Leon Theremin’s Rhythmicon played by Andrei Smirnov | Loop
Andrey Smirnov is a Russian researcher, interdisciplinary artist, writer, composer and the founding director of the Theremin Center in Moscow. At Ableton Loop 2017 he demonstrated what is widely considered the world’s first drum machine, the Rhythmicon.
In 1930, the avant-garde American composer and musical theorist Henry Cowell collaborated with Russian inventor Léon Theremin in designing and building the remarkably innovative Rhythmicon. Cowell wanted an instrument with which to play compositions involving multiple rhythmic patterns impossible for one person to perform simultaneously on acoustic keyboard or percussion instruments.
The invention, completed by Theremin in 1931, can produce up to sixteen different rhythms—a periodic base rhythm on a selected fundamental pitch and fifteen progressively more rapid rhythms, each associated with one of the ascending notes of the fundamental pitch’s overtone series. Like the overtone series itself, the rhythms follow an arithmetic progression,
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