"In the 1920s, industrial music was performed for the first time in the USSR – on carpenter's instruments and locomotive horns. However, the beginnings of ‘noise music’ in Russia were discovered by a German scientist as early as in 18th century! ... The first Russian musical work with a full noise scene (and not individual notes, as in the case of Tchaikovsky's cannons) was created by the avant-garde composer Mikhail Matyushin. In the futuristic opera 'Victory over the Sun' (1913), which Matyushin created together with the poet Alexei Kruchenykh and the artist Kazimir Malevich, there was a scene with a parade over which airplanes flew. ... In Soviet Russia, ‘noise music’ experienced rapid development – in all spheres of art there was an era of the avant-garde. Revolutionary, stereotype-breaking ideas elicited much interest from the general public. ... And although noise and industrial music in Russia will begin to develop again only in the 1980s, its foundations were laid in the 1910s-1920s, much earlier than such stars of specific music as Pierre Schaeffer or John Cage began their work. ..."
Arseniy Avraamov, first Russian noise music composer
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