{"id":1067,"date":"2012-04-10T14:06:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T12:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2014-09-03T09:29:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T07:29:14","slug":"yevgeny-cholpo-pionnier-russe-de-la-synthese-optique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/yevgeny-cholpo-pionnier-russe-de-la-synthese-optique\/","title":{"rendered":"YEVGENY CHOLPO, pionnier russe de la synth\u00e8se optique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The text and video excerpt below document the book by Philippe Langlois, <a href=\"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/?p=1004\"><em>Les cloches d\u2019Atlantis, musique \u00e9lectroacoustique et cin\u00e9ma arch\u00e9ologie et histoire d\u2019un art sonore,<\/em> <\/a>\u00e9ditions mf, Paris, first quarter 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"328\" src=\"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cholpo.png\" width=\"518\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Optical synthesis appeared in the USSR almost in parallel with the research of Pfenninger and Fischinger in Germany. The idea of producing synthetic sound on film therefore germinated jointly in two distinct parts of the world, without any direct relationship between the two discoveries being established. <br>\n\tFrom 1932, Yevgeny Cholpo took up the idea of working on optical sounds at the Leningrad Conservatoire \u2013 Len Film \u2013 with G. M. Rimsky-Korsakoff, starting from the oscillography of natural sounds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l3FlkHRLnEk?rel=0\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cholpo went on to develop his own method of sound production, even inventing a machine that mechanises the animation of sound. He called it the \u201cvariophone\u201d: a photoelectric device that produces optical soundtracks from hollowed-out cardboard discs, turning along an axis and exposing the film\u2019s optical track mechanically.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3FxEO2jZc-Y?rel=0\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From 1932, the year of the first model, to 1948, Cholpo invented three versions of the variophone. The second came into being within the animation laboratory of the Len Film studios, and it was with this device that Cholpo made the greater part of his work: La Danse du corbeau (1932),<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iekTg71tCbQ?rel=0\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><em>La Symphonie du monde<\/em> (1933), La <em>Cinqui\u00e8me variation de la sonate pour piano <\/em>de Beethoven, <em>La Chevauch\u00e9e des Walkyries <\/em>and Rachmaninov\u2019s <em>Pr\u00e9lude <\/em>(1934).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CSUoTo6vSWA?rel=0\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>l&rsquo;inventeur du Variophone un appareil qui m\u00e9canise la synth\u00e8se optique<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3,53,7,6,1,63],"tags":[11,119,19,112,135,12,29],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auditorium","category-featured","category-extrait-video","category-les-cloche-datlantis","category-musee-du-son","category-uncategorized","category-oeuvres-graphiques","tag-cinema-danimation","tag-cinema-experimental","tag-experimentations-sonores","tag-inedit","tag-pionniers-et-precurseurs","tag-synesthesie","tag-synthese-optique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}