Memphis audiences this week will have two opportunities to hear and see Kate Tayler Hunt and her theremin in action.

Even if you're not familiar with the musical instrument called the theremin, chances are you've heard its ghostly sound. It's featured in "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin, as well as some of the ...

As Wikipedia describes the theremin’s control: The instrument’s controlling section usually consists of two metal antennas that sense the relative position of the thereminist’s hands and control ...

The theremin was invented as a Soviet science experiment, and later used as a tool for industrial espionage. Despite its origins, Hollywood embraced the electronic instrument in the 1950s. The ...

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You know that sound that makes the hair stand up on the back of you neck? That “watch out because the alien’s huge, slimy tentacles are slithering closer and closer” sound? Lots of classic 1950s ...

Lew Stedman stands nearly still. He only moves his hands, ever so slightly, closer to or farther from two antennas protruding from a wooden box he stands behind. After each tremor of his hands, eerie ...

Jeffrey Tobin has always been a sci-fi fan — complete with those eerie background sounds common in old science fiction movies. They’re made by a varying-pitch electronic instrument called a theremin, ...

[Keystone Science] recently posted a video about building a theremin — you know, the instrument that makes those strange whistles when you move your hands around it. The circuit is pretty simple (and ...

We love the theremin for being a staple of science fiction soundtracks, so we’re just tickled that YouTuber and robotics researcher MsPetiteGeek has recorded one of ...

Thereminist Carolina Eyck, to the conductor's left, plays "Sirens: A Concerto for Theremin and Orchestra" with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, as composer Dalit Warshaw watches, following the ...