Remember the theremin? Controlled using a performer's hand movements in mid-air, it's one of musical history's most fascinating instruments, lending its creepy tones to B-movie soundtracks, Led ...
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When the Houston Ballet opens its season on Sept. 6, with "The Little Mermaid", there will be an unusual instrument in the orchestra pit. The theremin, which famed music critic Harold C. Schonberg ...
In Manhattan last week alert listeners at a Philadelphia Orchestra concert noticed that in the Bach Toccata and Fuge the basses had a new, if perhaps unneeded, sonority and strength. They had ...
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Strictly speaking, a Theremin uses a pair of antennae that act as capacitors in a specific R/C circuit. Looking at [aritrakdebnath2003]’s MIDI THEREMIN, we see it works differently, but it does play ...
During Armen Ra’s last concert at the Gershwin Hotel, a concert audience sat transfixed at the sight onstage. Wearing heavy makeup and a simple black evening dress, the Armenian Mr. Ra stood in front ...
In a darkened movie theater, a spaceship hovers high on the big screen. Eerie music wafts in like ectoplasm filling a room. It’s strange and foreboding, like the sound of a disembodied voice, a ...
While we have nothing against other 1980s 8-bit machines, the Commodore 64 has always been something special. A case in point: another new instrument using the C-64 and its beloved SID chip. Not just ...
Caroline Scruggs remembers her mom handing her a violin when she was just 5 years old. That small gesture would set Scruggs on a lifelong course of musicianship, singing and songwriting — and playing ...
Instrument design is going down the toilet. Cementimental s Optical Theremin Loo fits a photosensitive noisemaker into a tiny plastic rendition of the Porcelain God; adjust the sound by moving the lid ...