Back in the USSR of the 1950s and 60s, hipsters, desperate for decadent rock 'n' roll, cut illegal records using X-ray film Take out your earpods for a sec - really - so I can tell you a crazy story.

In the Soviet Union in the 1940s ... But anyone who could obtain a recording device could record music on pieces of X-ray film, and these old films could be obtained after hospitals threw them ...

Expressing ethnic identity was not exactly encouraged in the Soviet Union. But Aram Khachaturian got away with it.

I am fascinated by the use of X-ray film to make recordings – what was known as “bone music,” or “ribs.” This rather bizarre, homemade technology became a way to skirt censors in the Soviet Union – ...