In a darkened movie theater, a spaceship hovers high on the big screen. Eerie music wafts in like ectoplasm filling a room. It’s strange and foreboding, like the sound of a disembodied voice, a ...
Dalit Warshaw has perfect pitch. That means she can identify the note – a B-flat, or an F-natural, etc. – of any church bell or birdsong that's passing by in the air. Also called absolute pitch, it's ...
WILKES-BARRE — Two pianos with three hands and a theremin. Without context, the phrase sounds more like the activity at a music store rummage sale than the instrumental lineup of an improvisational ...
The Audiophiliac's remarkable encounter with newly created versions of the first electronic instrument, the theremin; space-age sounds abound! Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also ...
Theremin player Barbara Buchholz demonstrates the electronic instrument. (Photo by Gregor Hohenberg - Courtesy of Barbara Buchholz) Have you heard of the theremin? Best known for producing ...
HAMAMATSU, Japan It was a sight fit for an episode of the Twilight Zone: Dressed in black formal wear, a crowd of musicians filed into a concert hall west of Tokyo and sit down to play. But instead of ...
Thereminist Carolina Eyck, to the conductor's left, plays "Sirens: A Concerto for Theremin and Orchestra" with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, as composer Dalit Warshaw watches, following the ...
Editor’s note: Allan Maurer is a contributor to WRAL TechWire and is one of its cofounders. ASHEVILLE – Moog Music, which builds its instruments in Asheville, is updating the instrument that inspired ...
The Battle Creek Symphony is set to kick off its 2025-26 season with a spooky twist. The symphony's "Spooky Symphony" concert is scheduled for Oct. 11, according to a community announcement. Tickets ...