Valerio Saggini, Author at Theremin Vox

Valerio Saggini

Valerio is a long time theremin lover. When he's not busy chasing ether-waves, he enjoys making music with computers and synthesizers, writing, and designing t-shirts.

Theremin Samples, Tvox Library

Sweep

By Valerio Saggini - June 5, 2005March 27, 2020

Steven HastenSweep

These are the only sound files I have of the RCA Theremin. They were done to demonstrate the range as it was with the oscillators restored to specs. I later changed the frequencies of the pitch and reference oscillators to restore playing range.

You can hear spurious oscillations we call “birdies”as the sweep nears the point at which the oscillator locks up and then starts again as we go downscale.

In the second verse of my lousy rendition of “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” You can hear birdies as I get dangerously close to that cutoff point.

The files are a bit noisy but the actual theremin sound was clean. I am sorry for the quality of these recordings. The purpose in making them was to demonstrate my progress as I got her in line.

Steven Hasten 5/18/2005

Pamelia Kurstin

By Valerio Saggini - June 3, 2005April 3, 2020

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Mini biography of Pamelia Kurstin, a world-renowned Thereminist based in New York.

Eri Participates in Two Moog Events

By Valerio Saggini - March 28, 2005March 31, 2020

Live performances and talk show in Tokyo. 1) THE MOOG DAY TOKYOhttp://www.theremin.org/2005/moog/moogday.html Live Performer:ERI / ThereminHideki Matsutake / Modular Synthesizer It is competing of MoogIIIC and Etherwave Pro.moog IIIc”Complete version of modular synthesizer used with Yellow Magic Orchestra” On Saturday, April 2, 2005 Time: 13:00-18:00Entrance is free. 2) Moog Movie and ERI Concert/TalkShowhttp://www.theremin.org/2005/moog/moogday.html Eri does […]

Risveglio di una Città

By Valerio Saggini - March 23, 2004June 25, 2020

Luigi RussoloRisveglio di una Città

A sample of a rebuilt Intonarumori from the only surviving fragment of “Risveglio di una città” by Luigi Russolo.

Eri II: Making People Happy with the Theremin

By Valerio Saggini - February 21, 2004March 29, 2020

Japanese theremin player Eri Li with the Etherwave Pro Theremin

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Feb

An interview with Japanese singer and thereminist Eri Ii. Eri II is a Japanese singer and thereminist. She received classical voice training from Masako Ueno (who studied with Mario Del Monaco) and, more recently, she began to learn the theremin. We’ve had the luck to listen to her charming theremin playing thanks to her uploads […]

Intonarumori

By Valerio Saggini - February 21, 2004June 25, 2020

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The Intonarumori were a family musical instruments invented in 1913 by italian futurist painter and musical composer Luigi Russolo. They were acoustic noise generators that permitted to create and control in dynamic and pitch several different types of noises. The Intonarumori were a family musical instruments invented in 1913 by italian futurist painter and musical composer Luigi […]

In a Monastery Garden

By Valerio Saggini - February 8, 2004March 26, 2020

Lennington H. ShewellIn a Monastery Garden

78 rpm RCA theremin recording (Victor 25130-B) digitized by Reid Welch for the “Levnet Compilation #2”.

Alexandra Stepanoff

By Valerio Saggini - February 7, 2004September 26, 2020

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A short biography of Léon Théremin’s first theremin student in the United States Alexandra Stepanoff. Alexandra Stepanoff was one of Léon Théremin’s first theremin students in the United States. Formerly a concert singer, around the late twenties, she moved from Russia to New York, where, thanks to the local Russian community, she met Léon Théremin. […]

Theremin Cello

By Valerio Saggini - February 7, 2004April 3, 2020

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Photographs of the original Theremincello preserved at the National Music Museum, The University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD. [Images courtesy of National Music Museum, The University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD.]

The Last Terpsitone on Earth

By Valerio Saggini - February 3, 2004March 31, 2020

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Lydia Kavina owns the only surviving Terpsitone in the world: it was built for her by Léon Théremin in 1978. Some photographs and information about this instrument.