Episode 165: Embracing the Spooky Spooky

In the 1950s and ‘60s, the vibrating sound of the Theremin instrument was synonymous with sci-fi films like The Day the Earth Stood Still and horror shows like Dark Shadows to the point where the Theremin became a genre cliché. But a new generation of experimental pop musicians like Dorit Chrysler and Miles Brown (of the band Night Terrors) are using the Theremin to create otherworldly sonic landscapes. Also I talk with Albert Glinsky, biographer of Leon Theremin, about how the inventor of the Theremin instrument lived a life that was more like a Kafkaesque science fiction tale.

Embracing the Spooky Spooky transcript

MUSIC LIST

• Megafauna by The Night Terrors

• Sustain Me by Dorit Chrysler

• Electric Storm by Dorit Chrysler

• Spiral Vortex by The Night Terrors

• From the album THEREMIN 100 - Electronic Music Written For Theremin:

  • Waves by Gregoire Blanc

  • Membran Muisc by About Aphrodite  

  • Under the Milky Way by Tears of Sirens 

• Otherworld by Miles Brown

Dorit Chrysler dynamically plays an original composition on her customized Moog Etherwave Pro, a theremin manufactured by Moog Music from 2004-2006, for an e...

From the album 'Pavor Nocturnus" released by Twisted Nerve Australia / Death Waltz. BUY: http://bit.ly/1zVM38sDirector: Agostino SoldatiArt Direction: Luke F...

Performed by Clara Rockmore (1911-1998), the first performer to bring complete musical artistry to the theremin.This song from suit "The Carnival of the Anim...