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Andrei Smirnov
Lev Theremin
and his inventions
+
sensors applications
Theremin Center for Electroacoustic Music
at Moscow State Conservatory
Address: Bolshaya Nikitskaya 13
Moscow, 235871, Russia
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://asmir.theremin.ru
http://theremin.ru
Lev Theremin
(1896-1993) in
early 1980-s
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Inventor Lev Theremin (18961993) playing his thereminvox first electronic musical instrument,
invented in 1919-1920.
Academic Ioffe aka Papa Ioffe, 1920-s
Thereminvox by Konstantin
Kovalsky, 1920-s
RCA theremin, 1930-s
Konstantin Kovalsky during the recording at Moscow Radio in 1930-s
Leon Theremin and his instruments
The poster of Lev
Theremin’s lectureconcert (1920-s),
where he presented
different technical
possibilities to
combine music and
color, music and
gesture, music and
tactile senses,
music and smelts.
Lev Theremin’s light
instrument to control
colored light during the
performance, 1923.
Lev Theremin’s TV system (Dalnovidenie),
1925, St.Petersburg/Moscow
Lev Theremin’s TV system (Dalnovidenie),
Polytechnical Museum, Moscow
Lev Theremin’s TV system (Dalnovidenie),
1925, St.Petersburg/Moscow
Lev Theremin’s automatic door opening system
Klara Rokmore (left)
dancing on TERPSITON instrument for dancer to
control sound by means
of body movement,
New York, 1932
TERPSITON
Fingerboard
theremin (Cello),
1930-s
Fingerboard theremin (Cello), 1930-s
Fingerboard theremin (Cello), 1930-s
Bass fingerboard theremin in
L.Stokovsky’ Symphony Orchestra,
NY, 1930-s
Keyboard theremin, 1930-s
Harmonium, 1930-s
Joseph Schillinger
with the Rhythmicon,
1930-s
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Rhythmicon - first rhythm-machine, 1932 (version 1964)
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Lev Theremin at NKVD (KGB) prison after
his return to Soviet Russia in 1939.
Released in 1947
Building of Moscow “Sharashka” special prison for scientists
Lev Theremin’s Great Seal Bug, donated
to American Ambassador by Soviet
“Pioneers” in 1945
Great Seal Bug
construction
Soviet radiolocation systems, capable to produce and
detect directed microwave radiation in 1940-s
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Lev Theremin (early 1950-s (?))
Commercial Lasermonitoring
eavesdropping system,
based on the same
principle as Lev
Theremin’s “Buran”
system built in 1947
Windowpane theremin
Installation, Brussels, 2005
Good Vibrations
Workshop, Helsinki, 2005
Audio delay line, based on heating (1960-s)
THEREMIN SENSORS
AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
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SHADOWS installation by
Elisabeth Schimana and Andrei
Smirnov, Moscow 2002
Classical heterodyning type Theremin Circuitry
Contact information:
Andrei Smirnov
Theremin Center for Electroacoustic Music
at Moscow State Conservatory
Address: Bolshaya Nikitskaya 13
Moscow, 235871, Russia
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://asmir.theremin.ru
EXTRA STUFF
Poet Alexei Gastev (right), founder of the Central
Institute of Labour, 1922 and psychologist Nikolai
Bernshtein (left) meat with Maxim Gorki (center).
The research on the piano-tusche technique
Moscow State Conservatory 1925.
3-D motion capturing from 1920-s.
Kimo-cyclogram of the movement of hands
of pianist, playing the 7-th Waltz by Chopin.
First painted soundtracks by
Arseny Avraamov, 1929-1931
Boris Yankovsky
illustrations from his
unpublished book
about syntones spectral mutations
from early 1930-s
The beginning of the Symphony of Sirens.
Parts of Sirens (top), motor-guns and cannons,
(a kind of percussion group).
Arseny Avrahamov
conducting his
Symphony of Sirens,
Moscow 1923