Andrei Smirnov (1956) 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.
 
He has conducted various workshops and master classes in the U.S.,
Europe and Russia, attended numerous festivals and conferences. He
teaches various courses on history of electroacoustic music and
multimedia, sound design and composition, new musical interfaces and
sensor technology, introductory digital audio signal processing and
sound synthesis, acoustics and psychoacoustics at the Theremin Center
(Moscow), Moscow University for Psychology and Education, Pro Arte
Institute (St.Petersburg).
 
Smirnov has also developed many contemporary interpretations of Leon
Theremin's classic electronic musical instrument, the most recent of
which is a digital Theremin sensor which uses an Arduino interface to
communicate data from the Theremin sensors to software such as Pure Data
and SuperCollider.
 
> http://asmir.theremin.ru/
 
Appearances:
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