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krkr
Joined: Jul 25, 2005 Posts: 37 Location: Morrisville PA
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:34 pm Post subject:
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Hi:
It's been a long while and I guess it keeps the electro-music serve cleaner to simply include links to where music lives rather than add lots of MP3 attachements. I'm hoping to contribute a lot more theremin music because the Theremin forum in general needs a boost, I think. In keeping with that, here are two new tracks:
Nessun Dorma - from Giacomo Puccini's TURANDOT
and an original composition:
FOUR THEREMANTRAS (there will eventually be seven)
It’s component parts are:
I Kraa Procession
II Pagoda W’eez
III Xun-Blood, The Run to Heaven
IV Sona – Lev’s Lullaby
Just visit:
www.performancekr.com/theremin.html
Once you're there, click on LISTEN HERE. Mousing over the little gray buttons will reveal the song titles.
Hope you enjoy them. More to come. |
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seraph
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Joined: Jun 21, 2003 Posts: 12398 Location: Firenze, Italy
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:53 pm Post subject:
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Puccini's Nessun Dorma or Mahler's Adagietto are nice examples of using a new instrument to play old music but I think new instruments are meant for new music so I prefer your Theremantras
Excellent _________________ homepage - blog - forum - youtube
Quote: | Don't die with your music still in you - Wayne Dyer |
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Mohoyoho
Joined: Dec 03, 2003 Posts: 1632 Location: Tennessee
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:25 pm Post subject:
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Great Website, Kip! Love the Four Theremantras. Nice to hear some highly skilled avant garde pieces. Good sense of humor, too. |
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krkr
Joined: Jul 25, 2005 Posts: 37 Location: Morrisville PA
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:49 pm Post subject:
What to Play on a Theremin Subject description: PLAY EVERYTHING!! |
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seraph wrote: | Puccini's Nessun Dorma or Mahler's Adagietto are nice examples of using a new instrument to play old music but I think new instruments are meant for new music so I prefer your Theremantras
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Thank you!
The theremin IS a relatively new instrument -- still less than 100 years old. I'm trying to compose more new stuff. However, it's important to remember that people like Theremin himself and Clara Rockmore considered it an instrument that the "old" stuff was valid on, too.
I must confess a great love for playing ALL that old stuff. Cantelouble's Bailero, for example, just sends me into orbit.
BUT -- you want to know the truth? -- and many of the theremin PURISTS dislike what I'm about to tell you, but having performed for audiences (even as recently as two days ago in New York City) the theremin is an absolute wonder for those who've either NEVER seen or rarely seen it -- and you can play the most contemporary complex piece ever conceived, OR the most complex and beautiful classical piece ever written -- and audiences will applaud and like it, BUT -- but when all is said and done, audiences go berserk when they hear you play something they KNOW. It may be the theremin's blessing AND its curse. But when you play the theme from Star Trek (even though there was NEVER A THEREMIN IN THE ORIGINAL) audiences's jaws drop. Because of the novelty of the sound and the unusual sight, spectators gravitate toward hearing things that are familiar to them.
As I said, it can be looked at as either a blessing or curse but EVERY audience I've ever played for reacts the same way. One very extreme example was a one-hour performance that I was playing solo, even without accompaniment of any kind on one of the original 500 RCA theremins ever created. there were about fifty people in the audience and TWO of the them were the theremin's owner and her brother. The entire performance ( totally impromptu and unrehearsed) consisted of them shouting out the names of songs and challenging me to be able to play them ("play HEY JUDE!" play "GOOD VIBRATIONS!" etc.). After about ten minutes of this, (which I had no idea was going to happen) the entire audience joined in. It was amazing.
There are three more Theremantras to come -- they are part of a larger performance piece called Professor Leon's Theremandalas.
Stay tuned. |
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mosc
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Joined: Jan 31, 2003 Posts: 18198 Location: Durham, NC
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:25 pm Post subject:
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Wonderful, Kip. I like the Four Theremantras too. I like the classical stuff as well. You are a very expressive player. Superb... _________________ --Howard
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seraph
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Joined: Jun 21, 2003 Posts: 12398 Location: Firenze, Italy
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 2:55 am Post subject:
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krkr wrote: | it's important to remember that people like Theremin himself and Clara Rockmore considered it an instrument that the "old" stuff was valid on, too. |
Kip,
what I meant is that in the early stages of the history of electronic music new instruments like the theremin and/or the thelarmonium were used to play old music. only later on composers realized the potential of creating new music with these new instruments. nothing wrong playing "Hey Jude" with a theremin of course! _________________ homepage - blog - forum - youtube
Quote: | Don't die with your music still in you - Wayne Dyer |
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fky
Joined: Jun 25, 2005 Posts: 156 Location: P.R.China
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:24 am Post subject:
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It is quite different from electro-sounds i had ever heard, but I realy enjoy these tracks...!
great ! _________________ http://soundcloud.com/fkyfkyfky |
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jbenzola
Joined: Dec 11, 2003 Posts: 77 Location: NY
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:11 am Post subject:
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Hey:
What a great site. Love the retro black and white. Four Theremantras is FANTASTIC....what a great, expressive and innovative piece. To my ears, the theremin is meant for music like this. I cannot stand the theremin playing the classic war horses. It sounds corny and sickly to my ears but your original music is soooo well suited for the sound. Great piece...I love it.
-JB- _________________ Joseph Benzola
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Johan Zwart
Joined: Mar 26, 2004 Posts: 496 Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:32 pm Post subject:
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Four Theremantras is great, but i liked "My man's gone now" to. |
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