Moog Music has announced the 2nd annual Ether Music Festival and Conference. Ether Music 2006 will be held in the home of Moog Music, Asheville, NC, from Thursday, August 3rd through Sunday, August 6th. The event will include workshops, speakers and performances by incredible thereminists such as Lydia Kavina and Wilco Botermans. Keynote Speakers are… Read More Moog Announces 2nd Annual Ether Music Festival
The debut CD from multi-instrumentalist Hypnotique, The Hanging Garden, is a daring and challenging CD, combining influences of classical electronic music, electronica, cabaret, gothic lyrics and English folk music. Hypnotique is known to many UK electronic music fans as the voice of the Switched-On radio interview series. In addition to her skills as a radio… Read More Hypnotique – The Hanging Garden
The Eowave Persephone is a ribbon-controlled analog instrument that recalls the first electric keyboards from the 1950s. Its ribbon virtual keyboard allows the kinds of glissando a Theremin or les Ondes Martenot would allow. The Persephone sound, created by a 100 % analog oscillator, is also inspired from these instruments and oscillates from human voices… Read More Eowave Persephone Ribbon-Controlled Electronic Instrument
ElectroKraft has introduced the Sonar*Axe, an “experimental sci-fi MIDI controller using a sonar sensor to detect hand position (generating notes), and a photocell to generate changes in note octave.” The Sonar*Axe can be used to control any MIDI-compatible device. ElectroKraft specializes in machines “designed to alter, change and morph the standard canned sounds of any… Read More ElectroKraft Intros Sonar*Axe Sci-Fi Instrument
Founder and President of PAiA Electronics John Stayton Simonton, Jr. died recently at his home in Arcadia, Oklahoma on Friday, Nov. 25 after a yearlong battle with esophageal cancer. He was 62 years old. Simonton’s work at PAiA gave many musicians their first opportunity to work with synthesizers, guitar effects and recording equipment. Simonton created… Read More Founder of PAiA, John Simonton, Remembered
ElectroKraft has introduced the Lunar Module, an alternative controller that uses photocells to enable theremin-like control of MIDI signals. The Lunar Module can be plugged into any synthesizer, keyboard or drum machine with MIDI input to create sounds not before possible. “I have created an exciting alternative MIDI controller that will produce sounds and rhythms… Read More ElectroKraft Intros Light Theremin MIDI Controller
Moog Music has announced a one-of-a kind event, Ether Music 2005. Thereminists and theremin enthusiasts from around the world are invited for 3 days of interactive workshops and stellar performances Thursday, August 4 though Sunday, August 7, 2005. Featuring performances by Lydia Kavina, Pamelia Kurstin, Barbara Bucholz, Armen Ra and an open mic night! A… Read More Moog Announces Ether Music 2005
From England (aka the UK), the lovely and mysterious thereminist Hypnotique sends news that the end is near. Her spectacularly dark and disturbed debut album The Hanging Garden, soothing and uplifting music for the impending apocalypse, will be available from March 2005 on limited edition CD with handmade artwork and MP3 download on Hypnotique’s own… Read More The End is Near
Valentine Records is offering a free MP3 download from Hypnotique’s upcoming debut album, The Hanging Garden. Hypnotique calls her music soothing and uplifting music for the impending apocalypse. Look for The Hanging Garden to be released in late January 2005 as a limited edition CD with handmade artwork. For the rest of the month of… Read More Free MP3 Download from Hypnotique
Switched On: Early Electronic Oddities, a 90-minute live radio show featuring Hypnotique, the UK’s leading cabaret thereminist/talk-show hostess, is now available online as streaming audio. The show features recordings of early electronic instruments from 1860 to 1975, including the Trautonium, the RCA synthesizer, the Italian futurists, the electro-theremin, and the Radiophonic Workshop. It also includes… Read More Free Download: Switched On Early Electronic Oddities
