Analog music instruments were rendered largely outdated by the 1960s, anachronistic just as the advent of electronics fundamentally changed what music could be virtually overnight. With the creation ...

It's been a full century since Leon Theremin created the electronic instrument bearing his name, and to celebrate Moog is releasing what must surely be the best-looking (and may be the best-sounding) ...

You know that sound that makes the hair stand up on the back of you neck? That “watch out because the alien’s huge, slimy tentacles are slithering closer and closer” sound? Lots of classic 1950s ...

2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the Theremin. It was way back in 1920 that Lev Sergeyevich Termen, better known as Leon Theremin in the west, first demonstrated one of the most important ...

"Theremin Hero," a video game in which amateur musicians play a toy version of the strange electronic instrument, akin to "Guitar Hero," may be an idea whose time will never come. Developed by a ...

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Thereminist Carolina Eyck, to the conductor's left, plays "Sirens: A Concerto for Theremin and Orchestra" with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, as composer Dalit Warshaw watches, following the ...

Of all the musical instruments created over time, the theremin is certainly one of the most intriguing. It almost seems like magic the way the device reacts to moving hands closer and farther away ...

My younger son has taken violin lessons since he was little, but he doesn't practice as much as I'd like. "Is there another instrument you'd like better?" I once asked him. His answer: "I guess a ...

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 ...

(Original Caption) Photo shows the "Theremin," one of the first electronic musical instruments, invented by professor Theremin, a Russian scientist from Leningrad. Photo shows the invention as it ...