Here are some highlights of the performance by Pamelia Kurstin at the Joli Rouge, and work shop at Moog Music over the weekend of the 10th of march, 2007.
Friday night, at 11 pm, at the Joli Rouge which is painted red inside, and out, and has a scull and crossbones for it's logo on the sign out front, two bands perfomred. First up was Juan Prophet Organization, followed by Barbez, and the amazing Pamelia Kurstin. I got lucky, and spoke with Kurstin prior to the prerformance. I got a sneak preview of the workshop, and learned a lot about techniques. She was also interviewed before the performance by a private videographer, who also shot the performances, and work shop in coordination with Moog Music.
I was lucky enough to stand only 5 feet away from Kurstin's performance. I was able to learn a lot just from watching her performance from close up.
I also ran into a woman by the name of Schilinger who clamied to know the Theremins personally. Sadly, before I could find out more, I lost track of her due to the crowd, and my vision.
On Saturday, at Moog Music, I showed up early, and helped set up theremins.
Pamelia gave a wonderfully informative lecture, and demonstration of techniques covering all the bases of the theremin techniques, and theory. I learned that just eating something can change your capacitence enough to make you retune, amung other things in the first hour. It was pretty much what was on the E Pro DVD, only more detailed. The workshop was geared toward those who had never experienced the theremin before, but there was something for all levels of experienced thereminists to enjoy.
In the second hour we broke up into small groups of 2 or 3 to a theremin. There were 6 or 7 theremins set up all over the plant. We used E Standards. Everyone had a chance to mess with theremins who never touched, or "not touched" one before. It was a learning experience for all.
I took my modified antennae with me, and showed them to Amos who has been eagerly following my research and development efforts to solve the chirp on touch problem of the standards. He, and everyone was impressed when he put them on his own brighly painted theremin, and played, i mean experimented with them.
After the work shop, while waiting for my cab, plant manager, Mike Peo was kind enough to wait with me for my cab. In that time he mentioned the coming transformation of not only the E Pro, but the E Standard as well. We may know something by mid sumer of this year, but he did not go into details as finalized plans have not been set yet. He comfirmed that the steam bent curved tiger maple on the pro had a high reject rate from breakage in the bending process, and the pitch arm has a 1 in 5 reject rate due to wobbling problems. It's that hard to make a Pro.
He would only clue me in that the methods of manufacture would be more efficient.
I hope Moog Music does the work shop again.
I learned a lot, and it was indeed a chance of a lifetime, I could not turn down.
Friday night, at 11 pm, at the Joli Rouge which is painted red inside, and out, and has a scull and crossbones for it's logo on the sign out front, two bands perfomred. First up was Juan Prophet Organization, followed by Barbez, and the amazing Pamelia Kurstin. I got lucky, and spoke with Kurstin prior to the prerformance. I got a sneak preview of the workshop, and learned a lot about techniques. She was also interviewed before the performance by a private videographer, who also shot the performances, and work shop in coordination with Moog Music.
I was lucky enough to stand only 5 feet away from Kurstin's performance. I was able to learn a lot just from watching her performance from close up.
I also ran into a woman by the name of Schilinger who clamied to know the Theremins personally. Sadly, before I could find out more, I lost track of her due to the crowd, and my vision.
On Saturday, at Moog Music, I showed up early, and helped set up theremins.
Pamelia gave a wonderfully informative lecture, and demonstration of techniques covering all the bases of the theremin techniques, and theory. I learned that just eating something can change your capacitence enough to make you retune, amung other things in the first hour. It was pretty much what was on the E Pro DVD, only more detailed. The workshop was geared toward those who had never experienced the theremin before, but there was something for all levels of experienced thereminists to enjoy.
In the second hour we broke up into small groups of 2 or 3 to a theremin. There were 6 or 7 theremins set up all over the plant. We used E Standards. Everyone had a chance to mess with theremins who never touched, or "not touched" one before. It was a learning experience for all.
I took my modified antennae with me, and showed them to Amos who has been eagerly following my research and development efforts to solve the chirp on touch problem of the standards. He, and everyone was impressed when he put them on his own brighly painted theremin, and played, i mean experimented with them.
After the work shop, while waiting for my cab, plant manager, Mike Peo was kind enough to wait with me for my cab. In that time he mentioned the coming transformation of not only the E Pro, but the E Standard as well. We may know something by mid sumer of this year, but he did not go into details as finalized plans have not been set yet. He comfirmed that the steam bent curved tiger maple on the pro had a high reject rate from breakage in the bending process, and the pitch arm has a 1 in 5 reject rate due to wobbling problems. It's that hard to make a Pro.
He would only clue me in that the methods of manufacture would be more efficient.
I hope Moog Music does the work shop again.
I learned a lot, and it was indeed a chance of a lifetime, I could not turn down.
