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Feb
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.
Valerio Saggini
Lucy Bigelow Rosen
Lucy Bigelow Rosen interview 1938 (restored)
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Bret Moreland’s audio restoration of the Lucie Bigelow Rosen recording (uploaded last year by Jessica Hummel) of her speaking in the East Indies. Bret used the source uploaded by Jessica Hummel on this website, and reduced the impulse noise, and continuous noise. Thanks Bret.
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Nov
Nov
An interview with canadian thereminist Peter Pringle. Peter Pringle is an eclectic musician, singer and songwriter from Canada. He became involved in music as a child singing with the children’s chorus of the Canadian Opera Company and studying classical piano. In the 1960’s he moved to the United States where he started a successful songwriting […]
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A flyer dating from the Thirties promoting russian thereminist Mischa Tulin.
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Oct
Troika Ranch is the name of a New York-based performers’ group founded in 1993 by Dawn Stoppiello, a dancer and a coreographer, and Mark Coniglio, a composer who develop works of what they call slash arts: dance + music + theatre + interactive media.
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Oct
An interview with musicologist Olivia Mattis about the return of the Theremin Cello. In his continual quest for instruments for his “organized sound,” Edgard Varèse experimented with different kinds of musical and non-musical devices. Since he believed in a strict collaboration between composers and scientists, he also approached various scientists and inventors like Luigi Russolo […]
Audio Library: Giorgio Necordi has uploaded a new MP3 sample to demonstrate the action of the waveform control on the sound of his transistor theremin.
A new file has been uploaded to the Audio Library. It is a sound sample of a new transistor theremin designed by Giorgio Necordi (Italy).To know more about this project read Giorgio’s article “Of the Theremin and Futurist Stringed Instrument Making” in the “Tech” section.
A new file has been uploaded in the Audio Library. It is “Rotors of Raga” by BrotherSync (Bryan Helm, David Miller and Bret Moreland). Here is a note from Bret: “This piece features Theremin by David Miller, Korg synths by Bryan Helm, Huey Helicopters and Moog synths by me. I have long loved the variety […]
BrotherSync
Rotors of Raga
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This piece features Theremin by David Miller, Korg synths by Bryan Helm, Huey Helicopters and Moog synths by me. I have long loved the variety of sounds that Hueys make. This piece is centered around a field recording of several Hueys flying, sometimes passing within 30 feet of my binaural microphones (on my head). This is not exactly a song, consider it a ‘sonic adventure’. Thanks to David Miller for collaborating with us on this with the haunting melody line he composed and played. (Bret Moreland)
