). This piece involved navy ship sirens and whistles, bus and car horns, factory sirens, cannons, the foghorns of the entire Soviet flotilla in the Caspian Sea, artillery guns, machine guns, hydro-airplanes, a specially designed "whistle main," and renderings of Internationale and Marseillaise by a mass band and choir. The piece was conducted by a team of conductors using flags and pistols. It was performed in the city of Baku in 1922, cel
top songs
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Symphony of Sirens
3912The March of the Worker's Funeral
2953Symphony of Sirens (public event, Baku 1922)
2494The March of The Worker's Funeral (Excerpt Included In The Version of 'Symphony of Sirens' In Moscow, 1923)
1635Symphony Of Factory Sirens (Public Event, Baku 1922)
1266Symphony Of Factory Sirens
487Symphony of Industrial Horns
358The March of the Worker's Funeral (1923)
199Symphony of Sirens (1922)
1810The Workers Funeral March
15albums
baku: symphony of sirens. sound experiments in the russian avant garde
BAKU: Symphony of Sirens
Baku: Symphony Of Sirens. Sound Experiments In The Russian Avant Garde I
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Baku: Symphony Of Sirens: Sound Experiments In The Russian Avant-Garde
Works 1922-1923
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Baku: Symphony of Sirens, CD 1
Baku: Symphony of Sirens - Sound Experiments in the Russian Avant Garde
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Baku: Symphony of Sirens [Disc 1]
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Symphony Of Sirens
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Baku: Symphony Of Sirens. (Sound Experiments In The Russian Avant Garde)
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Симфония гудков
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Baku: Symphony of Sirens - Sound Experiments in the Russian Avant-Garde