<p style="color: #ffffff;"><a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Bones-9455.jpg"><img class="alignnone  wp-image-4964" src="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Bones-9455.jpg" alt="Bones-9455" width="386" height="429" /></a></p>
<p style="color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #000000;">FORBIDDEN SOVIET MUSIC ‘ON THE BONE’</span></p>
<p style="color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #000000;">8 October, 7pm
£6 Advance / £8 on the door (book <a href="http://www.wegottickets.com/event/287697">here</a>)
The Horse Hospital, 1 Colonnade, LONDON WC1N 1JD</span></p>
Composer <strong>STEPHEN COATES </strong>tells an extraordinary story of forbidden music, cold war culture and Soviet bootleg technology.
<p style="color: #aaaaaa;"><span style="color: #000000;">Many older people in Russia remember seeing and hearing strange vinyl flexi-discs when they were young. The discs had partial images of skeletons on them and were called ‘Bones’ or ‘Ribs’.</span></p>
<p style="color: #aaaaaa;"><span style="color: #000000;">In the post war period, both the Soviet recording industry and its permissable musical repertoire were ruthlessly controlled by the State. But a vibrant, secret and risky trade grew up in bootleg records containing forbidden music. These were made on used X-Rays obtained from hospitals, cut into discs and engraved with the grooves of copied gramophone records.</span></p>
<p style="color: #aaaaaa;"><span style="color: #000000;">Stephen will present ‘X-Ray Audio’, an Arts Council England sponsored project and 2015 publication by Strange Attractor Press, which will illustrate this incredible tale through photographs, essays, sound and film with testimonies from surviving Russians of the period.</span></p>
<p style="color: #aaaaaa;"><span style="color: #000000;">Sound artist and researcher <strong>ALEKS KOLKOWSKI</strong> will be providing a live demonstration of recording onto X-Ray plates using vintage analogue record-cutting lathes and a commentary on groove-based recording techniques.</span></p>
<p style="color: #aaaaaa;"><a href="www.x-rayaudio.squarespace.com"><span style="color: #000000;">More information</span></a>
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