ANS synthesizer
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The ANS synthesizer is a photoelectronic musical instrument created by Russian engineer Evgeny Murzin from 1937 to 1957. The technological basis of his invention was the method of photo-optic sound recording used in cinematography, which made it possible to obtain a visible image of a sound wave, as well as to realize the opposite goal - synthesizing a sound from an artificially drawn sound wave. Murzin called his invention in honour of a music composer Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (ANS).
The ANS was used by Stanislav Kreichi, Alfred Schnittke, Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina and other Soviet classics. Edward Artemiev wrote most of his scores to the movies of Tarkovsky with the help of the ANS.
Today the only copy of the legendary synthesizer is located in the Theremin Center in Moscow and is largely maintained by Stanislav Kreichi, who runs weekly masterclasses on the instument.
In 2004, British experimental group Coil released ANS, a box-set of experimental drone music performed on the ANS.
External links
- ["The ANS Synthesizer: Composing on a Photoelectronic Instrument" by Stanislav Kreichi] - February 2005 copy at Archive.org (JavaScript required for seeing the pictures)
- [Composing of optoelectronic instrument] - Link down as of June 2006
- [Electroacoustic music]
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