does any band use theremin as melody instrument?

Moogtron III wrote: On Beach Boys' Good Vibrations, is that a theremin too? Just looked it up on Google and yes, it is. And the mysterious sound on Dr. Who's opening theme? According to some site I found, it isn't, but a synthesizer is being used to imitate the sound of a theremin.

Sorry to be pedantic, but the instrument used on Good Vibrations was an Electro-Theremin, a.k.a. Tannerin, not a Theremin.

A Theremin looks like this:



whereas an Electro-Theremin looks like this:




and you can actually see the Electro-Theremin in action in... Good Vibrations in the following video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CelV7EbuV-A

Gerinski wrote: cstack3 wrote: Not quite prog, but i saw Ronnie Montrose play the Theramin, which was mounted on his aluminum Velano guitar Gosh that looks a bit obscene

Dayvenkirq wrote: ^ But they didn't use extraordinary devices, did they?

I have to  plead ignorance, and defer to Wikipedia :

In the 19th and 20th centuries Russia produced a large number of great scientists and inventors.

Nikolai Lobachevsky, a Copernicus of Geometry, developed the non-Euclidean geometry. Dmitry Mendeleev invented the Periodic table, the main framework of the modern chemistry. Nikolay Benardos introduced the arc welding, further developed by Nikolay Slavyanov, Konstantin Khrenov and other Russian engineers. Gleb Kotelnikov invented the knapsack parachute, while Evgeniy Chertovsky introduced the pressure suit. Pavel Yablochkov and Alexander Lodygin were great pioneers of electrical engineering and inventors of early electric lamps.

Alexander Popov was among the inventors of radio, while Nikolai Basov and Alexander Prokhorov were co-inventors of lasers and masers. Igor Tamm, Andrei Sakharov and Lev Artsimovich developed the idea of tokamak for controlled nuclear fusion and created its first prototype, which finally led to the modern ITER project. Many famous Russian scientists and inventors were émigrés, like Igor Sikorsky and Vladimir Zworykin, and many foreign ones worked in Russia for a long time, like Leonard Euler and Alfred Nobel.

The greatest Russian successes are in the field of space technology and space exploration. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was the father of theoretical austronautics.^[55] His works had inspired leading Soviet rocket engineers such as Sergey Korolyov, Valentin Glushko and many others that contributed to the success of the Soviet space program at early stages of the Space Race and beyond.

In 1957 the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched; in 1961 on 12 April the first human trip into space was successfully made by Yury Gagarin; and many other Soviet and Russian space exploration records ensued, including the first spacewalk performed by Alexey Leonov, the first space exploration rover Lunokhod-1 and the first space station Salyut 1. Nowadays Russia is the largest satellite launcher^[56][57] and the only provider of transport for space tourism services.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_art#Science_and_innovation

Dayvenkirq wrote: ^ That's cinema. But what about music?

On the classical front, there's Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff... Doesn't get any bigger than that... Although Shostakovich thrived under Stalin, while the latter two fled Russia during the October Revolution... Courtesy of Wikipedia... Not all that familiar with the subject, to be honest...




Edited by jude111 - April 16 2013 at 11:00

Dayvenkirq wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: One of the things about the theremin, or the etherphone as it's also called, that I personally find the most incredible, is that it was made by a Russian bloke in 1919! Damn that is a head scratcher right there Why is that?

Yes, how come? Russian art was quite advanced at this time (Stalin would end that pretty quickly, though). Think about Soviet cinema, it was among the greats during Lenon's tenure, what with montage theory, Sergei Eistenstein, Dziga Vertov, Alexander Dovzhenko, Pudovkin, et al.


Edited by jude111 - April 16 2013 at 10:55

On Beach Boys' Good Vibrations, is that a theremin too?

Edited by Moogtron III - April 16 2013 at 09:06

In the experimental prog album Ciclos by the Spanish Los Canarios (4.12 rating in PA, I reviewed it if you are interested) bassist Christian Mellies used the Theremin. With quite many synths and experimental sounds it's hard for me to tell which sounds were precisely Theremin and how melodic or not its use was in this album (Moog with ribbon controller was also used which can provide a similar portamento effect).

Edited by Gerinski - April 16 2013 at 07:14

jude111 wrote: Moogtron III wrote: Well, well, I keep learning on this site. A theremin: I'll admit: I had heard the name of the instrument, but never saw anyone play it, or recognised somebody playing it, or had any idea how the instrument was looking. Interesting! Did you ever hear the original Star Trek theme? That uses a theremin ;-)

Moogtron III wrote: Well, well, I keep learning on this site. A theremin: I'll admit: I had heard the name of the instrument, but never saw anyone play it, or recognised somebody playing it, or had any idea how the instrument was looking. Interesting!

Well, well, I keep learning on this site.