![[✍] My dream synths ♫♬](http://www.etherstrings.ru/wp-content/themes/lensa/functions/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2015/01/wishlist-collage-600.jpg&w=620&h=&zc=1&q=90)
On the picture above: Moog Theremini + AlphaSphere + Minimoog Voyager. Moog Theremini (top row, left) is the first theremin in the history of electronic music that combines the traditional non-contact method of playing with the
![[✍] Leonardo da Vinci’s Viola Organista](http://www.etherstrings.ru/wp-content/themes/lensa/functions/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2015/01/viola-organista-600.jpg&w=620&h=&zc=1&q=90)
This unusual instrument, a cello/piano hybrid invented by Leonardo da Vinci, finally gained material form – after more than 500 years after its invention! It happened thanks to Slawomir Zubrzycki, a Polish pianist who
![[✍] Photos from RCM Museum of Music](http://www.etherstrings.ru/wp-content/themes/lensa/functions/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2015/01/royal_college_of_music_800w.jpg&w=620&h=&zc=1&q=90)
I hope one day I will find time to thoroughly inspect photos and videos I took in London. I mean, of course I have looked through them at least once and showed some of them
![[✍] NAMM Musikmesse Russia 2013 (photos)](http://www.etherstrings.ru/wp-content/themes/lensa/functions/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2015/01/NAMM-MM-Russia-2013-notes.jpg&w=620&h=&zc=1&q=90)
Last year’s debut of NAMM Musikmesse Russia looked really promising. Just a year passed, it’s May 2013 (same dates, actually), but I’ve got an impression that the trade fair is running out of steam.
![[✍] Tools of the trade](http://www.etherstrings.ru/wp-content/themes/lensa/functions/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2015/01/animoog_ipad_resave.jpg&w=620&h=&zc=1&q=90)
My tools of the trade: audio + MIDI sequencer: Logic Pro 9; DMC application for online music collaboration (Digital Musician Container); software synths: Arturia (Minimoog V etc.), Native Instruments (Massive etc.); hardware synths: Roland JP-8000, Korg Prophecy, theremins; iPad
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Following up upon my article, “Theremin, ’20s: time of dreamers [1]”, here is a fragment from the RCA brochure, “The Victor Theremin” (published about 1930). An absolutely new unique musical instrument anyone can play. Not a radio. Not
While I am waiting for Moog Etherwave to arrive from the US, and I have time to relax after a recent concert at the Crocus Expo, I want to write a little bit about