Participants of the third season worked with archive documents and reminiscences of residents of the Narkomfin Building, interacting with its real and imagined spaces and addressing the sound experiments of the Soviet avant-garde. The result of their research was six audio works in harmony with the architecture of the building and reacting to its history that are performed in various genres, from an electro-acoustic play to a sound walk.

Acid rocker aborigen fills the building with the sound of an electric guitar; DJ and experimental physicist standard model passes the design drawings through the digital emulator of the ANS synthesizer; the indie project Kosaya Gora dedicates its soundscape, created from family archives and field recordings, to the Narkomfin Building; tima ishet svet is a mixtape; and the psychedelic duet Brodyachaya Sobaka create a play about the Soviet utopian dream and its failure.

In the special edition of the radio show, Samoe Bolshoe Prostoe Chislo (SBPCh, The Largest Prime Number) explore archive testimony and criminal cases connected to the building at 25 Novinsky Bulvar.

Cover: Moisei Ginzburg and Ignaty Milinis, 2nd Building of the Council of People’s Commissars, internal view of corridor of Type F apartments. Illustration from Moisei Ginzburg’s book Dwelling.