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Very delightful to hear news of little Lucie, and details of her 
interactions with music, thanks.  :)

Lucie is charmed by rhythm!  What an interesting thing that is.  Rhythm 
plays a big part in our speech- it's a good thing to pay attention to.

One evening, after having just been to a poetry reading, I tried to 
imitate on the theremin the cadences of the poets that I had heard.  It 
didn't come off too well, but I was in a rush and doing other things and 
distracted.  I'm going to try that again one of these days.  B.B. King did 
fun imitations of speech on his guitar, theremin should be able to do it 
too.

Ann

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Jessica Hummel wrote:

> On 16 Nov 2006 at 10:25, Ann Cantelow wrote:
>
>>
>> We need to outfit little babies or small children with such
>> opportunities to affect their world.  With their pliable brains
>> looking for action, no telling what fine-tuned capabilities would
>> result.  I'm not averse to the Borg-like life, heh.
>>
>> Start the next gen of theremin players young!  :)
>
> Well, we are trying ;-)
>
> During pregnancy our Lucie's hands were waving constantly inside my womb. About two
> weeks before she was born Lucie already attended some concerts and a workshop by
> Lydia Kavina. And we put her before a croix-sonore when she was but a few weeks old,
> just to see what would happen. She didn't seem to mind.
>
> Now she's 4.5 months old, and instead of her hands her feet are waving.
> She seems to like it when Wilco plays theremin with fx. She doesn't care when he plays
> classical pieces or when I play children songs. She does like it when I play sounds and
> waver from high to low. She does like it when I move her body to and from the pitch
> antenna. She doesn't care about the theremin sound that she can make waving her feet.
>
> But what she really is crazy about are live human singing voices and rhythm. That gets
> her full attention and puts a very big smile on her face. Not to mention the comments she
> gives when a song/improvisation is finished.
> (So I hardly play the theremin anymore, but my percussion skills are improving...)
>
> As for smart outfits with all kind of electronics in them: babies can drool a lot!
>
>
> greetings,
> Jessica
>
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