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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