Chaos and theremins

Tuners,

Altho this is a little off topic, I must say that I am pleased to have
looked up a very odd instrumend called the "theremin", and I would now rank
this as one of my favorites.

So, I wounder, there is a skill in playing this marvelous instrument?

I feel that there might well be!

I have been keeping a folder of ideas which I sketch into an am, as I type
these words, putting this all into electronic format, and making it into a
diary//website DAYS IN THE LIFE OF SARN RICHARD URSELL.

One idea that I had, like so many of my ideas, was to make an experimental
pickup, whihc consisted of two sheets of very, VERY thin, and magnetic feild
permeable ultra tough plastic.

I had this idea that a iron-fileing/oils solution could flow between the two
sheets, and in its flow, could come a very strangley shaped magnetic feild,
and I woundered if this turbulent oil/iron fileing solution could act as a
chaotic pickup.

Can anybody please provide me with resources, and ideas as to how to
acomplish this?

I have now, just as of now, decided to send this email to the THEREMIN site
owner...

Perhaps there might be some practical application of creating a turbulent
solution of iron fileings and oil, which could flow throught the membrane of
a double cylinder,-I saw somthing very similar on a video about CHAOS.

On a related note, I had woundered about the effect of making the quiet
frequencys in a sample loud, and the loud quiet.

The effect of this would be pretty much like inverting a sonogram via one of
its axis.

Has this got a name, this procedure?

--Sarn.

on 2/12/01 5:43 AM, tuning@yahoogroups.com at tuning@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> From: Sarn Richard Ursell <thcdelta@ihug.co.nz>
> Subject: Chaos and theremins

> Altho this is a little off topic, I must say that I am pleased to have
> looked up a very odd instrumend called the "theremin", and I would now rank
> this as one of my favorites.
>
> So, I wounder, there is a skill in playing this marvelous instrument?
>
> I feel that there might well be!

Yes, there is quite alot of skill needed to play the theremin accurately. I
have one, and my progress has been slow. You can get them fairly
inexpensively, particularly if you buy a kit and put it together.

Seth

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--- In tuning@y..., Sarn Richard Ursell <thcdelta@i...> wrote:

/tuning/topicId_18606.html#18606

> Tuners,
>
> Altho this is a little off topic, I must say that I am pleased to
have looked up a very odd instrumend called the "theremin", and I
would now rank this as one of my favorites.
>
> So, I wounder, there is a skill in playing this marvelous
instrument?
>
> I feel that there might well be!
>

Hello Sarn!

Well, this makes a lot of sense because this classic instrument has
no physical interface! Well, there's the air, but that has a rather
limited tactile response...

The great virtuosa of the past was Clara Rockmore... a web search
will find more info. on her, but the leading virtuoso on the
instrument is Lydia Kavina from Moscow.

Her last trip to the US was astonishing, since she managed to get
THREE New York Times photos in a row during that week. I've NEVER
seen anybody do that before!

I was VERY fortunate in that she also played my OWN Theremin piece,
WUUUU in Lincoln Center as part of her tour. Such electronic
luminaries (or luminated electronicians) as Bob Moog and Don Buchla
also were there and gave presentations. I "lucked out" a bit there...

You can here my piece here:

http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/573/573549.html

ciou

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Joseph Pehrson