Subj : Re: 100th Anniversary of the Theremin
To   : Charles Pierson
From : August Abolins
Date : Tue Dec 08 2020 08:46:09


 > Original Article:

 > https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/theremin-centennial



 > Happy 100th Birthday to the Theremin, Instrument of the Future

The instrument and the creator are explored in the 2014 novel "Us Conductors"

From the book:

"I was Leon Termen before I was Dr Theremin, and before I was Leon, I was Lev
Sergeyvich. The instrument that is now known as a theremin could as easily have
been called a leon, a lyova, a sergeyvich. It could have been called a clara,
after its greatest player. Pash liked termenvox. He liked its connotations of
science and authority. But this name always made me laugh. Termenvox — the
voice of Termen. As if this device replicated my own voice. As if the
theremin's trembling soprano were the song of this scientist from Leningrad.

I laughed at this notion, and yet in a way I think I also believed it. Not that
the theremin emulated my voice, but that with it I gave voice to something. To
the invisible. To the ether. I, Lev Sergeyvich Termen, mouthpiece of the
universe."

More excerpt: https://www.edelweiss.plus/?sku=1935639811&g=4400

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Cover art [2]: https://www.bookmanager.com/i/m.php?b=CP4DNomx-HFc-OwV8ZC65A
Cover art [3]: https://www.bookmanager.com/i/m.php?b=ERwtpK2h44BDMBV2myhBjw
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