AETHERPHON, global theremin family

No posts??? Is everyone on vacation?

Philip

It's a dry spell I guess, things have quieted down at TW too.
Seems to happen every year about two or three times in cycles,
have never been able to figure out why.

But today is Bob Moog's birthday,
I'm so glad he happened.
His synthesizers changed my life early on,
and later his theremins totally changed it again.

Have a great weekend, hope everyone gets in some theremin playing!

all the best,
- John


On 5/23/08, kmg5443 <kmg5443@...> wrote:
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> Philip
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-- 
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John Hoge, NYC
"Absolutely dedicated to the propagation
and continuation of the Theremin."
www.hoge-theremin.com
and also check out
www.ThereminWorld.com


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Quoting kmg5443 <kmg5443@...>:
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I'm here, have been busy, however not as busy with the theremin as I  
would like.  I'm desparately trying to catch up with non-theremin  
things and will be about 2-3 weeks before I am back on track.

I will attend and perform at the electro-music festival in August 14-16:

http://electro-music.com/article.php?t=25566

I will perform works that I have written in the last year -- I also  
will compose a new work to premier at the festival.  The new work will  
be a live-looping work around 7 minutes long.

The last six months have found me in the throes of family emergencies  
-- one after another -- and this has cut into my studio/practice time.  
  I had to shelve my cd project and some other projects have  
languished.  This has really been painful however I hope to be in a  
position to pick things up this summer.

Last fall I participated in a project by Amin Bhatia and the CD,  
entitled, "Virtuality" is being released today.  The CD includes  
Ravel's "Bolero" that features fifty years of electronic instruments  
(it starts with vintage analog modular synths and progresses through  
60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and current technology in the course of the work.   
It includes the Ondes Martinot (played by Thomas Bloch), the theremin  
(played by me), and a plethora of vintage synthesizers.  The booklet  
that comes with the CD includes a timeline of all the instruments used  
and features liner notes by Mark Vail (you may be familiar with Mark's  
book on 'Vintage Synthesizers').

The Ethermusic festival was a great success and there is a video  
report on it from "Electronic Musician":

http://emusician.com/videos/events/ethermusic08/

OK... that's the latest from here.

A great day to one and all!

-- Kevin

I'm around, just lurking these days. Been working on finishing up my Masters. Yesterday I was an unemployed library student, today I'm an unemloyed librarian. Now I can spend time practicing again I haven't touched, errr, not touched a theremin in the last six months. The only music I've been playing was bass with my working bands.
   
   
  Andy

kkissinger@... wrote:
          Quoting kmg5443 <kmg5443@...>:
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> No posts??? Is everyone on vacation?
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> Philip
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I'm here, have been busy, however not as busy with the theremin as I 
would like. I'm desparately trying to catch up with non-theremin 
things and will be about 2-3 weeks before I am back on track.

I will attend and perform at the electro-music festival in August 14-16:

http://electro-music.com/article.php?t=25566

I will perform works that I have written in the last year -- I also 
will compose a new work to premier at the festival. The new work will 
be a live-looping work around 7 minutes long.

The last six months have found me in the throes of family emergencies 
-- one after another -- and this has cut into my studio/practice time. 
I had to shelve my cd project and some other projects have 
languished. This has really been painful however I hope to be in a 
position to pick things up this summer.

Last fall I participated in a project by Amin Bhatia and the CD, 
entitled, "Virtuality" is being released today. The CD includes 
Ravel's "Bolero" that features fifty years of electronic instruments 
(it starts with vintage analog modular synths and progresses through 
60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and current technology in the course of the work. 
It includes the Ondes Martinot (played by Thomas Bloch), the theremin 
(played by me), and a plethora of vintage synthesizers. The booklet 
that comes with the CD includes a timeline of all the instruments used 
and features liner notes by Mark Vail (you may be familiar with Mark's 
book on 'Vintage Synthesizers').

The Ethermusic festival was a great success and there is a video 
report on it from "Electronic Musician":

http://emusician.com/videos/events/ethermusic08/

OK... that's the latest from here.

A great day to one and all!

-- Kevin



                           


"he was a theremin virtuosa and a good monkey"   I.M. Weasel

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Naw, just preoccupied with the end of the quarter at school.

Not that I'm a big talker anyway.... :-)


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DAVID VESEL -- synthetic music for humans
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Spellbound, a brief program of music for theremin
Sunday 10PM-12AM http://spellbound.purplenote.com

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Hey there,

I'm looking for new music for Spellbound.  If you haven't chatted with 
me lately about music, drop me a line at davidv@... .  I 
think all of my broken e-mail stuff is working now.  And I'm still 
looking for full-quality videos (no YouTube, please) for the 
ever-upcoming video podcast series.  So far I have videos from Barbara 
Buchholz, Eliot Fintushel, Thomas Grillo, Rupert Chappelle, and Mark 
Wetzel; and I've been promised videos coming from Beat Frequency (Gordon 
Charlton) and ElectroMungo (Arthur Pelzmann), and word has it Gordon has 
some videos from Aileen and Alexander Thomas.  I do have quite a few 
YouTube videos, but I only want to use them as a last resort.

So if you've been holding out on me, please relent and contact me! :-)

Speaking of new music, two major releases are coming in the next month. 
  On May 29, Lydia Kavina's 2nd release on Mode Records -- her first 
solo studio album in nine years -- hits the streets, titled 
"Spellbound".  (A coincidence?  ;-)  This is her 4th album, following 
her 1999 debut, "Music From the Ether: Original Works for Theremin" on 
Mode, her 2000 live album "Concerto por Theremin: Live from Italy" on 
Italy's Teleura label, and her duet album with Barbara Buchholz, "Touch! 
Don't Touch!" from 2006 on Germany's WERGO label.

And speaking of Barbara, I just got word from her that her new album, 
"Moonstruck", arrives on June 6 on Germany's Intuition Music label.  Her 
first solo album since her 2003 debut, "Theremin: Russia With Love".

Also new out, if you haven't picked up the official eponymous debut 
release of Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel, you need to.  It's mostly 
different than their 2006 demo album, and so is even more and better 
ambient performances.

Only problem is, I seem to have lost my CD. :-(  That's the 3rd CD I've 
lost in the last year.  There is also "Moooon Moooosic" by the Man From 
Uranus and a custom collection from japaneseCARCRASH lurking in some 
dark recess of my house somewhere.  Where on earth do they go?!?

It's odd....I've misplaced more theremin music than most people own. ;-)

David V


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DAVID VESEL -- synthetic music for humans
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Spellbound, a brief program of music for theremin
Sunday 10PM-12AM http://spellbound.purplenote.com

My things, including my theremin, are due to arrive in
New Zealand on Monday. So I've been dealing with
customs and MAF and paying fees.

The move was supposed to take 6 weeks but instead it
took 3 months. That's a long time to be separated from
your instruments!

Looking forward to getting my toys out to play again
soon. 

Peace

C




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

> Naw, just preoccupied with the end of the quarter at
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> Spellbound, a brief program of music for theremin
> Sunday 10PM-12AM http://spellbound.purplenote.com
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David

I'm trying to get the technical part of recording something for 
Spellbound out of the way. The quality just isn't there, sound-wise, 
for some reason. I've got a decent microphone, but I think the sampling 
rate or some other adjustment isn't quite right.

Philip

For your master recording, make sure you're encoding with 24 bit 96kHz 
sampling.  That should be good enough for any target audio format.

For the Internet, 128kbps fixed-rate MP3 or higher, or VBR100 MP3 are 
your best bets.

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DAVID VESEL -- synthetic music for humans
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Spellbound, a brief program of music for theremin
Sunday 10PM-12AM http://spellbound.purplenote.com

kmg5443 wrote:

> David
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> I'm trying to get the technical part of recording something for 
> Spellbound out of the way. The quality just isn't there, sound-wise, 
> for some reason. I've got a decent microphone, but I think the sampling 
> rate or some other adjustment isn't quite right.
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> Philip
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