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<\/a><\/p>\nWelcome to a weird and definitely wired world of avant garde rock musicians, DIY circuit benders, vodka-swilling dealers and urban archaeologists\/collectors, all fascinated with obsolete Soviet-era electronic synthesizers: primitive and ungainly beasts like the Polyvox, ESKO, Yunost and the fabulous ANS Photo-Electronic Synthesizer, a surreal device that translates abstract drawings into sound. This strange universe of \u201ccosmic chill-out tunes,\u201d Space Age dance music and electronic chirps & tweets has been rescued by directors Elena Tikhonova and Dominik Spritzendorfer in this fascinating & cheeky documentary incorporating rare archival footage including the last 1993 interview with famed inventor Leon Theremin. In a bizarre twist, many of these instruments were a by-product of the KGB and Soviet military, created in the off-hours by scientist\/inventors cobbling together spare transistors and wires \u2014 including Theremin\u2019s Rube Goldberg-esque \u201cRhythmicon\u201d from 1932, the world\u2019s first rhythm machine, described by a museum curator as \u201cspace wreckage.\u201d A new generation of avant garde rock musicians has embraced the unpredictability and chaos of these instruments: as \u201cBenzo\u201d (aka Richardas Norvila) admiringly says, \u201cOn a Western device, you push a button and get a result \u2026 On a Soviet instrument, you push a button and get something.\u201d Rooting through discarded storage units for cracked and yellowing keyboards, pulling apart cheap toys and re-wiring their inanely cheerful voice boards, these guerilla circuit benders are creating new cosmic sounds from these forgotten \u201cinstruments with expanded abilities.\u201d<\/p>\n