Plenty of bands from the 1960s changed the way we experienced music. From The Beatles’ revolutionary way of producing pop music to the genre-broadening guitar stylings of Jimi Hendrix, plenty of 1960s ...
The Rolling Stones’ dip into psychedelia, Their Satanic Majesties Request, is a wild ride from start to finish. There’s an element of futurism found on this hard rock record, too, which called for the ...
One hundred years ago — when urban architecture was straining skyward, the radio was becoming a household item, and great strides were being made in aviation technology — Russian physicist Lev ...
Ninety years ago this month a young Russian scientist and inventor, Leon Theremin, was summoned to the Kremlin to meet Lenin. It was the start of an incredible journey that laid the foundations for ...
The ethereal, pure sounds created by the electronic musical instrument echo the voice, but are controlled by the movements of the thereminist’s hands One night almost 10 years ago, I heard an ...
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The Soviet-era electronic instrument is often used as an exotic novelty, but the Icelandic musician unleashes its real potential In the century since Leon Theremin invented his eponymous instrument – ...
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 ...