Music on the bone: UK artists find inspiration in Soviet ‘X-ray audio’

Russia Beyond The Headlines ^ | 04.18.2016 | Alexandra Guzeva

[ameribbean expat]

Incredibly, music-mad bootleggers found an extraordinary way to copy illegal gramophone records of Western jazz, rock 'n' roll and forbidden Russian music – they built homemade recording machines and used X-ray film as the base for their illegal recordings.

[real saxophonist]

In before B B B B Bad...

[real saxophonist]

Seriously, that’s an interesting article.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[To Hell With Poverty]

Bump for later

[W.]

Where there's a will, there's a way.

That one's gotten me out of more than a few jams...

[elcid1970]

Google “A Firsthand Look at the Soviet Union”, Thomas T. Hammond, 1958.

The first official postwar tourist to the USSR, Dr. Hammond described this recording method used by Moscow university students, including one who said, “That’s Glenn Miller’s `Moonlight Serenade’ on one side, with a compound fracture on the other!”