AETHERPHON, global theremin family

Wow, I have a new person's music to check out! :-)  Welcome Gordon!

I think everyone knows me, or at least knows OF me.  I'm David, and like 
Gordon I do not claim to be a thereminist, yet.  (But Gordon did a 
lovely job organizing the Happy Birthday Theremin World project!)  I am 
an electropop recording musician of minor stature, however, and I've 
been involved in radio since the late '80s.  When Internet radio came on 
the rise this decade, I jumped in because, darnit, I have the radio bug.

So most of you know me for my Internet radio efforts, especially 
Spellbound, a brief program of music for theremin.  I am a happy 
promoter of the instrument, and hopefully once my electropop album is 
done, I can begin a regular practice regimen.  I own a Big Briar 
etherwave standard, and I also have an Alesis airFX, which is a gestural 
controller that uses infrared optics rather than the capacitance field 
typical of the theremin.

I live in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, and in accordance with city 
ordinance, am a lifelong Cardinals baseball fan. :-)  Once Albert Pujols 
finishes his career, people worldwide will be saying, "Barry who?"  I'm 
married, my wife is Ann, and I have two children, Eric who is 6 and 
Maggie who is 2.  They occasionally make "unscheduled guest appearances" 
on my radio programs.  I teach at ITT Technical Institute here in the 
suburb of Arnold.  Mostly web development but also courses in 
multimedia, security, programming, database design, and system 
administration; on both the Associate and Bachelor degree levels.  I 
have a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Bradley 
University and a Master of Education degree in Educational Technology. 
I hope to begin pursuing a PhD in Information Technology soon.

One of my upcoming projects this fall is to assemble a charity CD 
compilation to benefit the National Association for Autism Research. 
Eric is autistic, and that condition is front and center in our daily 
lives.  Fortunately, he is a very bright boy and much more affectionate 
than most autistic children, and he can speak enough to make his wants 
and desires known.  But I know children who are far worse off than Eric, 
who are incapable of affection or speech or any sort of personal 
connection.  Nobody knows what causes it (though consipiracy theories 
abound) and so a benefit project aimed at research seems the most 
pragmatic course of action.

Oh, and I like to talk about myself, so consider yourselves warned.

So who else is here? :-)


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DAVID VESEL -- synthetic music for humans
http://davidv.purplenote.com
porphyrous@...
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The Purple Note Radio Network:
Escape From Noise, vocal electronica, 10PM Sats http://efn.purplenote.com
Spellbound, music for theremin, 11PM Suns http://spellbound.purplenote.com
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Gordon Charlton wrote:
> Great, postings already! I love chatty little mailing lists. (Would  
> prefer a private forum, but, like, whatever...)
> 
> I don't see a membership list on the yahoo web pages, and I'm curious  
> to know who I'm talking to, so what say we have a thread where  
> everyone can put a bit of a profile. If we stick to the same subject  
> line it'll be easy for new members to find them in the archives.
> 
> So, as I'm a notorious early revealer, I'll set the ball rolling.  
> (One or two of you may have heard this before - sorry for the  
> repetition.)
> 
> First up, I'm kind of here under false pretences. David set this up  
> for theremin players - I don't so much play it as play *with* it. For  
> an extensive and rambling description of what I consider play, check  
> out the Gordon's Progress thread on the TW forums, here ( http:// 
> www.thereminworld.com/forum.asp?cmd=p&T=1420&F=557 )
> 
> The short version is - I play with my theremin for therapeutic  
> reasons (I have ME aka CFS - no sympathy required, I am not a victim)  
> - my primary interest is carving weird little things out of bits and  
> bytes on my iBook (21st century basket weaving, if you like) and  
> sharing them via the web, because I can. The theremin (I have a Kees)  
> is one of my data-capture devices of choice. Another is my digital  
> camera. You can see some of the results on the forums of another of  
> my favourite podcasts - Industrial Radio. Here. ( http:// 
> industrialradio.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=24&forum=5 )
> 
> So why the theremin? After all, I am the classic description of the  
> wrong person - no musical training whatsoever, can't sing in tune or  
> keep a simple rhythm, no previous experience of any instrument (well  
> - apart from learning the piano as a kid - apparently I had something  
> of an aptitude, but then we moved house and never followed it up.)
> 
> I went for the theremin because it's the woo-woo machine from 50's  
> sci-fi. And also because I had no preconceptions of how it should be  
> played or what sort of music I wanted to make with it. Is it any  
> good? Don't know, don't particularly care - I do it to please myself,  
> and it pleases me, so that's good enough. Maybe it is OK - I take the  
> same attitude with my photography, and win competitions at my local  
> camera club regularly so some of the judges must quite like them.
> 
> If you're curious as to the end results, you can find them here as  
> mp3s here, ( http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm? 
> bandID=475314 ) or here ( with funny little videos on Veoh, here.  
> ( http://www.veoh.com/seriesDetails.html?s=s2683 )
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> Why did I sign up for the list? I'm here to learn, pure and simple.  
> This music stuff is a confusing business and the opportunity to hang  
> out with proper musicians can only do me good. Mind you, I have this  
> idea that a good way to learn is by teaching, so if you catch me  
> offering ill-informed suggestions, it is indeed because I probably  
> don't know what I am talking about, and would be very grateful for  
> being set straight.
> 
> My musical tastes. My car radio is tuned to either BBC Radio 1 or BBC  
> Radio 3 in equal amounts (pop charts and serious classical  
> respectively.) My record/CD/mp3 collection basically dates from when  
> I was 15 in 1977, and is mostly stuff that didn't get radio play and  
> with an amateur/DIY/no-training-required ethos to it - so it includes  
> Brian Eno, The Residents, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Pere Ubu,  
> Wire, Captain Beefheart and Public Image Limited. Music podcasts -  
> one whose name eludes me :-) and Industrial Radio as previously  
> mentioned because I enjoy absolutely everything they play, and a  
> couple of others out of respect because they used some of my music  
> (and talked all over it, enthusing about theremins, which was nice in  
> a humbling sort of way.)
> 
> Finally I notice a few names from my little Happy Birthday escapade.  
> Hi guys!
> 
> 
> Gordon Charlton
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> PS Also I occasionally write far too much!
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