Back in 2004, I did a theremin gig for an animated children's series called "The Zula Patrol."
A group of animated aliens travel the galaxies to learn new and exciting things about science and space exploration. The series, targeted to pre-kindergarteners through third-graders, delivers astronomy-based science education as well as character-building lessons.
The Zula Patrol is stationed in the far reaches of outer space on the bright orange planet Zula. The group is always on the lookout for the villain Dark Truder. Dark Truder is incessantly masterminding plots to foil the Zula Patrol and frustrate their efforts to make the galaxy a better place in which to live. Perched on top of Dark Truder's shiny, bald head is his talking toupee TRAXIE. As Truder's conscience, she is always a bit leery of his nefarious plots.
The recording session, done in Hollywood, was a lot of fun. The theremin parts were definitely high-camp but gently so. Of course, I provided musical motifs for the villain, Dark Truder!
I had forgotten all about this show until I was channel surfing the other night and saw that it is now being carried on The Qubo Channel. There are 52 episodes in the series, and Dark Truder appears in most of them.
I wrote to the show's producer and found that in addition to Qubo, where it's running every day, it is also airing on Telemundo (Spanish speaking network) Sunday mornings at 8:30 a.m., NBC Saturday mornings at 10:30 a.m., Ion Media Networks Thursday afternoons at 3:30 p.m., and American Public Television ("check your local listings).
There are a bunch of Zula Patrol videos on YouTube. I've found the following where you can hear my playing (and there are probably more):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z41nrQxie0c ()
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAVryLPggFA ()
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdp2jvCLeiI ()
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViowuBPl-WE ()
A group of animated aliens travel the galaxies to learn new and exciting things about science and space exploration. The series, targeted to pre-kindergarteners through third-graders, delivers astronomy-based science education as well as character-building lessons.
The Zula Patrol is stationed in the far reaches of outer space on the bright orange planet Zula. The group is always on the lookout for the villain Dark Truder. Dark Truder is incessantly masterminding plots to foil the Zula Patrol and frustrate their efforts to make the galaxy a better place in which to live. Perched on top of Dark Truder's shiny, bald head is his talking toupee TRAXIE. As Truder's conscience, she is always a bit leery of his nefarious plots.
The recording session, done in Hollywood, was a lot of fun. The theremin parts were definitely high-camp but gently so. Of course, I provided musical motifs for the villain, Dark Truder!
I had forgotten all about this show until I was channel surfing the other night and saw that it is now being carried on The Qubo Channel. There are 52 episodes in the series, and Dark Truder appears in most of them.
I wrote to the show's producer and found that in addition to Qubo, where it's running every day, it is also airing on Telemundo (Spanish speaking network) Sunday mornings at 8:30 a.m., NBC Saturday mornings at 10:30 a.m., Ion Media Networks Thursday afternoons at 3:30 p.m., and American Public Television ("check your local listings).
There are a bunch of Zula Patrol videos on YouTube. I've found the following where you can hear my playing (and there are probably more):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z41nrQxie0c ()
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAVryLPggFA ()
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdp2jvCLeiI ()
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViowuBPl-WE ()