Noise Music in Russia

Source: Russia Beyond. An argument that industrial and musique concrete appear in Soviet Russian before it rose in Europe.

Avraamov’s most famous noise work is “The Symphony of Horns”, which provides for the use of cannon and pistol shots, factory horns, steam whistling, aircraft noise and other “machine” sounds. The main instrument was the “honk line” – from 20 to 50 steam horns installed on the main steam pipe. however, it was possible to perform the composition on steam locomotive and steamship horns, “in case of a sufficient number of mobile boilers (locomotives and ships) and the possibility of their concentration in one area (railway station, railway pier).” The Symphony of Horns was actually performed in Baku in 1922 and in Moscow in 1923.