Comments on: Look, don't touch

Look, don't touch

Blazecock Pileon — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:09:54 -0800

Classical hits on the Theremin: Thomas Grillo performs Rachmaninoff's Vocalise, and the inimitable Clara Rockmore plays Cassado's Requiebros and Saint-Saëns The Swan.

By: wendell

wendell — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:24:47 -0800

Supplying 100% of your Minimum Daily Adult Requirement of Theremin!

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:30:19 -0800

Don't worry be happy.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:53:32 -0800

Yay! Here's a chance to link to this Theremin instruction video again! (It went out with the last deleted theremin post, but I think it'll be of interest to those who want to know exactly what's going on when a theremin is played. Or to those people who like to see classically dorky-looking guys with really bad neckties.)

By: rkent

rkent — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:06:33 -0800

Gnarles Barkley's "Crazy". Kind of sounds like a real vocalist who just doesn't know how to close his mouth.

By: Astragalus

Astragalus — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:05:57 -0800

Are all thereminists required to keep that eerie stoic gaze when playing? All of them seem to do it. Here's another sublime rendition of The Swan by Masami Takeuchi, and this is a somewhat bizzarre chorus of Matryoshka Theremins led by the master again.

By: arialblack

arialblack — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:43:06 -0800

Theremin giving a theremin lesson

By: sarahnade

sarahnade — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:52:33 -0800

Clara Rockmore's performances are hauntingly beautiful. I've heard of theremins, but never actually saw one being played in that way, that was cool. BrotherCaine and rkent, your videos feature the same guy. Clearly he's gotten a LOT better over the past year.

By: spock

spock — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:09:44 -0800

Don't forget to search for the Theremin version of "Video Killed the Radio Star".

By: fandango_matt

fandango_matt — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:19:31 -0800

Here!

By: porpoise

porpoise — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:22:57 -0800

I'm getting tired of Theremin this and Theremin that... what about the Chapman Stick ?! second link goes to a formerly lost cut from David Lynch's Dune where Patrick Stewert [youtube] playing Gurney Halleck plays a "balliset"

By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:39:50 -0800

porpoise is right... can't Tony Levin get any love up in here?

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:40:06 -0800

In the interest of diversity after porpoises lament: mouth harp, hammered dulcimer, electric mandolin, electric oud, glass armonica, steel guitar and digeridoo, hydraulophone, improvised percussion, saw and jug.

By: Aloysius Bear

Aloysius Bear — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:19:12 -0800

Awesome! Thanks for this, BP.

By: howfar

howfar — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:38:30 -0800

It all seems to sound like a very serious round of "Swanee Kazoo". I suppose that's what you get for using an outmoded piece of technology that has long since passed any period of comprehensible use. And at the piano, Colin Sell.