Word: theremin
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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Utilizing the principles of science, Theremin believes to have solved some of the most important problems of the modern art of music...
...Jazz is characteristic of America", said Leon Theremin; Russian scientist, professor in the Physico-Technical Institute of Leningrad, Russia, and inventor of the ether-wave music instrument. "Jazz is very interesting. It has had an influence on music and I believe that in the future it will have a greater influence, especially from the standpoint of new soundings...
Professor Theremin's remarks were made to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday following his Symphony Hall concert, through his secretary who interpreted...
Inside the box were electro-magnetic fields, actuated (through radio vacuum tubes) by an electric current that alternated at stupendously rapid frequencies. The alternations, as is the case with radio broadcasting waves, were too rapid for human ears to hear. But Professor Theremin, as anyone can do with a heterodyne radio receiving set, put one series of his electro-magnet waves against another series and thereby deadened a sufficient number of the millions of waves speeding silently through the box each second to leave few enough oscillations for audibility. (The highest number of waves that the ordinary human...
Professor Theremin's apparatus can be played as a musical instrument. Nonetheless it is yet a scientific toy, just as another device, interpreting sounds as light waves and shown to the curious throughout the U. S. a few years ago, was a toy. And as the inventors of that sound-color machine toured the U. S. exposition halls, so Professor Theremin's associates plan to take him and his box on tour...