9-Year Old Thereminist Carolina Eyck Plays ‘Romanze’
Sunday Synth Jam: This video, from 1997, captures a then 9-year old Carolina Eyck playing Romanze, by Natalja Baklanova.
Tag: classical music
Isao Tomita Has Died At The Age Of 84
Synthesist Isao Tomita – best known for a series of albums featuring synthesizer arrangements of classical works – has died at the age of 84. Tomita (22 April 1932 – 5 May 2016) died of chronic cardiac failure, with family at his bedside.
François Couperin’s Les Barricades Mystérieuses On Animoog
Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures a performance by Vinícius Mello of François Couperin’s Les Barricades Mystérieuses.
Canon For Theremin & LoopStation
Sunday Synth Jam: Carolina Eyck is one of the world’s foremost theremin virtuosi, performing with orchestras around the world. She’s also created an excellent series of performance and educational videos. In this video, the second in her ‘Theremin Session’ series, Eyck discusses and performs the Canon for Theremin and Loop Station by Christopher Tarnow.
Carolina Eyck – ‘Elephant in Green’
Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures an encore performance by thereminist Carolina Eyck.
Minimalist Terry Riley Was Remixing Before Remixing Was Cool – ‘You’re Nogood’
American minimalist composer and performer Terry Riley is not as well known as fellow minimalists Steve Reich and Philip Glass. Nevertheless, his work – which explores tape looping, live performance with tape delay, microtonality, world music influences, synthesis and more – has been influential across several generations of musicians An interesting example of his early… Read More Minimalist Terry Riley Was Remixing Before Remixing Was Cool – ‘You’re Nogood’
‘Switched On’ Style Bach On iPad – Prelude in C Major BWV 846
Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via Flavio Sallin, captures a ‘switched-on’ style performance of Bach on an iPad.
In The Hall Of The Mountain King, Switched-On Style
Sunday Synth Jam: In this video, Markus Fuller, who is usually dissecting electronic music gear in his videos, shares his switched-on/classitronica style arrangement of Edvard Grieg‘s In The Hall Of The Mountain King.
Bach Visualized With Neon Lights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRYpIYCHlOI Bach In Lights is a music visualization, based on Bach’s Prelude And Fugue In C (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, No.1), performed by Pierre-Laurent Aimard.
Craig Leon’s Bach To Moog, Live in London
Sony Classical has released Bach To Moog, an album that’s expected to be the first created with Moog Music’s reissued System 55 modular synthesizer. Bach To Moog – by composer, arranger and producer Craig Leon – recalls the 1968 Walter/Wendy Carlos album, Switched On Bach, which was many listeners’ introduction to the possibilities of synthesizers. While the… Read More Craig Leon’s Bach To Moog, Live in London
