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The Concert at Baku
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November 7th, 1922.

On this day Russian experimental composer Arseny Mikhailovich Avraamov ascended to the roof of a tall building and directed a concert of factory sirens, steam whistles, artillery, and everything else in the city of Baku capable of making loud noise; for the climax of the piece, the entire fleet of the Caspian Sea joined in with their foghorns.

Although the Bolshevik gov't soon tightened the controls on artists of every field, for a short time the upheaval of the Russian revolution made new applications of the arts like this possible. Prior to the revolution, Avraamov had lived in abject poverty and obscurity, unable even to afford a piano on which to test out his compositions; he would walk around Baku, looking in garbage cans for food, gazing with envy and desperation at the rich men around him and the pet "artists" who followed them like trained poodles. It was an impossible dream to him to think that one day he might not only be fed and housed in return for offering his creativity to society (rather than his alienated labour), but also be given the opportunity to utilize all its resources in doing this. But the revolutionary gov't that took power in Baku took the communists at their word that everyone should be equally empowered to contribute to society in her own way, that the means of production should belong to the people as a whole and be used to make life more pleasurable for everyone; knowing that Avraamov was a struggling artist with avant garde pretensions, they commissioned him to write a symphony celebrating the liberation of the city, that could be played upon the machinery of the city itself.

Riding around on the new public transport, conferring with factory foremen about whistle pitch and timing, the young artist had a brief taste of what could happen if the arts were taken seriously as a means of improving life, not just imitating it. Later, Avraamov was to suffer the same restrictions on his work that the centralized Soviet establishment imposed on everyone; but on this day, everyone in Baku was treated to participation in a moving demonstration of what is possible when art and cooperation are considered integral to social life, rather than quarantined to our "private lives" and "leisure" time.



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Re: The Concert at Baku [Re: shivas.wisdom]
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This is crazy.

How was this recorded?


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Re: The Concert at Baku [Re: propensity]
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sounds pretty crazy on paper, but i'm about 10 minutes in and i just hear normal noises around town.

actually, it's starting to sound like music at around 8 minutes in.


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Re: The Concert at Baku [Re: SleepyF0x]
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wait till you get 13 minutes in. :lol:


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Re: The Concert at Baku [Re: propensity]
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Not sure, I'm assuming strategically placed microphones. It's pretty good quality for its time, I guess the gov't also didn't cut any corners in procuring the finest recording equipment available back then.


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