“Splendid Sonority and Vivid Expressiveness”: The Theremin before Sci-Fi
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- Tuesday, 19 February 2019
The instrument has a reputation as an oddball, by virtue of its unusual method of playing without touch (players control pitch and volume by moving their arms in proximity to two antennae), its notoriously slippery chromatic sound, and its association with all things alien and strange.