Music and Gesture: Sensor Technologies in Interactive Music and the Theremin based Space Control Systems

This work attempts to give the brief overview of some of the most important, but partially forgotten biomechanical concepts based on the techniques to measure body movement of workers, athletes and musicians, developed in Russia in 20-s. These experimental works and their results are very useful now to study musical performance from the point of view of the development of Interactive Music Systems, based on different approaches to measure the human body movement and to create different Gestural Interfaces to control the musical performance. Mainly the work will be focused on the concept of Alive Motion developed by Russian psychologist Nikolai Bernstein.