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Andrey Smirnov Nonlinear History Bolshaya Nikitskaya 13, 125871, Moscow, Russia Phone: (495) 629-7678 asmir@theremin.ru http://asmir.theremin.ru http://theremin.ru. Rudolf Koenig’s “osciloscope”. Rudolf Koenig’s. Spectrum analyzer. Rudolf Koenig’s. “Wavetable” synthesis.
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Andrey Smirnov Nonlinear History Bolshaya Nikitskaya 13, 125871, Moscow, Russia Phone: (495) 629-7678asmir@theremin.ruhttp://asmir.theremin.ru http://theremin.ru
Rudolf Koenig’s Spectrum analyzer
Rudolf Koenig’s “Wavetable” synthesis
Rudolf Koenig’s Pneumatic Additive synthesizer
Rudolf Koenig (?) With his pitch standard
Inventor Lev Theremin (1896-1993) playing his thereminvox - first electronic musical instrument. Early 1920-s.
Lev Theremin at NKVD (KGB) prison after his return to Soviet Russia. 1939-1947
Building of Moscow “Sharashka” - special prison for scientists
Lev Theremin’s Great Seal Bug, “donated” to American Ambassador by Soviet “Pioneers” in 1945
Soviet radiolocation systems, capable to produce and detect directed microwave radiation in 1940-s
Commercial Laser-monitoring eavesdropping system, based on the same principle as Lev Theremin’s “Buran” system built in 1947
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.
Lev Theremin’s light instrument to control colored light during the performance, 1923.
Lev Theremin’s TV system (Dalnovidenie), 1925, St.Petersburg/Moscow
Klara Rokmore (left) dancing on TERPSITON - instrument for dancer to control sound by means of body movement, New York, 1932
Military research at Moscow State Conservatory, 1940-s
Poet Alexei Gastev (right), founder of the Central Institute of Labour, 1922 and psychologist Nikolai Bernshtein (left) with Maxim Gorki (center).
Nikolai Bernshtein’s live Kimo-cyclograms of the swimming sportsmen. Different styles.
Composer Aeseny Avraamov