Piece based on Sputnik model by Martin Juenke. "'Sputnik' contains a musicbox playing the national anthem of Russia, additional sampled sounds coming from the Russian POLIVOKS synth, a computer generated voice reading parts of the Russian Wikipedia article about the Sputnik event accompanied by a heavy usage of a vocoder to modify that voice. "My aim was to capture this specific sense of triumph, optimism and future-orientation, which was inherent to these space endeavours in the fifties and sixties. "Truly a bygone time..." Part of the Smithsonian Treasures project, a collection of new sound works inspired by items from the Smithsonian Museums’ collections - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/smithsonian
