Off: Theramin

[Colin J Allen]

Anton uses an AirSynth and an AirFX; quite effective pieces of kit and very
good for posing:).

Colin


----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Pearson" <jasret at MINDSPRING.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: Off: Theramin


> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:32:26 +0000, Neil Shilladay
> <neil.shilladay at MICROLISE.COM> wrote:
> >Did me eyes deceive me (I could just be stupid), but did list faves
Litmus
> >use some sort of optical theremin on their recent tour supporting Julian
> >Cope ?
> >I caught Litmus @ Wolverhampton, and the chap on the left of the stage
> >appeared to have some funky optically triggered thingamajig, that I took
> >to be a theremin.
>
> Of course, an actual theremin is electro-magnetic, not optical (sorry to
> split hairs), but I think that Litmus are using one of the Alesis "Air"
> units (AirSynth or AirFX), which are optical (IR, IIRC).  I'm at work, so
> I can't check the insert, but I'm pretty sure that one of those is visible
> in the photos with the 'You Are Here' CD.
>
> Incidentally, my piano teacher during my early teen years was an
> accomplished thereminist who had performed it at Carnegie Hall way back
> (she was a contemporary of the great Clara Rockmore).  She had one of the
> old RCA console-style tube theremins that I got to play a couple times.
> Leon Theremin's daughter is also a great player; I got to see her play the
> violin (or was it flute?) solo part of a concerto, with electronic
> instruments from the Stanford e.music department playing the orchestra
> part, about 15 years ago.  It was the first time that (the now late) mr.
> Theremin visited the US since being kidnapped from NYC by the KGB in the
> 20s!  Pamela Kurstin is a great contemporary Thereminist, if you want to
> check out someone current ...
>
>     -Doug
>      jasret at mindspring.com