Back From Three Days Off, Now the Critter is Gone?

Some call this art, the classic sound of today. This ain't too bad. The Thereminist is good, is it someone we know? Taxidermy is perfect for my shop and a varmint no less, did you say road kill?

Charlie Draper from UK

Nice performance!  But the intercutting of obviously unrelated / completely out of sync playing is kind of distracting.

Yeah, its well played - I do like Charlies style!

Alas, I think that having a dead badger flopped over the theremin is just grotesque! Why???? We dont have classical pianists with dead cows draped over their grands, or basses built into stuffed polar bears.. We see too many dead animals on the roadside to give it any "rarity value" - not like its a unicorn antenna or something even (possibly) vaguely pleasant.

All it does is provide an unpleasant distraction IMO - And this kind of distraction is certainly not (IMO) needed or wanted when a quality musician is playing the instrument.

Fred.

I agree Fred.

There is a certain degree of grotesqueness about this which is unnecessary in my opinion and runs the risk of making what is an unusual instrument even more memorable.

Maybe that's the idea?

When I was trying to decide what kind of cabinet to make for my Harrison 145 I considered a great many but in the end opted for a custom made one which had the kind of retro piece of furniture look, like some of the old wirelesses. Never did I consider anything as 'out there' as a badger carcass!

Anyhow, nothing to do with Charlie's playing which I think is great.

Roy

"Maybe that's the idea?" - RoyP

Well, perhaps - But IMO if we need to resort to measures like that to get folks interested, then perhaps its time to let the theremin go to its (obviously natural) extinction.

If this was an American performance in Texas or Alabama (not that I know one from the other ;-) or Tombstone where they have ritual shoot-em-ups and think teaching their kids that killing wild living creatures without need to do so is fun, and where some deliberately modify their vehicles to produce vile toxic smoke and consume more fuel - Yeah, I can understand that "that" kind of "intellect" may enjoy seeing someone playing a dead badger..

But please - lets not go that way in the UK !  ... If that's the way were headed, Ill be moving to an independent Scotland!

;-)

Fred.

fred - " Tombstone where they have ritual shoot-em-ups and think teaching their kids that killing wild living creatures without need to do so is fun"

At least some have kids, in our culture it is also honorable to abort a baby and rescue a puppy... now I am getting some good theremin design ideas. To think someone got upset over the squirrel who got his nose snapped and deleted my original post when there are real issues that scream from deletion, my society has two faces.

T