The theremin wasn't used in hard rock often. But when it did make an appearance, it complemented the genre well.

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 ...

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Of all the musical instruments created over time, the theremin is certainly one of the most intriguing. It almost seems like magic the way the device reacts to moving hands closer and farther away ...

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 ...

2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the Theremin. It was way back in 1920 that Lev Sergeyevich Termen, better known as Leon Theremin in the west, first demonstrated one of the most important ...

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 ...

Talking about the "magic of music" is a timeworn cliché that places a patina of mystique upon the fairly straightforward creative process of practicing a lot to get good at something. The theremin, ...

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 ...