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 http://theremin.ru