The theremin has a reputation for sounding spooky, a la the ‘Midsomer Murders’ theme. But in Carolina Eyck’s precisely positioned hands, it becomes much more.
Carolina Eyck and her theremin at ACO headquarters. She controls pitch with her right hand, and volume by moving her left hand up and down. Oscar Colman
The first time Carolina Eyck played a theremin in public, the 8-year-old turned the instrument on and her audience was treated to the sounds of a local radio station.
Thankfully, 30 years later there is much better technology inside theremins, whose two antennae should tune in only to their own electromagnetic field, through which the player moves their hand to produce ethereal sounds of varying pitch.
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