Bone Music Exhibition

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Time Out says

Providing a poignant look at bootleg tunes from behind the Iron Curtain, the Bone Music Project, which held its first exhibition in London in 2014, now presents its inaugural Asian show.

While all culture in the USSR was placed under the surveillance and control of the state during the Cold War, some music was banned outright – notably American jazz and rock 'n' roll, along with certain kinds of Russian music. But even totalitarianism couldn’t suppress the musical desires of some tenacious fans, who used homemade cutting machines (similar to record lathes) to record on old X-rays sourced from hospitals. The ‘bone discs’ they created are a testament to a unique underground culture, cultivated by the Soviet Union’s most innovative music lovers in defiance of absolute authority.

The exhibition centres on the ‘bone disc’ collections of curators Stephen Coates and Paul Heartfield, and also includes the kind of cutting machine once used to record on X-rays. The background soundtrack consists of actual bootleg tunes preserved for posterity by the original ‘bone recorders’.

Details

Event website:
www.bonemusic.jp
Address:
Price:
¥1,200 adv, ¥1,400 on the door
Opening hours:
11am-8pm (last entry 7.30pm)
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