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1 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: asmir@theremin.ru Web: http://asmir.theremin.ru http://theremin.ru Andrei Smirnov

2 Lev Theremin (1896-1993) in early 1980-s

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4 Inventor Lev Theremin (1896- 1993) playing his thereminvox - first electronic musical instrument, invented in 1919-1920.

5 Academic Ioffe aka Papa Ioffe, 1920-s

6 Thereminvox by Konstantin Kovalsky, 1920-s RCA theremin, 1930-s

7 Konstantin Kovalsky during the recording at Moscow Radio in 1930-s

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9 Leon Theremin and his instruments

10 The poster of Lev Theremin’s 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.

11 Lev Theremin’s light instrument to control colored light during the performance, 1923.

12 Lev Theremin’s TV system (Dalnovidenie), 1925, St.Petersburg/Moscow

13 Lev Theremin’s TV system (Dalnovidenie), Polytechnical Museum, Moscow

14 Lev Theremin’s TV system (Dalnovidenie), 1925, St.Petersburg/Moscow

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17 Lev Theremin’s automatic door opening system

18 Klara Rokmore (left) dancing on TERPSITON - instrument for dancer to control sound by means of body movement, New York, 1932

19 TERPSITON

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21 Fingerboard theremin (Cello), 1930-s

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25 Bass fingerboard theremin in L.Stokovsky’ Symphony Orchestra, NY, 1930-s

26 Keyboard theremin, 1930-s

27 Harmonium, 1930-s

28 Joseph Schillinger with the Rhythmicon, 1930-s

29 Rhythmicon - first rhythm-machine, 1932 (version 1964)

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33 Lev Theremin at NKVD (KGB) prison after his return to Soviet Russia in 1939. Released in 1947

34 Building of Moscow “Sharashka” - special prison for scientists

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37 Lev Theremin’s Great Seal Bug, donated to American Ambassador by Soviet “Pioneers” in 1945

38 Great Seal Bug construction

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40 Soviet radiolocation systems, capable to produce and detect directed microwave radiation in 1940-s

41 Lev Theremin (early 1950-s (?))

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43 Commercial Laser- monitoring eavesdropping system, based on the same principle as Lev Theremin’s “Buran” system built in 1947

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45 Good Vibrations Workshop, Helsinki, 2005 Windowpane theremin Installation, Brussels, 2005

46 Audio delay line, based on heating (1960-s)

47 THEREMIN SENSORS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

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51 SHADOWS installation by Elisabeth Schimana and Andrei Smirnov, Moscow 2002

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54 Classical heterodyning type Theremin Circuitry

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62 Contact information: Andrei Smirnov Theremin Center for Electroacoustic Music at Moscow State Conservatory Address: Bolshaya Nikitskaya 13 Moscow, 235871, Russia E-mail: asmir@theremin.ru Web: http://asmir.theremin.ru

63 EXTRA STUFF

64 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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69 The research on the piano-tusche technique Moscow State Conservatory 1925. 3-D motion capturing from 1920-s.

70 Kimo-cyclogram of the movement of hands of pianist, playing the 7-th Waltz by Chopin.

71 First painted soundtracks by Arseny Avraamov, 1929-1931

72 Boris Yankovsky illustrations from his unpublished book about syntones - spectral mutations from early 1930-s

73 The beginning of the Symphony of Sirens. Parts of Sirens (top), motor-guns and cannons, (a kind of percussion group).

74 Arseny Avrahamov conducting his Symphony of Sirens, Moscow 1923


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