Sounds BeyondAuthor :
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Published : Friday 24 December 2021
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Sounds BeyondA charts the origins of Arvo PArtâ?Ts most famous music, which wasA created in dialogue withA underground creativeA circlesA inA the USSR.A InA Sounds Beyond, Kevin C. KarnesA studiesA the interconnectedA alternativeA music and art scenes in the USSR during the second half of the 1970s,A revealingA the audacious origins of some of Estonian composer Arvo PArtâ?Ts most famous music.A Karnes shows how PArtâ?Ts workA was createdA withinA a vital yet forgotten culture of collective experimentation,A the SovietA underground.A A Mining archives and oral history from across the former USSR,A Sounds BeyondA carefully situates modes ofA creativeA experimentationA within theirA late socialist contexts.A In documenting PArtâ?Ts work, Karnes revealsA theA rich creative cultureA thatA thrived covertlyA in theA USSRA andA the network ofA figuresA that made underground performances possible: students, audio engineers,A sympathetic administrators, star performers, and aspiring DJs.A Sounds BeyondA advances aA new understanding of PArtâ?Ts music as an expression ofA theA aesthetic and religious commitments shared, nurtured, and celebrated by many in Soviet underground circles. At the same time, this story attests to the lasting power of PArtâ?Ts music. Dislodging the mythology of the solitaryA creativeA genius, Karnes shows that PArtâ?TsA work would be impossible without community.
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