Evgeny Murzin

Evgeny Murzin

Evgeny Murzin or Eugeny Murzin is a Russian audio engineer and inventor of ANS synth.

In 1938 Murzin invented a design for composers based on synthesizing complex musical sounds from a limited number of pure tones; this proposed system was to perform music without musicians or musical instruments. The technological basis of his invention was the method of photo-optic sound recording used in cinematography, which made it possible to obtain a visible image of a sound wave, as well as to realize the opposite goal—synthesizing a sound from an artificially drawn sound wave.

Despite the apparent simplicity of his idea of reconstructing a sound from its visible image, the technical realization of the ANS as a musical instrument did not occur until 20 years later. Murzin was an engineer who worked in areas unrelated to music, and the development of the ANS synthesizer was a hobby and he had many problems realizing on a practical level.It was not until 1958 that Murzin was able to establish a laboratory and gather a group of engineers and musicians in order to design the ANS.

This synth was used by Alfred Schnitke,Stanislav Kreitchi,Sofia Gubaidulina,Edward Artemiev and some other experimenting composers in Moscow.

Most of the music for Andrey Tarkovsky film 'Solaris' (1972) was created by E.Artemiev with ANS.

In 2003 British band Coil had released an album named 'ANS' (using the synth itself).

Links

* [http://www.umatic.nl/tonewheels_historical.html Link one]
* [http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Evgeny-Murzin Link two]
* [http://www.theremin.ru/archive/murzin.htm From the Thermin center 1]
* [http://www.theremin.ru/archive/murzin0.htm From the Thermin center 2]


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