Slide1:
Andrey Smirnov
Nonlinear History
Bolshaya Nikitskaya 13, 125871, Moscow, Russia
Phone: (495) 629-7678 asmir@theremin.ru http://asmir.theremin.ru http://theremin.ru
Slide2: Rudolf Koenig’s “osciloscope”
Slide3: Spectrum analyzer Rudolf Koenig’s
Slide5: “Wavetable” synthesis Rudolf Koenig’s
Slide6: Pneumatic Additive synthesizer Rudolf Koenig’s
Slide7: Rudolf Koenig (?)
With his pitch standard
Slide10: Inventor Lev Theremin (1896-1993) playing his thereminvox - first electronic musical instrument. Early 1920-s.
Slide11: Lev Theremin at NKVD (KGB) prison after his return to Soviet Russia. 1939-1947
Slide12: Building of Moscow “Sharashka” - special prison for scientists
Slide13: Classical heterodyning type Theremin Circuitry
Slide16: Lev Theremin’s Great Seal Bug, “donated” to American Ambassador by Soviet “Pioneers” in 1945
Slide17: Great Seal Bug construction – a sort of microwave theremin
Slide19: Soviet radiolocation systems, capable to produce and detect directed microwave radiation in 1940-s
Slide20: Commercial Laser-monitoring eavesdropping system, based on the same principle as Lev Theremin’s “Buran” system built in 1947
Slide22: 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.
Slide23: Lev Theremin’s light instrument to control colored light during the performance, 1923.
Slide24: Lev Theremin’s TV system (Dalnovidenie), 1925, St.Petersburg/Moscow
Slide26: Klara Rokmore (left) dancing on TERPSITON - instrument for dancer to control sound by means of body movement, New York, 1932
Slide29: Lev Theremin’s automatic door opening system
Slide30: Audio delay line, based on heating (1960-s)
Slide32: Military research at Moscow
State Conservatory, 1940-s
Slide33: Poet Alexei Gastev (right), founder of the Central Institute of Labour, 1922 and psychologist Nikolai Bernshtein (left) with Maxim Gorki (center).
Slide35: Nikolay Bernshtein’s biomechanics
Slide44: Nikolai Bernshtein’s live Kimo-cyclograms of the swimming sportsmen.
Different styles.
Slide45: The concept of Alive Motion
Slide46: Composer
Aeseny Avraamov
Slide50: Ultruchromatic music - 96 (48) steps per octave
Slide51: One key of the Bow-Polychord (1916) The instrument for Ultrachromatic Music (the kind of microtonal music) 48 steps/octave
Slide52: Symphony of Sirens 1921-1923 Bacu / Moscow
Slide54: Symphony of Sirens, part of the score
Slide55: The beginning of the Symphony of Sirens.
Parts of Sirens (top), motor-guns and cannons, used as a kind of percussion group.
Slide56: The basic setup of Moscow performance of Avrahamov’s
Symphony of Factory Sirens (1921-1923)
On the picture - alarm organ, including 50 steam alarms.
Conductor (Avraamov) - on the roof.
Slide57: Arseny Avrahamov conducting his Symphony of Sirens,
Moscow 1923
Slide59: “Shorinophone” - device to produce sound films, late 1920’s, Russia
Slide60: Basic principles how to produce sound tracks
Slide61: Evgeny Sholpo working with his VARIOPHONE - device to produce artificial sound tracks.
Slide62: First painted soundtracks
by Arseny Avrahamov
1930-1931
Slide63: Polyphonic sound track by Evgeny Sholpo, created on his
VARIOPHON instrument in 1931-1934
Slide64: Nikolay Voinov working with his paper-sound technique (1931-1933)
Slide65: Nikolay Voinov’s NIVOTONE instrument
Slide66: Loading of the variophone disk into the optical system
Slide67: Variophone cardboard disks with the basic wave shapes
Slide68: Painted polyphonic soundtrack
Slide69: Boris Yankovsky soundtracks,
created on his VIBROEXPONATOR in 1931-1936
Slide70: Basic principles of the Vibroexponator operation
Slide71: Basic principles of the Vibroexponator operation
Slide72: Explanation of the additive synthesis
and resynthesis of the syntones
Slide73: Boris Yankovsky explanations of the additive and formant synthesis, 1932-1936, Moscow
Slide74: Boris Yankovsky soundtracks of violin and speech sounds
Slide75: Boris Yankovsky synthesis of speech sounds and sounds of brass wind instruments
Slide76: Boris Yankovsky explanation syntones - spectral mutations from early 1930-s
Slide77: Boris Yankovsky explanation of his syntones - spectral mutations from early 1930-s
Slide78: Boris Yankovsky explanation of his syntones - spectral mutations from early 1930-s
Slide79: AudioSculpt (IRCAM, 90-s)
The software for spectral analysis and
spectral transformations:
Spectral mutations and cross-synthesys MetaSynth (90-s)
The software for spectral analysis,
Synthesis, resynthesis and various
spectral transformations
Slide80: Inventor Evgeny Murzin and ANS Synthesizer (development started in 1936, finished in 1958, Moscow)
Slide81: Big version of the ANS Synthesizer (1962)
720 sine oscilators 72 steps/octav
Graphical score
Slide82: Composers, working with ANS synthesizer in 1968 (left to right):
Eduard Artemiev, Alfred Schnitke, Alexander Nemtin, Edison Denisov.
Sitting: Oleg Buloshkin, Sofia Goubaidulina, Stanislav Kreichi
Slide83: The operation principle of electro-optical ANS Synthesizer
Slide84: ANS
Optical disc - oscillator (144 sine sound tracks)
and example of the graphical score - sonogram
Slide85: Composer Stanislav Kreich working with ANS, late 1990-s, Moscow
Slide86: The document of the State Committee for Radio-electronics and Ministry of Culture, 1962.
Special commission of experts, including Lev Theremin, Andrei Volodiv, Evgeny Murzin etc. make a decision to support further development of ANS synthesizer.
Slide88: Contact information: Andrei Smirnov
Theremin Center for Electroacoustic Music at Moscow State Conservatory
Address: Bolshaya Nikitskaya 13 Moscow, 235871, Russia
Phone: (495) 629-7678
E-mail: asmir@theremin.ru
Web: http://asmir.theremin.ru
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