We host live X-Ray Audio events when we tell the story of the Soviet X-Ray bootleggers and cut new x-ray records from musical performances by artists who have included Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Marc Almond, Barry Adamson, Marcela Puppini, Veronika Harcsa, Lydia Kavina, Alexander Hacke (Eineinstürzende Neubauten) amongst others.
To date we have brought the project to New York University, Brooklyn's Museum of Morbid Anatomy, Strom festival Copenhagen; The Horse Hospital London; The Baltic Gateshead; TED X Krakow; Vivid Projects Birmingham; Kings College London; Krake Festival Berlin; Rough Trade London; Millennium Court Arts Centre Ireland; Berlin House of Culture; the BRIT school London; GARAGE museum, Moscow; New Hollandia, St Petersburg; HOME Manchester, Pushkin House, London, the Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, The Science Museum London, Ville Heike, Berlin and many other venues.
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The illicit but compelling story of bootleg recordings at British Library
Now rendered virtually obsolete in the age of the internet, illegal records occupy a fascinating niche in audio history.
Stephen Coates, musician and co-curator of the X-Ray Audio project, relates a whirlwind history of bootleg, pirate and counterfeit audio drawn from research into the Soviet Cold war x-ray records, Eastern bloc samizdat recordings and a surprising trove in the British Library itself.
