100 Years Of The Theremin | Podcast Still Making Waves In The 21st Century
Left-right: Cyril Lance, Dorit Chrysler, Bruce Woolley and Katia Isakoff
Theremin at 100. A special podcast in honour of the 100th birthday. We speak to Cyril Lance (Chief Engineer, Moog), Dorit Chrysler (composer/New York Theremin Society), Bruce Woolley (songwriter/Radio Science Orchestra) and Katia Isakoff (singer/songwriter and producer).
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Clara Rockmore 1932Photo: by Renato Toppo; courtesy of The Nadia Reisenberg/Clara Rockmore Foundation.
Clara (Reisenberg) Rockmore holds a unique place in music history as the star performer of the theremin. Born in Russia, in 1911, at four, she was accepted as the youngest ever violin student at the St. Petersburg Imperial Conservatory. As conditions deteriorated after the Revolution, the Reisenberg family left Russia and travelled across Europe for several years until 1921 when they succeeded in gaining
other times beautiful. cosmic waves bathing the universe. all of it explained, illuminated, and connected via mathematics. sometimes we call it harmonic analysis, other times we call it spectral analysis, but most people call it fourier analysis. of all these sensory experiences, perhaps music more than any other is the one that is most closely associated with mathematics. the greeks believed that beautiful music was mathematically based music and that there was a mystical connection between music and mathematics, that music was actually the mathematics of time. throughout history, music has been at the heart of human culture. its origins were most likely the patterns, rhythms, and tonalities of nature, sounds adapted and organized by humans to create melody, harmony, and rhythm. some of the earliest instruments were as simple as clapping hands. but it was the ancient greeks who first laid the foundations of our understanding of harmonics, how vibrating strings and columns of