Eavesdropping the Universe
A. Smirnov.

Art and politics, inspiration and defense often have the same origins and use the same tools for self realization and development. Many known inventors of art and music technology where involved in military and intelligence activities and research, balancing on a sharp “ blade” separating realms of creative energy and art from one hand and destruction and defense from another. What motivations did they have? What were their intentions?
Perhaps one of the most charismatic figures on a crossroad of art technology and espionage was Lev Theremin (1896-1993), well known as an inventor of the first electronic musical instrument Thereminvox. Similarly to medieval alchemist looking for Alchemical Gold and Philosophers' Stones , he wanted to find out the Sense and the Meaning of the fundamental laws, forming and conducting the system we call the Universe, which is filled by all sorts of vibrations – electromagnetic, mechanical, biological, acoustical etc., which are related to all sorts of mater. These vibrations, reflecting natural processes, are carriers of hidden meanings, similarly to the shortwave radio ether in sixties, which was filled with coded messages in numbers, phonetic letters, noises, transmitted by stations, related to numerous intelligence agencies. Anyone could receive these messages, nobody could deduce their destination or content...

RIXC. Espionage Technologies and Art. Second scientific edition. In preparation for publication