AETHERPHON, global theremin family

The mention of Cultural Amnesia - of which obscure unit I am a member
and the occasional thereminist - reminds me of another path to the
theremin for me. When the band was first active - back in the
industrial early 80s - I used to play the metal detector. 
This sounds very silly to most people, but will sound slightly less
silly to thereminists. 
The metal detector is the easier instrument, of course.

Thanks for the midi info.

Gerard



--- David V <porphyrous@...> wrote:


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I think my first encounter with the theremin was a vague recollection
of 
a M*A*S*H episode (which I am trying to relocate, BTW, to get a 
soundbite of it) where Hawkeye Pierce is bored and trying to engage 
everyone he encounters into a game of Scrabble, and he plays "theremin"

against Radar.

As for when I first began listening, it's also pretty vague.  Somewhere

along the line I was introduced to the idea and I began playing one 
theremin song a week on Escape From Noise, a recurring feature titled 
simply "the Theremin Song of the Week".  I can't remember how I got the

idea, but since EFN's playlist policy requires vocals, I'm pretty sure 
one of the first artists I played was Project: Pimento.  It's bugging
me 
now that I can't remember.

I'm pretty sure, though, that the first theremin track I possessed was 
"Probably Likely No" by Cultural Amnesia, but it took me over a year to

realize it was a theremin in the song.


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Gerard wrote:
> Well, I can understand David wanting to rename the list. Spellbound
is
> a wonderful name, though. But perhaps keep it for the radio show.
> Ethermail is clever, but I would think Theremin-L would be best from
> the simple point of view of making it immediately clear what the
group
> is about.
> 
> Two things... A possible fun thread: where did theremin players first
> encounter the theremin? Or what first turned them on to the
> instrument... I think in my case it would probably be the ?1969 film
> _Captain Nemo and the Underwater City_. Does anybody remember that? I
> don't think it's critically loved, but it was one of my favourites as
a
> child and I found the scene where the woman plays her
> golden-tree-type-theremin-thingie enchanting... spellbinding.
> 
> Secondly, on more mundane matters, how can I control the world with
my
> theremin? That is, can I get a midi converter for it? Mine is a
> Wavefront case model. In fact Wavefront (if he is still going) do a
> midi box for the theremin, but it's $600+.
> 
> Gerard xx 
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