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This immersive portrait of Peter Theremin, the great-grandson of the ThereminVOX's Creator and Director of the Russian Theremin School, was held at the Tivoli Theatre in Barcelona(1*). It is the seventh Musical Drift within the practice of the archive that the collective Nascimento/Lovera performed for almost two decades.

In this commissioned art work by Layers of Reality, draw a transversal timeline of the year 1919 which is plotted in the context of Russia, Spain and Venezuela.

Peter Theremin executes a musical variation of the artists on the Mikhail Glinka´s theme Skylark, father of the Russian musical nationalism. This dark and martial version inspired also by 1919 venezuelan historical circumstances (*2) in which the cultural movement “Renovación” was developed and where composer Vicente Emilio Sojo was a determinant figure for the rescuing of the national legacy in the academic field.

In 1919´s Russia, during one of the most violent years on which raised the Soviet empire, the inventor Lev Sergeyevich Theremin creates the first electronic musical instrument: the ThereminVOX, a paradoxical artifact in itself by being played without being touched.

Lenin was impressed during the demonstration of the device performed in his office. The potential of converting the instrument into an icon of the revolution, which has its mottos the electrification of the country, will promote the development of the project with the intention of its massive production. Skylark was one of the pieces interpreted for the occasion and at the end of the recital, Lenin asks Theremin to teach him to execute the theme with the complex instrument. The musician accesses and manipulates the hands of the dictator for several minutes, until he himself controls the device thanks to his musical skills.

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