MATRIXSYNTH: 1930s Electronic Music With Animation 4K Restoration "Paper Sound" Nikolai Voinov


Wednesday, January 13, 2021

1930s Electronic Music With Animation 4K Restoration "Paper Sound" Nikolai Voinov


Adam Maciaszek

"This was made back in 1930s Soviet Russia using an optical synthesizer called that variophone [Variophon] which takes a picture of a drawn waveform on replicates it. Sounds are drawn and paper and then dragged across the aperture to play a song. It amazes me that electronic music goes back this far and I think sounds so futuristic so I took the time to restore this little known piece"

Also see 1930s Russian Drawn Sound for additional videos.

1 comment:

  1. Hi. Variophon and Variophone are completely different things. Maybe you could make a proper tag for Variaphone?

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