Lev Theremin: Alien in a Sandbox
A. Smirnov.

One can easily find all sort of information about him in the Web, in numerous articles published on almost all languages, many exciting myths, lots of wrong dates and bad mistakes. Freelance artist and musician, physicist and inventor, businessman and spy, prisoner and KGB expert, biologist, psychologist, expert on hypnosis, irresponsible experimenter, absent-minded professor, uneducated technician, great patriot, traitor of the Motherland, poor pensioner, rich millionaire, the beggar etc.
I am not sure he was much interested in people. I don’t know did he really understand any political or social regulations and relations. Like the alien-child playing in a sandbox on a global playground, building, investigating and destroying this artificial world of sand, occupied by toys and insects, living in fragile sand fortresses. He was definitely a citizen of the world, but which particular world? Reading his writings and interviews one always feel the gap between him and the world of humans. His approach was global. Theremin was not really interested in details. He wanted to find out all basic relationships and fundamental laws, conducting the system we call “the World”. He wanted to investigate and take under control phenomena of life and death.
W ho was Lev Theremin? What was he? My personal opinion – Lev Theremin was a conspired Alien...

Transmediale parcours 1. Conspire. Berlin 2008.