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11-26-2010, 05:17 PM
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Pamela Kristen on bass, well sorta.
Don't know if this clip has been seen on this forum...  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xGsgG9VmvY&NR=1
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11-26-2010, 05:22 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | I saw her on a documentary about Robert Moog. Cool stuff. |
11-26-2010, 09:35 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Aguilar, D'Addario, Subdecay, Tonefactor | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | Pamelia Is a badass. She can play pretty much anything on the theremin, and can also play what seems like every instrument she picks up.
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11-27-2010, 02:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Northern Va. | | | She's a cutie too... I always wanted to try one of those since I saw The Beach Boys on Ed Sullivan...
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11-27-2010, 03:39 PM
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11-27-2010, 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by trunkshope6  wat is it exactly ? | there's a great documentary out there called theramin,and it deals with it's inventor,a lady thay played it, and kidnappers,russians......highly recommended
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11-27-2010, 05:54 PM
|  | Gettin' medieval on yo' bass... | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: new hampshire | | | Pretty cool. Our guitarist made one of these but I don't think it's capable of anything like that degree of control. Mostly good for spacey whale-song kinds of things.
trunkshope6, I don't completely understand the principle, but basically there's a pair of antennae and they pick up on magnetism or static or something from your hands; one controls pitch and one controls volume. So you control the sound just by moving your hands in the air.
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11-28-2010, 08:10 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York City | | | Pamelia Kurstin was the "bassist" in an Afro-Pop band that a couple friends of mine played with several years ago, and she was absolutely astonishing to watch. It's not just that if you closed your eyes you thought there was a real upright bass player -- which you did, she really thinks like a bass player (at least when that's here role), and she gets the sound, the phrasing, and the function down pat -- but when you open your eyes you still think there's a real upright bass player...albeit playing an invisible bass! Her body mechanics perfectly mimic those of an upright player, with her left hand controlling pitch on an invisible vertical "neck" and her right hand controlling note articulations via a "plucking" gesture. It was absolutely uncanny.
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11-28-2010, 12:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Bristol, UK | | | I'd be very tempted to get a theramin and attempt to play it, but to be fair, the phrase "degree of control" does not apply to the theramin. Let's face it, due to its pitch being determined by the capacitance of the air around it, where you put your hands will produce completely different pitches on different days, etc.
Theramin is relies solely on having brilliant intonation.
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11-28-2010, 12:50 PM
|  | Livin' it up at the Hotel California | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Sacramento California | | | Hey, I play air bass all the time! (but I hit more wrong notes than she does)
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11-28-2010, 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim Campbell there's a great documentary out there called theramin,and it deals with it's inventor,a lady thay played it, and kidnappers,russians......highly recommended | +1
I assume you are referring to the Steven M. Martin film Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey.
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