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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I will be telling the extraordinary story of how forbidden songs cut onto records made from x-rays defied the censor in the Cold War-era Soviet Union. with film, images and sound.
The talk will be followed by a demonstration of the art of making an x-ray record and a special performance by singer and activist Sam Lee.
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