How did you find the theremin?

... eh ...
You ask me: Which YouTube video......

Well..... THIS is what i found up till now:

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Music
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CARITAS ABUNDAT
Peter Pringle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCZdjYrB788

Mother, A Word That Means The World To Me
Thomas Grillo
http://Mother, A Word That Means The World To Me

Abends, will ich schafen gehn
Peter Pringle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxb4b-l23zA

Claire de Lune
Lydia Kavina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn4TgYkqdi8

My Funny Valentine
Mooi stuk. Rustig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA_agH85lwI

Tubular Bells
Erg goed gedaan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03frQGyrgQ4

Vissi d'arte
Peter Pringle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvyFDImv0w8

.... Don't know how it's called
Sukho Live, Hollywood 8/31/06
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clQFq0zlpFU

.... By Leon Theremin himself
Nice misic with image colation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTkhyhPOgwI

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.... Gitaar en Theremin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3ZyhIMMbjo

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ARMEN RA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q8p9nTgGtk

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ARMEN RA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd5l_FHGWfE

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Carolina Eyck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3ze0DKrAGU

1929 RCA Theremin
Julius Goldberg's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1jJIUT0vlk

2006 Frankfurt Musikmesse moog show
Jazz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY3kTTRxo8I

Air (Mattheson)
Clara Rockmore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5cOdZh4zK8

Barcelona
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IILU9Lsn_Vk

Because you asked for it
SAMUEL HOFFMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5EzKtn2ARE

Canon with Cello
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http://Pamelia Kurstin

Cheek To Cheek
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuJnnsxN_AY

Crazy Theremin Jam
Gnarls Barkley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW0B1sipLBI

Dave DaVinci Saves the Universe
For his dougter by his wife
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6ka5H7dAl0

Don't worry, Be happy
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFbX0NQAauI

Don't worry, Be happy
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6bSRcRAhnc

Easy gooing
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkUf9kgmjm4

Eigen compositie?
Randy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lywKOH5VON4

Elvise, falling in love
Scott Marshall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZUup6rK728

Ghost Sonata
Scott Marshall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3lq6U4PDZo

Green sleeves
Ross Marshall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMSCOcYztBU

Habanera' (Ravel)
Clara Rockmore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuKBPEDU-W0

Hebrew Melody (Achron)
Clara Rockmore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvCrZSM3F2Q

Hebrew Melody
Thomas Grillo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13sbpeai8ZM

Somebody
....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4bLTvmqwn4

Improvesation
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG5_w86Sivo

La Valse D'Amelie
Gnarls Barkley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2tbdsblDFo

Laughing
Crasy, but knows what he is doing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZGbeyWFBA0

Lydia Kavina en Salamanca (20')
Lydia Kavina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdo9o44YRe4

Martin: Fantasie
Carolyn Eyck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2XGkZXu4YA

MEMORY from CATS
Scott Marshall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJkFjJX5Xyk

My broken wings of love
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYU4OMcTunY

New Yo

Ha, ha, ha! You have a serious case of ITA - Instant Theremin Addiction. Sorry dude, there is no cure.

Well, there may be one cure. Thank goodness you didn't find any of my videos - that would have scared you away!

http://youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=GordonCharlton

Oke, I have seen your videos.....
I'll be taking up flute lessons from now on....
:-D

hello! i first found the theremin when i was in highschool i was over at my friends house and he busted out the moog etherwave. very memorable

And Botskurd?
Now you are playing to?

hello! i had a B3 theremin for several months about 2 years ago but was not satisfied by its performance and thus sold it. the pitch would float around like crazy and the volume and pitch antennas were a bit close and would interfere at times. i could play simple melodies and scales somewhat decently. i finally ordered a moog etherwave standard about a week ago and it should be arriving tommorrow. im very excited!
\\botskurd//

I read about it a lot as a kid, although I always heard it was impossible to play, and they seemed like inaccessible things. Years later when I was more involved with the local music scene in Bristol, a friend of mine asked me to design a poster for his album launch. Although not a Thereminist himself, he'd booked Hypnotique as support, and also - since the venue itself is a cinema - a screening of a documentary on the history of the Theremin. Having watch Suzi play, and seen Clara Rockmore busting out some very complex lines on screen, I was turned around on the idea of the Theremin.

For the first year of playing I was completely unaware of the Theremin community. I started out by playing the piano with my left hand and following on the Theremin with my right, thus familiarising myself with the pitch field. After that, I started learning how to use the volume loop and taught myself by playing simple tunes, mostly Christmas Carols. After that, I used my looper (which featured largely in my synth-based live sets before this) to write my first piece of Theremin music, [i]Rachis & Barb[/i], which I'm still refining and gets requested when I play live more than anything else.

I booked Pamelia Kurstin to play in Bristol as part of her tour of the UK, and briefly met Charlie Draper at the gig. After some communication with Charlie, I found myself in contact with Gordon and Kevin and ended up on here. I booked Dorit Chrysler some months later in the same venue, and I supported - this would be my first gig playing the Theremin. After the gig, Dorit told me she thought I was an "advanced" Theremin player. We travelled to London the next day so I could see her play at the Spitz, and met Gordon in person. He was nice.

A few gigs later, myself and the artist formerly known as MAIOF booked a small UK tour, I recorded an EP, it was fun. I've done a couple of radio sessions since, played a [i]lot[/i] of gigs and now I'm in the process of booking another UK tour at the beginning of March 2008. Sooo... who wants to book me?

Wow, that's a success story!

Was this a lot of hard work? Or did you simply get lucky?

And "[i]to write my first piece of Theremin music, Rachis & Barb[/i]"....
Can we hear that somewhere? Please?

Friendly greetings
Rens

Eh, it's not a "success story", so much as a "throwing money into a big hole in the earth and being tired all the time" story! But from the outside it looks pretty cool I guess. After this year, having been booked by some slightly heftier promoters, played some nifty artspaces, had my music used on a European film soundtrack (a film which I have yet to see) it's all starting to feel a bit more legitimate. Being an "experimental" musician in UK you're lucky if you can ever really get off the toilet circuit and I suspect for the most part I'll always be playing for pennies, but as long as I can do it I'm happy.

I'm re-recording [i]Rachis[/i] on my new Etherwave Pro for the purposes of using it on an upcoming album which I hope to have finished and pressed in the next two weeks. I might stick the final version on Myspace, we'll see...

Well, I owe my knowledge of the theremin entirely to ooo6 who's Legend of Zelda theme from youtube wound up on one of my favorite video game news blogs. I instantly looked for more videos of it in action, and being an electronics student I NEEDED to know how it worked. My search for theremin knowledge has further reinforced my idea that Google is in fact a search engine designed by the gods. Now I'm waiting for my Etherwave to arrive and browsing a theremin forum at 2:08 AM... I think I'm slightly obsessed... Oh well! Hurrah for world thereminization!