Kees Enkelaar Audio Samples

Just an idea...

The deciding factor for buying a theremin is how it sounds. What say we use this topic to compile a list of Kees audio samples as we come across them as a useful reference for prospective buyers?

So a few obvious ones to start...

Gordon

The Official Sample on Kees' website: the Abba song Dancing Queen.

Audio file:http://people.aapt.net.au/~fwhite/theremin/dqueen.mp3
Found at:http://people.aapt.net.au/~fwhite/theremin/SOUNDS2.HTM



The Funeral March - Kevin Sinnott plays his own composition.

Audio file: http://www.thereminworld.com/sounds/KevinSinnott/the_funeral_march.mp3
Found on: http://thereminworld.com/sounds.asp



Kitten on the Kees - Master thereminist Howard Mossman plays his own impromptu composition.

Audio file: http://www.thereminvox.com/filemanager/download/51/Kitten%20On%20The%20Kees.mp3
Found on: http://www.thereminvox.com/filemanager/list/8/

Hello Community, here is another one:

Today it was a really ugly gray afternoon. I was sitting around with a sore throat. The gray sky made me a little bit melancholic and additionally depressive, so i decided to use this momentum and compose a little song. This little piece of music for my Kees consists of a Midi which i fully composed Track by Track this afternoon without using one written note (only 5 different Piano Accords are the base), only by arranging and rearranging and so on.
After completeing the Midi i played the Kees parts and mixed 4 Kees Tracks to it.
The result sounds very strange experimental and spacy. You can download
>> A GRAY AFTERNOON << here:

A Gray Afternoon (http://www.myspace.com/electromungotheremin)

Best regards
Arthur

Well that's a bit of fun, isn't it. It certainly played with my expectations. For me it was more claustrophobic than spacey, but I did get a bit of grey afternoon melancholy from it, albeit a rather frantic, colourful sort!

The start took me by surprise, giving a sort of "dropped suddenly into the middle of a scene" disorientation, like Sam Beckett in the series Quantum Leap. So where did Sam leap? Apparently into a swarm of bees, where the focus remains during the whole scene. The background becomes clearer as the disorientation subsides. I would say a city public garden, complete with blooms in profusion, dimmed a little by the day's grey light, and people hurrying about their various businesses, unaware of Sam's panicky arm waving, wind chimes hanging from the trees, jump cuts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_cut) lending a jerky, halting, dislocated feel while the camera pulls back and back, showing this to be just one minor event in a cityscape fading into silence.

Gordon,
i´m impressed about your interpretation :-)
Thanks,
Arthur

Here is another one, played on my Kees Theremin and PC Midi Sequencer. It is influenced and based on a oriental style Romanian Dance Traditional:



Black sea Beach (http://www.myspace.com/electromungotheremin)

Arrangement for Theremin and Midi Sequencer by ElectroMungo, Based on the following Midi Arrangement: Dragaicuta , Rumanian Trad., http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~jaffer/Music, Arrangement Copyright (C) 2002 Voluntocracy. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified or unmodified versions of this music provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies and the entire such work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.

And here is another one called
"Bunker 58"
I had the idea to do this, while i was Geocaching some days ago at a "Lost Place - Geocache", a 2nd world war Bunker.

This piece, completely composed by myself has a pure Jazz slow rythm using Jazz percussion, Grand Piano and some Synth voices. I arranged it playing first the base Piano part on my Roland HP2e digital Piano plugged to the PC-Midi Sequencer. Separately i then played two very low-pitch Theremin Tracks but non-stop without any editing cutting, replaying or so.
I played the Theremin mainly by using the volume Antenna very slow up and down while moving the pitch only in the very low frequency region without strong vibrato. I used sine wave on the Kees.
I mixed these Theremin tracks as recorded directly into the Midi Tracks.

The result is a piece of music which is very slow, quiet but also nervous and paranoid. The Thermin part sounds like very low pitch sirens damped by the closed door of the Bunker (the same for the rest of the music). Piano Arpeggios, different percussion soli etc. very silent give the impression of machine gun fire and explosions all damped by the hermetic closed Bunker door. A atmosphere of "Fin de Partie" by Samuel Becket.
I dedicated this piece to a good friend of mine who showed me the place in form of a Lost Place Geocache.

You can listen to
Bunker 58 (http://www.myspace.com/electromungotheremin) here.