THE CHOCOLATE WATCH BAND using a THEREMIN

TODD TAMANEND CLARK

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Nov 19, 2007, 1:14:38 PM11/19/07

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TODD TAMANEND CLARK
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Rens Duijsens

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Nov 26, 2007, 2:08:30 PM11/26/07

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Yep...
And he has NO idea what he is doing. :-)

rick nielsen

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Dec 1, 2007, 6:15:05 PM12/1/07

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boy what a snarky comment! I quess the "rens duijsens band" is right up
there with the immortals eh

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Dox Doigts

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Dec 2, 2007, 5:20:10 AM12/2/07

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You are right.
It is a snarky comment.

I fail to see what my own accomplishments have to to with the way this man
plays the Theremin, but maybe you do see the connection.
But than again. That he uses the Theremin in a way I did not expect might be
okay. Depends on what he is trying to do.

Someone sayed to me: "If you smash a guitar on stage, than you are not using
the instrument the way it was intended, but it might serve to express
something."
Maybe this serves them quite well. Who am I to judge.

Tony Elka

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Dec 2, 2007, 1:10:12 PM12/2/07

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In article <475287f6$0$19236$e4fe...@dreader23.news.xs4all.nl>,
"Dox Doigts" <D...@Gmail.com> wrote:

At no point in this discussion have you actually said what he's doing
with the Theremin that's not the standard technique.

So what's he doing, touching it or something?

Tony

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Mr. Strat

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Dec 2, 2007, 5:13:13 PM12/2/07

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In article <i816l3dcl6gufkcq1...@4ax.com>,
<chris...@NOSPAMoldtemecula.com> wrote:

> It is when someone uses a proximity detector or gestural controller
> circuitry to drive a digital synthetic sound and mistakenly name it a
> theremin. Then they try to overcome their lack of skill by pouring on
> the reverb and delay. You do not hear this mutilation of the sound in
> the original early twentieth century theremin instruments. Would you
> call a keyboard synth a piano?

I suck on the theremin regardless of what effects someone would try to
use. Probably has something to do with my mediocre sense of pitch.

Dox Doigts

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Dec 3, 2007, 8:35:23 AM12/3/07

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@Tony
What he is doing that made me saying what I was saying?

Well, he is waving both hands up and down a lot, the pitch hand as well as
the volume hand.
Also when he is making 'vibrato' with the pitch hand, he does the same with
the volume hand.
So basically, he has almost no separate hand control.
And in my opinion he is just making 'noise' in stead of 'music'.

But like I mentioned: If it serves in what they are trying to express, who
am I to say that he is doing wrong?
He is just using the instrument the way I do not like it. I like people
making *music* with Theremins, that's all.
Has something to do with taste also and who wants to argue about that? :-)

Rens

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