Only one ANS was ever constructed, and it is still used today at Moscow State University by a small group of composers Artemiev's other ANS film music can be heard in the great director Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris and Mirror, and Coil recently privately issued a cd of their own ANS music. The ANS, completed by inventor Eugeny Murzin in 1958, generates sound via an additive synthesis method adapted from the photo-optic sound recording technology used in film, and is capable of producing 720 pure tones (allowing for microtonal scales of 72 notes per octave) it requires the composer to literally draw sound waves onto a graphical score, a 'coding field' in the form of a glass plate that is fed into the machine after it has been physically scraped and smeared by the composer to create the desired sounds. The music ranges from clouds of reverberating microtones to rhythmic quasi-pop. The earliest known release of electronic works composed in Russia on the innovative ANS Synthesizer photoelectronic instrument during the 60s and early 70s - predating the (slightly) better known 'Musical Offering' lp. Bach: Choral Prelude In C Major (adapted for ANS by Nemtin) Kreichi: Intermezzo A Voice Of The East / A. Ruff and Rodgers derived musical data out of 248 years of astronomical data of the movement of the planets, adapted from the writings of 17th century German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler, reulting in a gorgeous, massive enveloping drone.Įlectronic Music Played On The Photoelectronic Synthesizer ANS- E.

Terrific private pressing of computer music realized on the Princeton University Computer Center's IBM 360/91 using the program Music 4BF. Willie Ruff & John Rodgers: The Harmony Of The World - A Realization For The Ear Of Johannes Kepler's Astronomical Data From Harmonices Mundi 1619 If you require a cd or mp3 transfer of any of these recordings for research purposes (many have never been reissued in any format), I can provide this service for a reasonable fee, please send me an email (keymap ). These are from my personal collection and are not for sale (although from time to time I'll put one up for sale on my web store or on eBay if I happen to dig up a spare copy). This is not meant to be a complete discography of anything, but rather an assortment of fantastical artifacts from the golden age of analog avant garde that, in my experience, are the most obscure and hardest to find, never officially issued on CD, the ones rarely if ever seen on eBay or elsewhere (most of these I've only seen once or twice ever), forgotten in the discographies and price guides, perhaps mentioned once in an obscure text book or article, cast away as worthless oddities by unknowing dealers, the ones that you maybe think you saw once but you were never sure if it really happened.

This little gallery represents some of my most treasured records in the early electronic / microtonal / 20th century avant garde genres, a biased selection of the best of the rarest vinyls that have made their way into my hands, stressing private/tiny labels but also featuring some 'major' label obscurities and overlooked gems. Keymap records gallery of avant garde rarities

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