Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Click here to read the full article on SPIN. Analog music instruments were rendered largely outdated by the 1960s, anachronistic ...

You know that sound that makes the hair stand up on the back of you neck? That “watch out because the alien’s huge, slimy tentacles are slithering closer and closer” sound? Lots of classic 1950s ...

It wouldn’t be October without Halloween, and it wouldn’t be Halloween without some spooky music. There’s no instrument spookier than a Theremin, which also happens to be one of the world’s first ...

Memphis audiences this week will have two opportunities to hear and see Kate Tayler Hunt and her theremin in action.

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 ...

When the Houston Ballet opens its season on Sept. 6, with "The Little Mermaid", there will be an unusual instrument in the orchestra pit. The theremin, which famed music critic Harold C. Schonberg ...

The theremin was invented as a Soviet science experiment, and later used as a tool for industrial espionage. Despite its origins, Hollywood embraced the electronic instrument in the 1950s. The ...

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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 ...

The sound it produces is beautiful, unsettling, haunting and unmistakable … resembling, as one critic famously said, "a cello lost in a dense fog, crying because it does not know how to get home." He ...

Even if you're not familiar with the musical instrument called the theremin, chances are you've heard its ghostly sound. It's featured in "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin, as well as some of the ...

My younger son has taken violin lessons since he was little, but he doesn't practice as much as I'd like. "Is there another instrument you'd like better?" I once asked him. His answer: "I guess a ...