Cristian Torres Plays Theremin on Argentinian National TV... Again!

October 5, 2012

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Chilean thereminist Cristian Torres has been hanging out in Argentina spreading the good theremin word. A couple of months ago, he was invited to perform theremin on live TV for a show called "Hechos y protagonistas". He played 2 songs and then spent the rest of the time speaking with the interviewer.

After both Cristian and the TV station received lots of questions about his performance after his appearance, the station invited him to come back and play a cappella! Apparently the audience didn't quite believe that he was actually playing the theremin without touching it. You can watch his second performance here, in which he rocks "Hey Jude" and other songs with an Etherwave Pro.

Congratulations on the publicity Cristian, and keep up the great work!

Posted by Jason

October 5, 2012

3 comments

coalport - 4560 days ago

This video is a wonderful illustration of the great tragedy of the theremin. Namely, that those who have been its most enthusiastic and tireless promoters have historically been those least equipped to play it!"Keep up the great work"......? You gotta be f***king kidding!I understand if you're just trying to b Mr. Niceguy, but if you really believe this is "great work" then you're part of the problem (and quite possibly deaf as well).This performance makes the GONG SHOW look like the Metropolitan Opera.

SewerPipe - 4560 days ago

I give him 5 Stars for doing his best. (I had the "option" to press the Stop button if it upset me) I actually listened to it twice. Some people are better, some are worse, at least he did it “Live”, which is more than I have done so far. IHS ---- Dana

coalport - 4560 days ago

Giving someone 5 stars for doing their best is a wonderful and generous thing to do within the context of something like the "Special Olympics", but I'm not so sure this thereminist did his best. He is playing to an international television audience in a professional studio setting, but the best he could come up with for accompaniment was to play along with the old Beatles recording of HEY JUDE, and massacre it in the process! No one can stop performances like this, but IMNSHO we don't have to call them "great" either.