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 ...

Strange it is. Stranger the workstyle. Strangest the name. The person you see in the picture above is not a magician. He is a thereminist, who assumes a magician-like veil, all thanks to the musical ...

Invented by accident in the 1920s, the unusual electronic instrument is hard to master but offers an enticing reward: freedom. Invented by accident in the 1920s, the unusual electronic instrument is ...

Carolina Eyck was given a theremin when she was seven. At 16, she revolutionised the method used to play the instrument. Credit: Ananda Costa The theremin is an instrument like no other, because it ...

The first time Carolina Eyck played a theremin in public, the 8-year-old turned the instrument on and her audience was treated to the sounds of a local radio station. Thankfully, 30 years later there ...

None of this applied, mind you, to seven-year-old Carolina Eyck, studying classical violin and piano in East Germany in the ’90s. The theremin in the loungeroom was just another gizmo Dad acquired for ...

A spectral pitch opens theremin-master Hekla’s latest album Turnar. Reverberating the ghostly wails of what once was, a loud, nerve-shaking sub-bass tilts the listener out of their comfort zone. It’s ...

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 ...

The Airwave is basically a tall stand with a camera on top. This camera points downward to track the player's finger movements on a connected MIDI keyboard. Movements are tracked in real time and ...

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