The Music of Alexander Nemtin and Stanislav Kreichi for the ANS Synthesizer
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of the ANS synthesizer. It was conceived of by scientist Evgeny
Murzin in 1938 and manufactured in 1958. Its name comes from
the initials of Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin. Music is composed
on the instrument by the composer scraping off bits of mastic
from glass plate and then processing the latter through an electric
construction with light. It is possible to create purely sonoristic
compositions, and also to fixate exact pitches in the music. In
1959 the ANS synthesizer was placed in the Scriabin Museum in
Moscow. A number of young Russian composers came to the Studio
to work with the synthesizer, including Nikolai Nikolsky, Piotr
Meshchaninov, Andrei Volkonsky, Alexander Nemtin, Stanislav
Kreichi, Oleg Buloshkin, Shandor Kallosh, Alfred Schnittke, Edison
Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina and Eduard Artemyev. The Studio was
closed in 1975, and the ANS synthesizer was moved to the Moscow
University. In 2005 it was transferred to the Moscow Conservatory,
and then to the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture. Alexander
Nemtin wrote a number of pieces for the ANS synthesizer, “Tears,”
an arrangement of Bach’s Chorale Prelude, “Voice” and the Suite
“Forecasts.” Stanislav Kreichi was one of the first composers to write
for the ANS synthesizer, and he continues to use the instrument for
his compositions up to the present day. His earliest compositions,
from the 1960s, are – “Echo of the East,” “Intermezzo” and the
music for the film “Cosmos.”. In the 1970s and 1980s he wrote
music for theatrical productions. Since the 1990s Kreichi has
written a whole set of imaginative electronic compositions, most
of which utilize the sonorities of the ANS synthesizer, including
“ANSiana,” the Triptych “Ocean,” “The Heads,” “The Birth of the
Vertical,” “Yeshua and Pilate,” “The Bad Apartment,” “Immersion,”
“Contemplation” and “Confession.” The ANS synthesizer remains
an important artifact of 20th century Russian music, and a continued
source of inspiration for younger composers.
Keywords: ANS synthesizer, electronic music, Russian
composers, Alexander Nemtin, Stanislav Kreichi
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