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The Future Sounds of Post-Soviet Terra Incognita – Electronic and experimental music and advanced sonic culture all over 10 time zones (CIS, Russia and Baltic States)
Magadan Time (UTC+11)
Vladivostok Time (UTC+10)
Yakutsk Time (UTC+09)
Irkutsk Time (UTC+08)
Krasnoyarsk Time (UTC+07)
Omsk Time (UTC+06)
Yekaterinburg Time (UTC+05)
Azerbaijan Time, (UTC +04)
Moscow Time (UTC+03)
Kaliningrad Time (UTC+02)
Sonic activists Anna Ceeh and Franz Pomassl, run the electronic label and sonic research platform Laton. They have organized and curated numerous sound and media festivals and events in Austria, Slovakia, Belarus and Russia with participation of the most important representative artists (Katya Zavoloka, Terre Thaemlitz, Mika Vainio, Alva Noto, Pan Sonic, Tommi Grönlund, CM von Hausswolff, Mesak etc.) of the genre.
Over the last years, with the project “Sonic Zones” they have pioneered an extensive network and intense exchange with the sonic scenes and its protagonists of the successor states of former Soviet.
This mammoth work comes punctuality 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
It takes us on a sound archaeological research journey into the sonic terra incognita of the successor states of the former USSR, with its urban moloch mega-cities and millions cities, autonomous and isolated areas on the edge of the world, led us in the Arctic, the Urals and Caucasia, Siberia and in the far Far East, dives in and co-discoveres with us this living electronic sound cultures, spanning 10 time zones of this huge terretoriums.
SONIC ZONES – Project containment:
— Record box (14CD bundle)
— Book (release: 12/2011)
— Monthly contributions in various international magazines (VICE) and radio programms (Ö1- ORF) during 2011
— Touring showcase (various artists - featuring presentations and performances by the artists who collaborated on this project)
— Communication & research network
— Archive
SONIC ZONES at VICE:
SONIC ZONES: DAS INTERVIEW
VICE SONIC ZONES: MAGADAN TIME - PART 1
SONIC ZONES: MAGADAN TIME - PART 2
SONIC ZONES: MAGADAN TIME - PART 3
SONIC ZONES: MAGADAN TIME - PART 4
SONIC ZONES at Radio Ö1-ORF:
Sonic Zones: Reise in ein grosses Musik-Territorium
Sonic Zones Teil 1: Die Eigenständigkeit des Westens
Sonic Zones Teil 2: Die Städte der Individualisten
Sonic Zones Teil 3: Kalaschnikow-Electro
Sonic Zones Teil 4: An der Schwelle von Europa zu Asien
Sonic Zones Teil 5: Einen Schritt hinter dem Berg
Sonic Zones Teil 6: Stahlstadtkinder aus Kemerowa und Nowokusnezk
Sonic Zones Teil 7: Zu weit ab vom Schuss
Sonic Zones Teil 8: Im Korsett des Permafrost
Sonic Zones Teil 9: Musik aus Russlands Fernem Osten
Sonic Zones Teil 10: Musik vom Ende der Welt
Sonic Zones Teil 11: Reise in ein großes unbekanntes Musikterritorium
Sonic Zones: Wo einst die Sowjetunion war
CLUB ZONE:
DEC 11, 2009
PAN SONIC – FINAL LIVE SHOW EVER
/RUSSIA
NOV 27, 2009
FOCUS KARELIA / RU
OCT 30, 2009
FOCUS SWEDEN / UZBEKISTAN
SEP 25, 2009
FOCUS KALININGRAD / RU
JUN 26, 2009
FOCUS LITHUANIA / NORWAY
MAI 22, 2009
FOCUS POLAND
APR 17, 2009
FOCUS UKRAINE/BELARUS
MAR 20, 2009
FOCUS SIBERIA/GEORGIA
FEB 20, 2009
FOCUS KAZAKHSTAN/CENTRAL ASIA
JAN 16, 2009
FOCUS ESTONIA
DEC 12, 2008
FOCUS TATARSTAN/ RUSSIA
VIDEOS:
LOVE-FINE/ Kasan, RU live @ Zone Part 11, Secession, Vienna 2009
ADD/ Petrozavodsk, RU live @ ZONE Part 10, Secession, Vienna 2009
GANZHA/ Almaty, KZ @ The Future Sounds of «North Asia», Vienna 2009
PARK MODERN/ Vladivostok, Far East, RU live @ The Future Sounds of «North Asia», Vienna 2009
ANTIPHODES/Khabarovsk, Far East, RU @ The Future Sounds of «North Asia», Vienna 2009
ALBERT RIVKIN/ Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky, Far East, RU @ The Future Sounds of «North Asia», Vienna 2009
KRITCHEV vs BAN/ Minsk, BY live @ ZONE 2009
ZAVOLOKA/ Kyiv, UA @ ZONE 2009
JORJICK/ Tiflis, GE @ ZONE 2009
STIRLITZ feat. POONK/ Kaliningrad, RU live @ ZONE 2009
VOLOS/ Kemerovo, Siberia, RU live @ ZONE 2009
GLJAM/ Tallinn, EE live @ ZONE 2009
F.R.U.I.T.S/ Moscow/RU @ IN TOUCH Festival, Minsk/ BY 2009
RADIUS 1 @ Contemporary Art Tower, MAK, Vienna 2005
LINKS:
Club Zone
Myspace - Club Zone
Laton
Sonic Zones is an idea and concept by Anna Ceeh / Franz Pomassl.
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