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 ...
Dalit Warshaw has perfect pitch. That means she can identify the note – a B-flat, or an F-natural, etc. – of any church bell or birdsong that's passing by in the air. Also called absolute pitch, it's ...
Theremin player Barbara Buchholz demonstrates the electronic instrument. (Photo by Gregor Hohenberg - Courtesy of Barbara Buchholz) Have you heard of the theremin? Best known for producing ...
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 ...
HAMAMATSU, Japan It was a sight fit for an episode of the Twilight Zone: Dressed in black formal wear, a crowd of musicians filed into a concert hall west of Tokyo and sit down to play. But instead of ...
WILKES-BARRE — Two pianos with three hands and a theremin. Without context, the phrase sounds more like the activity at a music store rummage sale than the instrumental lineup of an improvisational ...
The traditional theremin is more or less an audio oscillator with two metal rods. Using proximity sensing, one rod controls the pitch of the oscillator and the other controls the volume. [Teodor ...