AETHERPHON, global theremin family

In this issue:
    * New Website!!!
    * NYC Show!!!
    * Other tidbits
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NEW WEBSITE!!!

In the seven months (!) since our last newsletter, The Lothars have 
completely revamped our website to make it easier to navigate and to 
add lots of nifty new features including:

    * Jukebox -- Now you can listen to nearly everything the The 
Lothars have recorded, including tracks from out of print CDs!
    * Videos -- watch the Lothars performing live and check out a 
clip from the DVD we've released with video artist Doctor T.
    * Improved Shopping Cart -- For all your theremin holiday shopping needs.
    * Blog -- It's still a work in progress, but it's there. If 
you're down with rss, you can subscribe to it and stay up on the 
latest news from The Lothars and our individual band members.
Plus some newish photos and press clippings, not to mention a new 
color scheme! All the action is at 
<http://www.wobblymusic.com/lothars/>http://www.wobblymusic.com/lothars/

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NYC SHOW!!!

The Lothars return to New York City for the first time in over seven years!

Next Tuesday night, December 5, at 8:30PM, The Lothars will be 
performing at the Galapagos Art Space, providing the soundtrack to 
the 1929 Soviet silent film "Man With a Movie Camera" ("Chelovek s 
kinoapparatom"). "Dziga Vertov's masterpiece is an application of 
'life as it is lived.' A cameraman travels around a city with a 
camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling 
inventiveness. This playful film is at once a documentary of a day in 
the life of the Soviet Union, a documentary of the filming of said 
documentary, and a depiction of an audience watching the film. Even 
the editing of the film is documented. It makes the cameraman the 
hero, and is one of the most dynamic experiments with montage; the 
film also uses trick photography, animation, slow motion and speeded-up shots."

The Lothars are a theremin-based improvisational ensemble which 
includes hammered dulcimer, log drum, electro-flute, prerecorded 
samples, and at least two theremins (a word not often seen in its 
plural form). What better soundtrack for a 1929 Soviet silent film 
than a band featuring an instrument invented 10 years earlier by a 
Soviet scientist? (*) It's a match made in Heaven! Or a Socialist 
Utopia, as the case may be....

The Lothars last performed their soundtrack to this film in June, 
2003, at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline, MA. Don't wait 
another 3 1/2 years for your next chance to experience this melange 
of sight and sound!

The Galapagos Art Space is at 70 N 6th Street in Williamsburg, 
Brooklyn. Tickets are $8. Visit 
<http://www.galapagosartspace.com>http://www.galapagosartspace.com 
for directions and other details.

[(*) When we sent a similar announcement to Levnet prior to our June, 
2003 performance, it seemed to ruffle the feathers of one list member 
who complained that our instrumentation was a "travesty" since "the 
theremin [was not] used in Soviet silent film music performance... 
There is no visual in Man With a Movie Camera that excuses the 
imposition of the sound of the theremin... commonly heard in 
performance during the 1929 period the film was released." To this we 
say, "ptttthhhhttt!" Rachmaninoff and Saint-Saens didn't compose for 
the theremin either; perhaps Clara Rockmore's choice of repertoire 
was equally a travesty?]

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OTHER TIDBITS

    * The Sandinista Project, a tribute to the Clash's Sandinista 
album that includes The Lothars interpretation of "The Call Up", is 
being released on March 27. More details at 
<http://guterman.com/sandinista/>http://guterman.com/sandinista/
    * The long out of print Lothars CD, "Connected" (the one that was 
reviewed in 
<http://www.wobblymusic.com/lothars/LotharsPress.php?press_id=PB0503>Playboy), 
will be reissued sometime in 2007 on Portland, Oregon's Strange 
Attractors Audio House label. Visit them at 
<http://www.strange-attractors.com/>http://www.strange-attractors.com/


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