Editing Electronic music (section)

=== USSR ===
[[File:ANS Synthesiser, Glinka Museum.jpg|thumb|200px|[[ANS synthesizer]] exhibited at Glinka Museum]]
In 1929, [[Nikolai Obukhov]] invented the "[[Croix Sonore|sounding cross]]" (la [[Croix Sonore|croix sonore]]), comparable to the principle of the [[theremin]].<ref name=theory>[https://theoryandpractice.ru/posts/17525-ans-shumofon-i-termenvoks-kak-zarozhdalas-sovetskaya-elektronnaya-muzyka «АНС», шумофон и терменвокс: как зарождалась советская электронная музыка] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220210090934/https://theoryandpractice.ru/posts/17525-ans-shumofon-i-termenvoks-kak-zarozhdalas-sovetskaya-elektronnaya-muzyka |date=10 February 2022 }}. In Russian</ref> In the 1930s, Nikolai Ananyev invented "sonar", and engineer Alexander Gurov — neoviolena, I. Ilsarov — ilston.,<ref>[http://www.etheroneph.com/retrozvuk/285-na-puti-k-elektromuzyke.html Журнал «Техника — молодёжи», № 3 за 1960 год. Автор: Б.Орлов] In Russian</ref> {{ill|A. Rimsky-Korsakov|ru|Римский-Корсаков, Андрей Владимирович}} and A. Ivanov — {{ill|emiriton|ru|Эмиритон}}.<ref name=theory/> Composer and inventor [[Arseny Avraamov]] was engaged in scientific work on sound synthesis and conducted a number of experiments that would later form the basis of Soviet electro-musical instruments.<ref name=mirf>[https://www.mirf.ru/fun/music/sovetskaya-elektronnaya-muzyka/ Советская электронная музыка]. In Russian</ref>

In 1956 [[Vyacheslav Mescherin]] created the {{ill|Ensemble of electro-musical instruments|ru|Ансамбль электромузыкальных инструментов под управлением Вячеслава Мещерина}}, which used theremins, electric harps, electric organs, the first synthesizer in the USSR "Ekvodin",<ref name=theory/> and also created the first Soviet reverb machine. The style in which Meshcherin's ensemble played is known as "[[Space age pop]]".<ref name=mirf/> In 1957, engineer Igor Simonov assembled a working model of a noise recorder (electroeoliphone), with the help of which it was possible to extract various timbres and consonances of a noise nature.<ref name=theory/> In 1958, [[Evgeny Murzin]] designed [[ANS synthesizer]], one of the world's first polyphonic musical synthesizers.

Founded by Murzin in 1966, the Moscow Experimental Electronic Music Studio became the base for a new generation of experimenters – [[Eduard Artemyev]], {{ill|Alexander Nemtin|ru|Немтин, Александр Павлович}}, [[Sándor Kallós]], [[Sofia Gubaidulina]], [[Alfred Schnittke]], and [[Vladimir Martynov]].<ref name=theory/><ref name=mirf/> By the end of the 1960s, musical groups playing light electronic music appeared in the USSR. At the state level, this music began to be used to attract foreign tourists to the country and for [[International broadcasting|broadcasting]] to foreign countries.<ref>[http://www.newizv.ru/culture/2005-07-08/27800-zabytaja-melodija.html ''Забытая мелодия. В архивах фирмы грамзаписи обнаружена музыка, приговорённая сорок лет назад к уничтожению''. Баканов Константин. ''Новые Известия'' July 2005] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205181204/http://www.newizv.ru/culture/2005-07-08/27800-zabytaja-melodija.html |date=5 February 2017 }}. In Russian</ref> In the mid-1970s, composer [[Alexander Zatsepin]] designed an "orchestrolla" – a modification of the mellotron.<ref>[https://pkzsk.info/tatyana-anciferova-u-menya-ne-bylo-zhelaniya-pokoryat-mir/ Татьяна Анциферова: «У меня не было желания покорять мир...»]. In Russian</ref>

The Baltic Soviet Republics also had their own pioneers: in [[Estonian SSR]] — [[Sven Grunberg]], in [[Lithuanian SSR]] — Gedrus Kupriavicius, in [[Latvian SSR]] — Opus and [[Zodiac (Latvian band)|Zodiac]].<ref name=mirf/>