Russian X Ray Vinyl

Real medical x rays purchased or picked out of the trash from hospitals and clinics were used to create the recordings.

Russian x ray vinyl.

The x ray vinyl was pressed by small run in melbourne who were fantastic in ensuring it was the real deal. The solution was homemade records ingeniously pressed on exposed x rays called bone music. The x rays were cut into 7 inch discs and the center hole was made by burning it with a cigarette. So much so in fact that the x ray audio project has spawned a documentary a ted talk a book and will in 2017 take part in an as yet unannounced exhibition at garazh moscow s museum of contemporary art in gorky park.

The x ray audio exhibition at the horse hospital in london is the result of an obsession nurtured by stephen coates of antiquarian art poppers the real tuesday weld which began eight years ago. Lavishly illustrated with images of discs collected in russia it is a unique story of forbidden culture bootleg technology and human endeavour. They were unofficial home made 78rpm cut on x ray films and sold on the soviet black market. 50 videos play all mix x ray audio soviet records youtube the story of x ray audio.

I have a question. Stephen coates tedxkraków duration. But a few bootleggers found a way to. According to russian musicologist artemy troitsky grooves were cut at 78rpm with the help of special machines made they say from old phonographs by skilled.

The chronicle of russia s x ray records continues to resonate and capture people s attention today. In the ussr during the cold war era the music people could listen to was ruthlessly controlled by the state. By the bureau of lost culture. Russian x ray records bone music x ray bootlegs soviet forbidden music roentgenizdat jazz on bones music on ribs.

But a secret underground subculture of music lovers and. What would you risk for the sake of music. Because vinyl was scarce in the soviet union the stilyagi would dig through hospital waste bins to. The guy busted a heap of his equpiment figuring out how to cut them robbie adds.