Baku: Symphony of Sirens. Sound Experiments in the Soviet Avant-Garde 1908-1942 (2008)
Leopoldo Amigo; Miguel Molina Alarcón; Various interprets
XLD Rip | lossless | FLAC (Tracks)+LOG+CUE+Scans (600dpi) | 77:30 min + 75:56 min | 812MB
Label: ReR RAG (Recommended Records) | Genre: Classical / style: Avant-Garde
The Symphony of Sirens. In 1922 Arseni Avraamov composed and conducted a visionary public sound event, activating the entire port city of Baku: its factory sirens, the ships horns of the entire Caspian flotilla, two batteries of artillery, several full infantry regiments, trucks, seaplanes, 25 steam locomotives, an array of pitched whistles and several massive choirs. Constantly referenced but forever lost, this extraordinary event is here painstakingly reconstructed and spatialised to approximate the original experience.(Booklet Extract)