Electonic instrument. Usually used for funky sci-fi background music from the 1930s to 1960s, but sometimes still used today. I think it sets up an electo-magnetic field that you can alter by your hand positioning, which translates to notes that play out of the speaker.
Electonic instrument. Usually used for funky sci-fi background music from the 1930s to 1960s, but sometimes still used today. I think it sets up an electo-magnetic field that you can alter by your hand positioning, which translates to notes that play out of the speaker.
Electonic instrument. Usually used for funky sci-fi background music from the 1930s to 1960s, but sometimes still used today. I think it sets up an electo-magnetic field that you can alter by your hand positioning, which translates to notes that play out of the speaker.
As with Adolphe Sax and the saxophone, Lev Termin intended the theremin to be a Serious Concert Instrument, but it mainly ended up being a novelty. But where the sax eventually found its niche in jazz, the theremin was used mainly (as ithekro notes) in science fiction movies, where it provides the stereotypical eerie "wooooOOoOOOoOooo" sounds in, e.g., the score to THe Day the Earth Stood Still. At least one performer (the late Clara Rockmore) did make a name for herself with serious classical performances on the theremin, but it's a very difficult instrument to master, given the complete lack of any operator feedback other than the sound.
The NKVD promptly grabbed him, leaked the rumor that he had been executed as an enemy of the people, and put him to work in a slave-labor R&D laboratory (a thing so peculiar to the Gulag system that there was a specific Russian word for it, sharashka). While thus enslaved, he developed surveillance devices for the KGB, including one that enabled eavesdropping on the office of the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow for years. He was supposedly released in 1947, but since he had spent much of his time in the sharashka working personally for Beria, that seems unlikely to have been really true. Amazingly, though, he survived working personally for Beria; in fact, he outlived not only Beria but the USSR itself, and died in 1993, aged 97.
Electonic instrument. Usually used for funky sci-fi background music from the 1930s to 1960s, but sometimes still used today. I think it sets up an electo-magnetic field that you can alter by your hand positioning, which translates to notes that play out of the speaker.
That's perfect for our strange Kaga.
Also, I'm a fan of theramin music.
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I dragged myself all the way to my room under my own steam after what happened.And I've been fast asleep until now....which meansthe person that I met yesterday was......fufu.Well then, that's wonderful.Kaga-san, what's that...?I got a present.A theremin.FIN.