When classically-trained violinist, Clara Venice, saw her first theremin, it was love at first sight. Now, she is an electronic pop artist who recently released her sophomore EP, Electric Dream. She ...

Google's Doodle celebrating Clara Rockmore. Google shared a Rockmore-themed Google Doodle today to give users a sense of what it's like to play the instrument, which inventor Leon Theremin created in ...

Make subtle finger movements and refrain from flailing your arms. That is the kind of instruction a group of aspiring musicians recently received at a workshop for the theremin, an eerie-sounding ...

My younger son has taken violin lessons since he was little, but he doesn't practice as much as I'd like. "Is there another instrument you'd like better?" I once asked him. His answer: "I guess a ...

Invented by accident in the 1920s, the unusual electronic instrument is hard to master but offers an enticing reward: freedom. Invented by accident in the 1920s, the unusual electronic instrument is ...

One of the coolest instruments I’ve played this year requires a small history lesson: In 1949, in a small home in Queens, New York, a 14-year-old boy named Robert Moog put together his first-ever ...

The sound of the theremin is most familiar from Hitchcock and science fiction soundtracks, and a version features in Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys. The original instrument was tried out by the ...

The theremin is an unusual instrument. You can play it without touching it. Two antennae generate an electromagnetic field and sense the position of the player's hands. One antenna is vertical and ...