Elektro Moskva

This enjoyably droll documentary delves into hidden corners of the USSR’s electronic age, uncovering synthesiser relics in dusty basements and showing how a whole generation of post-Soviet composers are adapting this heavy-duty gadgetry for their own ends.

Soviet electronic music was always intertwined with the defence industry, right back to theremin-inventor (and KGB advisor) Leon Theremin. This enjoyably droll documentary delves into hidden corners of the USSR’s electronic age, uncovering synthesiser relics in dusty basements and showing how a whole generation of post-Soviet composers are adapting this heavy-duty gadgetry for their own ends. A hymn to the ingenuity that went on behind the iron curtain.

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