Conceived as an all-in-one ‘pocket symphony’, Good Vibrations was thematically triggered by the notion that dogs could sense ...

Sometimes there are strange symmetries in death, as in life. The twin passings of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson this week ...

And I’ll bet you’ve never heard of this theremin-wielding, spacey psych-rock outfit. Lothar And The Hand People formed in 1965, composed of members John Emelin, Paul Conly, Rusty Ford ...

The theremin has a reputation for sounding spooky, a la the ‘Midsomer Murders’ theme. But in Carolina Eyck’s precisely positioned hands, it becomes much more. Carolina Eyck and her theremin ...

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The theremin in the loungeroom was just another gizmo Dad acquired for his synth band, shelved on the grounds of difficulty. “You need to practise,” she says with impish understatement.

That ghostly music is the sound of the theremin, one of the world’s first electronic musical instruments, and one of the world’s strangest musical instruments. It looks like something in a mad ...

But first, we need you to sign in to PBS using one of the services below. How did the theremin go from science fiction movie soundtracks to influencing pop and electronic music as we know it today?

6, with "The Little Mermaid", there will be an unusual instrument in the orchestra pit. The theremin, which famed music critic Harold C. Schonberg once described as a “cello lost in a dense ...

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 drug of choice in How To Play a Necromancer’s Theremin is bookpowder: “ground-up pages of a reality-disrupting book called The Unfashionable Western Spiral.” The effects are similar to ...