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 ...

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 – ...