{"id":33447,"date":"2013-12-25T00:40:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T00:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-a-similar-spirit-leon-theremin-famous-as-the\/"},"modified":"2013-12-25T00:40:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T00:40:24","slug":"in-a-similar-spirit-leon-theremin-famous-as-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-a-similar-spirit-leon-theremin-famous-as-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In a similar spirit Leon Theremin, famous as the inventor and namesake of one of the first electronic instruments, undertook pioneering work on live concert visuals as part of a series of experiments aimed at improving viewers\u2019 sensory perception thresholds. In 1923 he created a gesture-controlled multicolored light called the Illumovox, later teaming up with Albert Einstein in what we can only hope was the first ever VJ duo, showing test subjects geometrical figures accompanied by music.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/authors\/mcswiggen-colin\" title=\"Colin McSwiggen\">Colin Mcswiggen<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/red-noise\">Red Noise<\/a>\u00a0for n+1, reviewing\u00a0<em>Sound in Z<\/em>, a book covering experimental music in the early Soviet Union. (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/notes.husk.org\/\">blech<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a similar spirit Leon Theremin, famous as the inventor and namesake of one of the first electronic instruments, undertook pioneering work on live concert visuals as part of a series of experiments aimed at improving viewers\u2019 sensory perception thresholds. In 1923 he created a gesture-controlled multicolored light called the Illumovox, later teaming up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-33447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8Ht","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}