On Monday November 9th at 5:30 pm EST, I will be giving a live Zoom lecture on the Soviet x-ray bootleggers including some of the most recent research from the upcoming book ‘Bone Music’ to be published next year by Strange Attractor / MIT press.
The lecture is for our friends the Brooklyn Based collective Morbid Anatomy
"They are images of pain and damage overlaid with the sounds of pleasure, fragile photographs of the interiors of Soviet citizens inscribed with the music they secretly loved, skin-thin slivers of DIY punk protest"
“Leningrad 1946: huge amounts of music have been censored by the Soviet state including Western Rock ’n’ roll and Jazz and forbidden Russian songs. Music-mad bootleggers have come up with an ingenious way to defy the censor by making and distributing their own records. But to do so they have to risk their freedom and build their own recording machines out of sight of a brutal regime. And what do they use as the materials for the records? X-ray film secretly obtained from hospitals after dark”
This is their story
More Details HERE
