Aunque el Festival Sonar ha centrado las energías de la semana pasada, hay un montón de actividades interesantes en Barcelona.

Durante estos días está celebrando un interesante taller de construcción de theremin en riereta.net por Andrei Smirnov, Director del Centro Theremin de Moscu:

THEREMIN-SENSOR CONSTRUCTION WORKSHOP at RIERETA (Barcelona)
Organized by A=V (Munich). Hosted by RIERETA & TELENOIKA in collaboration with HANGAR (Barcelona)
Led by ANDREY SMIRNOV (Theremin center. Moscow)

Andrey Smirnov (1956) is an independent researcher and developer of
electronic music techniques, with a particular interest in design and
development of both hardware and software sensor technology with complex
relationships between the performer’s actions and the interpretation of
this information in non-linear methods using custom software. He is an
interdisciplinary artist, composer, performer, instrument builder,
programmer, author, curator, educator. He is a founder and director of
the Theremin Center for Electroacoustic Music at Moscow State
Conservatory, member of Russian Association for Electroacoustic Music,
member of Electronic Music Foundation Advisory Council, director and
founder of Altermedium International Festival for Electroacoustic Music,
Moscow, founder and artistic director of Moscow Laptop Cyber Orchestra.
Since 1976 he is conducting independent research and developments of
electronic music techniques, gestural interfaces, hardware and software
sensor technology with particular interest in non-linear methods of
interpretation using custom hardware and software.

acompañada además de un seminario en la Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya:

Dijous 21 de juny del 2007
12:00
Aula 350, ESMUC
Seminari de Sonologia

Leon Theremin (1896-1993); Overview of main inventions; Invention of the
theremin – first commercialy available electronic musical instrument
(1919-1920); Music and Gesture: invention of the terpsitone (1932);
Operating principles of theremin and terpsitone; Body movement and
gestural control over sound; Leon Theremin’s eavesdropping systems and
the art of vibrations (since 1945); Theremin-sensors – most recent
applications of Leon Theremin’s inventions Operating principles and
practical applications.
+ Practical demonstration of the theremin-sensors.