Lev Theremin

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Andrei Smirnov
Lev Theremin and his inventions sensors
applications
Theremin Center for Electroacoustic Musicat
Moscow State Conservatory Address Bolshaya
Nikitskaya 13 Moscow, 235871, Russia E-mail
asmir_at_theremin.ru Web http//asmir.theremin.ru
http//theremin.ru
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Lev Theremin (1896-1993) in early 1980-s
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Inventor Lev Theremin (1896-1993) playing his
thereminvox - first electronic musical
instrument, invented in 1919-1920.
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Academic Ioffe aka Papa Ioffe, 1920-s
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Thereminvox by Konstantin Kovalsky, 1920-s
RCA theremin, 1930-s
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Konstantin Kovalsky during the recording at
Moscow Radio in 1930-s
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Leon Theremin and his instruments
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The poster of Lev Theremins lecture-concert
(1920-s), where he presented different technical
possibilities to combine music and color, music
and gesture, music and tactile senses, music and
smelts.
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Lev Theremins light instrument to control
colored light during the performance, 1923.
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Lev Theremins TV system (Dalnovidenie), 1925,
St.Petersburg/Moscow
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Lev Theremins TV system (Dalnovidenie),
Polytechnical Museum, Moscow
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Lev Theremins TV system (Dalnovidenie), 1925,
St.Petersburg/Moscow
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Lev Theremins automatic door opening system
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Klara Rokmore (left) dancing on TERPSITON -
instrument for dancer to control sound by means
of body movement, New York, 1932
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TERPSITON
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Fingerboard theremin (Cello), 1930-s
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Fingerboard theremin (Cello), 1930-s
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Fingerboard theremin (Cello), 1930-s
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Bass fingerboard theremin in L.Stokovsky
Symphony Orchestra, NY, 1930-s
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Keyboard theremin, 1930-s
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Harmonium, 1930-s
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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
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Building of Moscow Sharashka - special prison
for scientists
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Lev Theremins Great Seal Bug, donated to
American Ambassador by Soviet Pioneers in 1945
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Great Seal Bug construction
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Soviet radiolocation systems, capable to produce
and detect directed microwave radiation in 1940-s
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Lev Theremin (early 1950-s (?))
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Commercial Laser-monitoring eavesdropping system,
based on the same principle as Lev Theremins
Buran system built in 1947
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Windowpane theremin Installation, Brussels, 2005
Good Vibrations Workshop, Helsinki, 2005
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Audio delay line, based on heating (1960-s)
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THEREMIN SENSORS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
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SHADOWS installation by Elisabeth Schimana and
Andrei Smirnov, Moscow 2002
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Classical heterodyning type Theremin Circuitry
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Contact information
Andrei Smirnov Theremin Center for
Electroacoustic Musicat Moscow State
Conservatory Address Bolshaya Nikitskaya 13
Moscow, 235871, Russia E-mail
asmir_at_theremin.ru Web http//asmir.theremin.ru

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EXTRA STUFF
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Poet Alexei Gastev (right), founder of the
Central Institute of Labour, 1922 and
psychologist Nikolai Bernshtein (left) meat with
Maxim Gorki (center).
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The research on the piano-tusche
technique Moscow State Conservatory 1925. 3-D
motion capturing from 1920-s.
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Kimo-cyclogram of the movement of hands of
pianist, playing the 7-th Waltz by Chopin.
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First painted soundtracks by Arseny Avraamov,
1929-1931
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Boris Yankovsky illustrations from his
unpublished book about syntones - spectral
mutations from early 1930-s
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The beginning of the Symphony of Sirens. Parts of
Sirens (top), motor-guns and cannons, (a kind of
percussion group).
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Arseny Avrahamov conducting his Symphony of
Sirens, Moscow 1923