The Genius Who Invented Theremin

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  • Опубликовано: 14 дек 2024

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  • @generic716
    @generic716 2 года назад +1004

    I saw this in the deutsches museum. It was honestly mind blowing

  • @SirTwigger
    @SirTwigger 2 года назад +1524

    I love how everyone before the 1980’s named everything after themselves

    • @captainsmolletkermit8986
      @captainsmolletkermit8986 2 года назад +162

      What are you talking about people still do that all the time

    • @JackBobsonOfficial
      @JackBobsonOfficial 2 года назад +42

      Me when Moog, Roger Linn and Dave Smith

    • @dkwhattouseasusername1012
      @dkwhattouseasusername1012 2 года назад +55

      Not really, they don't name it themselves, others do, and usually because it's shorter than the original name or so I heard

    • @drm.himself
      @drm.himself 2 года назад +18

      Well if you do that then your name lives on forever

    • @mattpassos5689
      @mattpassos5689 2 года назад +13

      @@captainsmolletkermit8986 name 6 examples, cuz apple could’ve been Jobs and Microsoft could have been Gates, even Walmart is named after a guy but only half a name and half mart

  • @Russian_OrkZ
    @Russian_OrkZ Год назад +42

    У Термена была весьма нелёгкая судьба: он был гениальным изобретателем, создал новаторский музыкальный инструмент, системы сигнализации. После поездки в США в 20-30е годы, был арестован "за сотрудничество с буржуазной страной ", хотя в фирме, которую он создал в Америке, будучи гражданином СССР, потом работали советские разведчики. Во время заключения его перевели в "шарашку" где он создал знаменитый "Златоуст", помещённый в большую печать США, и провисевший там семь лет, всё время записывающий разговоры американских политиков. Был реабилитирован в 1954 году и получил Сталинскую премию 1 степени. Потом работал в МГУ, но во многом остался забыт в своей стране. В честь него в Москве основали "Термен центр", для музыкантов электронной музыки. Репрессии настигли его в разгар борьбы с нацистскими шпионами, поэтому были причины его подозревать, хотя реальной вины на нем не было

    • @ЕгорЛосев-ф4м
      @ЕгорЛосев-ф4м Год назад

      СССР был конченным государством "с ног до головы", который карал и репрессировал лучших людей страны. Очень жаль, что у гениального Льва Термена сложилась такая судьба.

    • @nanven
      @nanven 17 дней назад +1

      Довольно занимательно, спасибо за дополнение!

  • @tusharnagula6969
    @tusharnagula6969 2 года назад +223

    Imagine how intellectually stimulating the Special Jail would be.

    • @AckzaTV
      @AckzaTV 8 месяцев назад +12

      Lol not at all...the scientists were doing slave labor. Wasn't fun. You think they all hung out and talked about science? They were breaking rocks for canals lol jk I'm sure they did different work

    • @haruhisuzumiya6650
      @haruhisuzumiya6650 6 месяцев назад +3

      NKVD run gulag too, Stalin's personal suite

    • @haruhisuzumiya6650
      @haruhisuzumiya6650 6 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@AckzaTVthey were busy scheming up Soviet engines for aeroplanes and other technologies

    • @spaghettimcmeatballs7489
      @spaghettimcmeatballs7489 Месяц назад

      I bet they smoked weed together and talked about spacd

  • @stevoplex
    @stevoplex 2 года назад +213

    Good vibrations

    • @c0de509
      @c0de509 2 года назад +3

      Underrated comment lmao 🤣🤣🤣

    • @georggrech5924
      @georggrech5924 2 года назад +7

      @@c0de509 I don't think it was meant to be a joke lol. Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys features an Electro-Theremin

    • @c0de509
      @c0de509 2 года назад +1

      @@georggrech5924 oh aight. I didn't know that

    • @Kuraaku_desu
      @Kuraaku_desu Год назад +1

      That's what she said.

    • @Puppy_Puppington
      @Puppy_Puppington 5 месяцев назад

      Star Trek theme >

  • @raidriar2768
    @raidriar2768 2 года назад +40

    Bro allowed Ben 10 intro to exist

  • @peanutbutterboi8489
    @peanutbutterboi8489 2 года назад +143

    When I was in wind ensemble in high school my band directors brother built one and we used it in one of our performances, shit was sick

  • @thisaccountnameiscompletel8949
    @thisaccountnameiscompletel8949 2 года назад +30

    Lord Huron, who play “Night We Met” actually have one of these, which they play live.
    One of the strangest but most incredible musical performances I’ve seen

  • @salazarkennethgabrielb.6013
    @salazarkennethgabrielb.6013 2 года назад +233

    The video loop is smooth as hell.

  • @mcguckin13
    @mcguckin13 2 года назад +2

    "Despite him being a Soviet Industrial Espionage..."
    That sentence makes no sense, nor does it accumulate any context from the loop restarting.
    Please, police your work.

  • @belgianfried
    @belgianfried 2 года назад +309

    Finally someone who says Soviet and not Russian.

    • @stationVgames
      @stationVgames 2 года назад +18

      I mean...it really depends...if its 1990's then Russian...if its 1980's and below then Soviet

    • @hugo57k91
      @hugo57k91 2 года назад +8

      @@stationVgames ok but he was purged, that happened sometime around the 1920's 30's and 40's

    • @belgianfried
      @belgianfried 2 года назад +5

      @@stationVgames After 1990 it's Russian and whatever was left of the USSR. Before 1990 it's still Soviet.

    • @belgianfried
      @belgianfried 2 года назад +1

      @@hugo57k91 average before 1945 experience

    • @carkawalakhatulistiwa
      @carkawalakhatulistiwa 2 года назад +9

      @@belgianfried before 1920 is Russia Empire

  • @1893Mauser
    @1893Mauser 2 года назад +13

    I get the same thing over am radio when I drive past a gas station.

    • @Sumschmuck
      @Sumschmuck 2 года назад +1

      It's a Soviet owned gas station

  • @scronx
    @scronx 2 года назад +1

    Wow, I'm a musician and have always been a theremin fan but had no idea of this stuff!

  • @wealllikeitsomilkit4301
    @wealllikeitsomilkit4301 2 года назад +102

    "A special prison for scientist in siberia" just say it . Its the gulag innit

    • @azmanabdula
      @azmanabdula 2 года назад +11

      A special gulag for scientists

    • @proudfirebrand3946
      @proudfirebrand3946 2 года назад +7

      @@azmanabdula probably a Sharashka If he accepted the offer to get better conditions than being stuck in a Gulag labor camp...

    • @proudfirebrand3946
      @proudfirebrand3946 2 года назад +5

      Probably got sent to a sharashka after being in the gulag, If he accepted the offer for better conditions in exchange for his knowledge in his field of expertise to be devoted to the Commissariat working for them..

    • @azmanabdula
      @azmanabdula 2 года назад +4

      @@proudfirebrand3946
      Whats the difference?
      Instead of daily beatings you get nightly floggings?

    • @proudfirebrand3946
      @proudfirebrand3946 2 года назад +2

      @@azmanabdula I'm not sure on the details, but probably there are still punishments but probably not as severe as in the Gulags, you probably also get your own bed and room and decent enough food in comparison to a worker in the gulag..

  • @Imaxe__l
    @Imaxe__l 2 года назад +3

    Someone brought a Theremin to my school

  • @Agent4077
    @Agent4077 2 года назад +2

    there's a therimin in Wolfenstein 2 New Colossus that one of the commanders is playing

  • @GodlikeIridium
    @GodlikeIridium 2 года назад +6

    There's a french guy making cool live music with a theremin, he's called Mezerg.

    • @studiogimli7645
      @studiogimli7645 Год назад

      ​@Mike-lx9qncalling an instrument less than 100 years old ancient while insulting someone for being shallow is funny lol

  • @andrewmoreno9414
    @andrewmoreno9414 2 года назад

    COOL VIBRATIONS!

  • @Hadeshinai1
    @Hadeshinai1 Год назад +1

    Check out Carolina Eyck if y'all into theremin, her pieces and covers are so gracious

  • @estebangutierrez8587
    @estebangutierrez8587 Год назад +1

    Simplemente, el que invento este instrumento es un genio

  • @rydyly1734
    @rydyly1734 2 года назад +4

    They literally put just a small metal piece inside the plaque. Had the girl scout equivalents bring it to the American consulate. Then spied on them by way of radioing in through to the plaque.

  • @timmycrw91
    @timmycrw91 2 года назад +2

    I am pretty sure that Jimmy page used something like this to make some of the sound effects for some of Led Zeppelin’s songs.

  • @billdoolinofficial
    @billdoolinofficial 2 года назад

    I found few perfect loops on yt shorts today...wow. this is a one.

  • @GlitchedBlox
    @GlitchedBlox 2 года назад +1

    Star Trek sounds

    • @davidmurphy2903
      @davidmurphy2903 10 месяцев назад

      RUclips Midsomer Murders theremin theme

  • @ClanCoimbra
    @ClanCoimbra Год назад

    not sound waves but electromagnetic waves!

  • @umkm2k
    @umkm2k 2 года назад

    As a huge Portishead fan, thanks buddy.

  • @THOMAS_GREEN1
    @THOMAS_GREEN1 7 месяцев назад

    The sound at the start gave me flashbacks to school hearing tests

  • @rachelkoiks
    @rachelkoiks Месяц назад

    Ah. And now we use rfid in stores to track goods. It’s usually within the tag. There’s usually a symbol if it’s there. Makes counting stock easy especially if you’re a warehouse type.

  • @insane_in_da_membrane_
    @insane_in_da_membrane_ 2 года назад

    i was tappin on the green lightbulb 😅

  • @FishHeadsIV
    @FishHeadsIV 2 года назад

    So the theremin works on sound waves being interrupted? Would a hecs suit prevent you from being detected by a theremin?

  • @melaniestarkey7868
    @melaniestarkey7868 2 года назад

    It's funny how he knew what an alien type sound sounds like

  • @johnwentz9103
    @johnwentz9103 2 года назад +2

    JIMMY PAGE!!!!!

  • @thatguy-jl4ni
    @thatguy-jl4ni 2 года назад

    Jimmy Page uses one of those in the song remains the same movie. Nice

  • @Matthew_Dinner
    @Matthew_Dinner 2 года назад +1

    Just like many of the boys out there - getting played without ever being touched 🥲

  • @Mr.k7979
    @Mr.k7979 2 года назад +4

    Love how u put jack black when u explain lol

  • @bartman898
    @bartman898 2 года назад

    I play the piano everyday and don't touch it.....Well, I tell my mom I play the piano everyday.

  • @angelcitystudio
    @angelcitystudio 28 дней назад

    Nothing has changed. Intelligent people are persecuted.

  • @xcytd4diys894
    @xcytd4diys894 2 года назад +3

    It's the Loop 4 me!!

  • @thorstmixx
    @thorstmixx 2 года назад

    As a librarian, I use RFID every day! Very interesting.

  • @colleenshaw1607
    @colleenshaw1607 2 года назад

    Rfid is the reason i have a job. I work help desk for people working remotely

  • @Eduardo_Espinoza
    @Eduardo_Espinoza 2 года назад +2

    So he made a bugging device for the soviets?

  • @tuvoca825
    @tuvoca825 2 года назад

    Star Trek music!

  • @haruhisuzumiya6650
    @haruhisuzumiya6650 6 месяцев назад

    I wonder if Nikola Tesla played music with electromagnetic radiation

  • @CraigOgamus
    @CraigOgamus 11 месяцев назад

    And with this….we have mind control…..wow

  • @WalkingRoscoe
    @WalkingRoscoe Год назад

    Ralph Fiennes will play him. He will win an Oscar, but no one will have had the time to watch a 4-hour movie.

  • @drdca8263
    @drdca8263 11 дней назад

    You say it was to detect proximity by sound waves? Are you sure about that? That sounds off to me. I would think that it would use like, electromagnetic impedance or capacitance or something like that?

  • @paulwestmoreland8498
    @paulwestmoreland8498 Год назад

    Jimmy Page used one with Zeppelin

  • @IberianCraftsman
    @IberianCraftsman 2 года назад +1

    a jail for scientists...

  • @grantedvalson9641
    @grantedvalson9641 2 года назад

    The original air guitarist

  • @maybenotross5772
    @maybenotross5772 Год назад

    How tf did I learn about this just now.

  • @rexjolles
    @rexjolles 2 года назад +2

    I got to play one once, it sounded terrible

  • @edwardsflores6110
    @edwardsflores6110 2 года назад +1

    Why does it look like Tony Stark's dad?

  • @Henry_Kimler
    @Henry_Kimler 9 дней назад

    Fortunately his name was not Dostoprimychalovsky.

  • @АлександрПануш
    @АлександрПануш 2 года назад

    Make Amerika great again!

  • @fossil6235
    @fossil6235 2 года назад +2

    Don’t ever use my ringtone as the background sound effect again.

  • @feellucky271
    @feellucky271 2 года назад +10

    Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin made good use of Leon Theramins device.

    • @stevoplex
      @stevoplex 2 года назад +1

      So did the Beach Boys and Tangerine Dream.

    • @JDIZZY024
      @JDIZZY024 2 года назад

      It's in modern music to

  • @nathan9901
    @nathan9901 2 года назад +8

    WOW that loop. i didn't even realize

  • @Alex-vl7ji
    @Alex-vl7ji Месяц назад

    Can this be coupled with tesla coils

  • @Starving_indev
    @Starving_indev 11 месяцев назад

    Well, actually, this is a bit incorrect
    Theremin indead got sent to political camps, but not for the development of the musical instrument
    His musical instrument got him quite a recognition from the Soviets, but later he emigrated to the US, where he pattented the Theremin, which is most likely the reason he was called back to the USSR and got sentenced to the 8 years political camps

  • @samivestlund
    @samivestlund 4 месяца назад

    there’s probably gonna be like some facebook mom like “nuh uh it was invented by an american in the 80s! catherine said so!”

  • @averagefunnyguy9655
    @averagefunnyguy9655 2 года назад

    I saw this in The big bang theory show

  • @ahmadsuwadeh_tv7871
    @ahmadsuwadeh_tv7871 2 года назад +1

    So crazy

  • @ElBrunno12
    @ElBrunno12 11 месяцев назад

    Argentina mentioned (?

  • @youtubeuser1993
    @youtubeuser1993 2 года назад

    lol he was sent to a gulag for inventing the theramin

  • @KidJV
    @KidJV 2 года назад

    sheldon brought me here

  • @OctagonalSquare
    @OctagonalSquare 2 года назад

    Weird that our credit cards and phones use tech invented by the dude who most would know for making an instrument

  • @ALaughingMan
    @ALaughingMan 2 года назад

    The ringing in this video is annoying

  • @davidmurphy2903
    @davidmurphy2903 10 месяцев назад

    Midsomer Murders says thank you.

  • @hi-lb9xj
    @hi-lb9xj Год назад

    Why does nobody talk about the inventors last name and the instruments name are the same

  • @leonjohnsonjr3331
    @leonjohnsonjr3331 2 года назад

    Leon was my cousin

  • @comradeblin256
    @comradeblin256 2 года назад

    Stalin= I SAID MAKE PROXIMITY FUZE, NOT MUSICAL INSTRUMENT!

  • @stevebunes9151
    @stevebunes9151 2 года назад

    I find myself wondering if English is a second language for the author or did they simply fail their English courses in high school

  • @roberthouse4817
    @roberthouse4817 2 года назад

    Video looping like this is just annoying.

  • @BurnerAddress95
    @BurnerAddress95 Год назад

    Despite HIM being!? AN espionage!?!?!! Good golly Moses…where of Hell doesed your learning an ENGLISH!?!?

  • @brynjaraamfuglestad
    @brynjaraamfuglestad 2 года назад

    The Soviet Union was fascist after Lenin died

  • @vitanovision
    @vitanovision Год назад

    Tesla

  • @lindylou7853
    @lindylou7853 Год назад

    Dr Who?

  • @matthewanderson7824
    @matthewanderson7824 2 года назад +2

    The use of this in outer wilds was great I could tell it was a theremin before I even knew it actually was

  • @user-bc6ug7rj1g
    @user-bc6ug7rj1g 2 года назад +7

    I made a huge leap in tech!
    Yer going to jail....
    Wtf???

    • @prathamkalgutkar7538
      @prathamkalgutkar7538 2 года назад +2

      Many were arrested to secure nations Intellectual force especially when you consider he have earlier went o US and Returned back

  • @MotiMota15
    @MotiMota15 2 года назад

    Shtuby anyone?

  • @M-M666
    @M-M666 Год назад

    Его изобрел русский🎉

  • @Iam_Qachal
    @Iam_Qachal 2 года назад

    Stalin☕

  • @oblivionx14x94
    @oblivionx14x94 2 года назад +2

    You can see Myrtle from AHS play that unique instrument

  • @WilburJaywright
    @WilburJaywright 2 года назад +4

    Hold up, RFID isn’t a bug technology. It’s for identification and tracking. A plaque sitting in a known office isn’t going to help much in that regard. I call fowl.

    • @ChaosDarkie
      @ChaosDarkie 2 года назад +2

      Actually you're wrong, the plaque is called "The Thing" and it needed electromagnetic energy from an outside source to become energized and active. That's why it's considered a predecessor of RFID.

  • @OverlordViciousKiwi
    @OverlordViciousKiwi 2 года назад

    Ween

  • @sergisota5794
    @sergisota5794 2 года назад +4

    Its always the russians i swear to god 💀

    • @cuyohistoriador2858
      @cuyohistoriador2858 2 года назад +6

      Only in Eurasia they kill their own geniuses after they invent something

    • @belgianfried
      @belgianfried 2 года назад +1

      Soviets*

  • @Ward178
    @Ward178 2 года назад +4

    Soviets were cruel am I right

    • @prathamkalgutkar7538
      @prathamkalgutkar7538 2 года назад

      No, He went to US then Returned upon which he was arrested and sent to Labour Camps for Scientist, where he and other great Soviet Scientists worked untill he was rehabilitated. The Soviet system was Heavily infiltrated by Political and Nazi Germany Allying Enemies and the Arrests were made to secure the nations Intellectual force

    • @belgianfried
      @belgianfried 2 года назад

      Are you 7?

    • @Ward178
      @Ward178 2 года назад

      @@belgianfried no???

  • @Cragmortis
    @Cragmortis 2 года назад

    Booooweeeeeeeooooooowoooooooweeeeeeeoooooo

  • @PUNCHLER
    @PUNCHLER 2 года назад +1

    Technically he is making “physical” contact with the instrument

    • @aaronmazur8056
      @aaronmazur8056 2 года назад +2

      Explain. He's holding nothing in his hands

    • @kiberh7171
      @kiberh7171 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@aaronmazur8056Literally physical contact, but in a different sense, the player affects the electromagnetic waves that the instrument forms, changing the pitch, roughly speaking

  • @feellucky271
    @feellucky271 2 года назад +1

    I know Jimmy Page is glad for Leon's device.

  • @NikodAnimations
    @NikodAnimations Месяц назад

    200th comment

  • @feellucky271
    @feellucky271 2 года назад +1

    Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin made good use out of Leo Theramins instrument.

  • @i20coyote85
    @i20coyote85 2 года назад

    "special prison" meaning awful gulags

    • @MsThePrettiest
      @MsThePrettiest 2 года назад

      No, meaning prison with labs where scientiests can work. Conditions were better I guess, because goverment needed them alive

  • @nicolascorbeil9263
    @nicolascorbeil9263 2 года назад

    You can't touch a vst synth and it's a musical instrument

  • @typhoon1oon
    @typhoon1oon 2 года назад

    This is y the ussr failed

  • @wombit
    @wombit 2 года назад

    ''special prison for scientists in siberia''
    really trying to avoid saying deathcamp, are we?

  • @Soulxxxreaper
    @Soulxxxreaper 2 года назад +1

    “..Only musical instrument controlled entirely without physical.”
    uhh what about singing??

  • @mbh5360
    @mbh5360 Год назад

    Dude looks like tesla

  • @pietsmiff3564
    @pietsmiff3564 2 года назад

    His name was Lev, not Leon.