Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Click here to read the full article on SPIN. Analog music instruments were rendered largely outdated by the 1960s, anachronistic ...

Theremins, if we're being totally honest, look and sound kinda like things plopped down to earth from celestial beings with no instruction manuals. I suppose, in a few ways, cats are fairly similar.

Theremins in “Odd Harmonics” at Judith Charles Gallery (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) A crowd of whimsical theremins is currently residing in a Bowery gallery, ready to play out ...

In a darkened movie theater, a spaceship hovers high on the big screen. Eerie music wafts in like ectoplasm filling a room. It’s strange and foreboding, like the sound of a disembodied voice, a ...

You know that sound that makes the hair stand up on the back of you neck? That “watch out because the alien’s huge, slimy tentacles are slithering closer and closer” sound? Lots of classic 1950s ...

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Lew Stedman stands nearly still. He only moves his hands, ever so slightly, closer to or farther from two antennas protruding from a wooden box he stands behind. After each tremor of his hands, eerie ...

We love the theremin for being a staple of science fiction soundtracks, so we’re just tickled that YouTuber and robotics researcher MsPetiteGeek has recorded one of ...

Leon Theremin’s strange electronic musical instrument that leant its otherworldly sound to cheesy horror movie soundtracks and was emulated on The Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations” is about to mark its ...