Elektro Moskva

Elektro Moskva is an essayistic documentary about the Soviet electronic age and its legacy The story begins with the inventor of the worlds first electronic instrument Leon Theremin unveiling the KGBs huge pile of fascinating devices some of which were musical They all came into existence as a byproduct of a rampant defense industry Nowadays those aged and abandoned musical coffins as solidly made as a Kalashnikov are being recycled and reinterpreted by the postSoviet generations of musicians sound collectors and circuit benders The story of the Soviet synthesizers as an allegory to the everyday life under the Soviet system nothing works but you have to make the best out of it An electronic fairy tale about the inventive spirit of the free mind inside the iron curtain and beyond