Andrey Smirnov

Andrey Smirnov (RS) is an interdisciplinary artist, independent curator, collector, writer and composer. He is a researcher and senior lecturer at the Centre for Electroacoustic Music at Moscow State Conservatory, and a lecturer at the Rodchenko School for Modern Photography and Multimedia. He founded the Theremin Center in Moscow and was the director for two decades. He has conducted research on teh development of electronic music techniques and gestural interfaces since 1976, and he is the author of the book Sound In Z: Experiments In Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th Century Russia (2013).