Google's Doodle celebrating Clara Rockmore. Google shared a Rockmore-themed Google Doodle today to give users a sense of what it's like to play the instrument, which inventor Leon Theremin created in ...

In a darkened movie theater, a spaceship hovers high on the big screen. Eerie music wafts in like ectoplasm filling a room. It’s strange and foreboding, like the sound of a disembodied voice, a ...

Make subtle finger movements and refrain from flailing your arms. That is the kind of instruction a group of aspiring musicians recently received at a workshop for the theremin, an eerie-sounding ...

There’s nothing spookier or more haunting than the soaring sounds of a theremin, an instrument that uses electromagnetic fields to produce various pitches when you move your hands around it. You’ve ...

Theremin virtuoso Rob Schwimmer will share his personal stories of Clara Rockmore and her family. He will also offer a humorous theremin beginners' lesson for anyone who wishes to try their hand at ...

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Pamelia Kurstin loves roller-skating to disco. She'll cut your hair for a six-pack of beer. And she's one of the world's top virtuosos on the space age-sounding musical instrument called the theremin.

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