Clara Rockmore. Apparently she was a virtuoso of the theremin. Pretty amazing stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSzTPGlNa5U
Clara Rockmore. Apparently she was a virtuoso of the theremin. Pretty amazing stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSzTPGlNa5U
Clara is/was the heroine of theremin fans everywhere.
Nels Cline plays some very theremin-like lines on one of the tunes on the latest Wilco album.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
The theremin on "Good Vibrations" always gave me an uneasy feeling as a kid. It's definitely a cool sound though. Great video.
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Whole Lotta Love.
BTW, I have a theremin app on my iPhone!
That was really beautiful! She makes it a true instrument, not just a bizarre novelty.
s'all goof.
Thats amazing. I love anything with a "proximity" sensor like on a ZVEX Wah probe. So cool.
I keep meaning to buy one of those. I would prefer an Ondes Martenot but apparently those are a little hard to come by, even if you're Johnny Greenwood.
I just played one, a Moog Etherwave, for the first time the other day in a music store down the road. The guys working there were a little apprehesive about plugging it into an amp, they wanted me to use headphones. After a good 10 minutes of trying to get a major scale out of the thing I could see why!
Nels Cline does play some tasty licks on #2 or #3, I think that's on lap steel? Very theremin-like.
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From the live YouTube clips, you're right. It's reminiscent of old Disney soundtrack material.Originally Posted by boobtube21
Here's the song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0KYThmBJ5I
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
Is that Henry the eighth?
I've seen old footage of the Beach Boys doing "Good Vibrations,"
Mike Love played something that looked like that, rather than the antenna type Clara played, and Page used.
That piece Clara played was amazing.
Is her theremin made of rosewood, by any chance?
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
Yeah, it's got a warmer tone than maple.
In watching Brian Wilson's SMiLE concert on DVD, I noticed they didn't use a theremin for their rendition of "Good Vibrations." The guy playing that part had a homemade wooden gadget with a slider and some magic-marker lines to show where the different notes of that phrase were. I assume the slider was attached to a synthesizer's pitch wheel. I guess that was easier than learning to play the theremin or hiring a theremin player for one song.
A ribbon controller. Not that uncommon on 70's modular synths. I think PIAA used to sell one, among other companies.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
Interesting. Is that like a touch-sensitive kinda thing?
No, I think it's essentially a big linear potentiometer - like a giant open mixer fader, with a removable wiper. Low tech, 70's technology.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
Ah, okay. The 1970s...when the most sophisticated touch-sensitive device was a table lamp. (I wonder whatever happened to those. When I was a kid, I thought they were the coolest thing ever.)
Here's the Beach Boys, in '66(?).
I was a little off, as there's no keyboard on the one Mike Love's playing. And he's sliding with what could be a PDA stylus.
Then there's this one. The super slim version.
(And Carl's playing a Tele)
Maybe he's some kind of theremin gearhead.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
I'd like to have seen Jimi Hendrix play one of those. He would have mastered it. Could you imagine--so many people would be playing the theremin today.
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
That looks hard, singing that part of the chorus while playing that theremin line.
Yeah, and some big company would threaten legal action against boutique builders who make really nice theremins, because the rectangle is too similar.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
Yeah, it's got a warmer tone than maple.
Cool Vid's, I still remember the first time I heard WLL and asked my old man "What was that?!?!?!" the first thing he did was whistle the part from GV and then explained what a theremin was. Very cool Stuff!
RIP Lacey Cat 1992-2009
Theremin?
Look up The Lothars and Pamelia Kurstin.
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Tone is in the fingers, eh? Let's hear your Vox, Marshall and Fender fingerings then...
The old analog ones are just fine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6nv0iDrAis
Ha ha Wilko, how's this clusterfuck:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFEnv...eature=related
I imagine a theremin convention would sound about the same.
I used one of the Hiwatt Theremins when we recorded Formosa Rectangle. It's really hard to control I used it basically as a noise generator but it has a built in adjustable delay that adds a lot to the sound.
VM
If aliens listened to our current top 40, they'd think that the entire planet was populated by sexually ambivalent robots with ethnic insecurity.
That sorta sounds like a tornado. I guess they picked the right song, eh?
Wild!
That woman in the center of the screen at the beginning looks like she's studied Jimmy Page's bow technique.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
zzzzzzzzzzzz.............
Uh...is that a comment on the saw players, theremins, or this thread?
take yer pick. Must be a slow news day.
CT.
Must be a really slow day for you if you had the time to post a comment on a thread you find so boring.
As a matter of fact it is slow for me today. You are in deed astute Sir! I try to keep it light.
Let me put it in terms you can understand. If I take the time to enter a thread, click on a Youtube, and its boring, I reserve the right to say so,,,just like you, or anyone else for that matter. After all, if you don't have an opinion, then why have a disscussion board in the first place?? Carry on.
CT.
I think it's great to have an opinion and post it. Discussion's what it's all about. You're right.
I just don't think "zzzzzzzzzzzz.............
Which is really kinda insulting, not just to the person who started the thread, but to everyone who took the time to post another video, discuss the subject, or make any other kind of constructive comment.
I've just never gotten that. It's like walking across a crowded floor at a party and stepping into the middle of a group of people just to declare that whatever they're talking about is not worth your time. If you find an entire thread boring, why bother taking the time to tell everyone in the thread that you find it boring? What's the point? Why not just move on to something you do find interesting (you know, like a thread whose subject line doesn't say it's about theremin music)?
Or do you imagine you're helping us all improve the content of the board? That, next time someone's about to start a new thread, they'll stop and think "Wait -- several people seemed to enjoy the last thread I started, but CocoTone called it 'zzzzzzzzzzzz.............
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Shit here we go again. pc's gonna run outta padlocks pretty soon here.
Sounds like your checking up on me. I am flattered that you find each and everything i post interesting.
I think i made myslef quite clear!!! If I walk up to a group having a disscussion, I would listen a bit first, before I made a statement. I think your just trolling for my ass is all.
One thing is a fersure,,,this thread is staring to get interesting.
CT.
Not as much as you might think.
yer sharp as a tac bro!
CT.
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