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History and Design of Russian Electro-musical Instrument "Theremin"

Electro-musical instrument Theremin, developed by the Russian physicist L. Theremin, has passed a long way in its evolution. It evokes constantly growing interest of audio-engineers and performers. Theremin is used both for performing musical compositions of different genres and for making special effects in theatrical performances, multimedia, film industry. In the presented work the analysis of circuit technique solutions has been done created during more than 80 years period both on the basis of analogous circuit technique and digital microprocessor technique, and realizations of Theremin as real and virtual musical instruments. Also advantages and disadvantages of different circuit technique solutions have been analyzed and most interesting realizations of virtual Theremin are presented.

Author: Vasilyev, Yurii
Affiliation: Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications
AES Convention:120 (May 2006) Paper Number:6672 Import into BibTeX
Session Subject:Analysis and Synthesis of Sound; Mobile Phone Audio; Automobile Audio

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