As Wikipedia describes the theremin’s control: The instrument’s controlling section usually consists of two metal antennas that sense the relative position of the thereminist’s hands and control ...

It's been a full century since Leon Theremin created the electronic instrument bearing his name, and to celebrate Moog is releasing what must surely be the best-looking (and may be the best-sounding) ...

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When Kevin Lee built a theremin from a kit five years ago, it was the first time he’d ever touched one of the electronic instruments. And the last. OK, that’s what has to pass for theremin humor. See, ...

In 1994, after finishing a show at Lounge Ax in Chicago, I was taken by a friend to another club to check out Pere Ubu. As striking an experience as a Pere Ubu show can be, I was captivated by a guy ...

2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the Theremin. It was way back in 1920 that Lev Sergeyevich Termen, better known as Leon Theremin in the west, first demonstrated one of the most important ...

The Audiophiliac's remarkable encounter with newly created versions of the first electronic instrument, the theremin; space-age sounds abound! Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also ...

Long relegated to the world of sci-fi movie soundtracks, the world’s first electronic instrument, the Theremin, is making a comeback, appearing on tracks by artists like Sufjan Stevens, the ...

You know that sound that makes the hair stand up on the back of you neck? That “watch out because the alien’s huge, slimy tentacles are slithering closer and closer” sound? Lots of classic 1950s ...

The theremin is, for some reason, what people think of first when they think of electronic musical instruments. Maybe that’s because it was arguably the first purely electronic musical instrument, or ...

Of all the musical instruments created over time, the theremin is certainly one of the most intriguing. It almost seems like magic the way the device reacts to moving hands closer and farther away ...

It’s been a full century since Leon Theremin created the electronic instrument bearing his name, and to celebrate Moog is releasing what must surely be the best-looking (and may be the best-sounding) ...