Aleksander Lebedev-Frontov

Aleksander Lebedev-Frontov (1960–2022) is a major figure of the Russian avant-garde, a pioneer of Soviet noise and a total artist working at the intersection of sound, collage, and ideology. Born in Leningrad, he developed a radical practice from the late 1970s onwards, drawing as much from Luigi Russolo and John Cage as from the experiments of Dziga Vertov. Propagandist (contributor to the newspaper Limonka in the 1990s), founder of the Ultra label, which focuses primarily on industrial music, and of various artistic organizations, A.L.F. developed a singular aesthetic blending Dada, Constructivism and industrial culture, in the spirit of Hannah Höch.