RE/Search: Is it easy to build a Theremin?

Robert Moog: You can build one that's sort of a "hobby" version of a Theremin, but it's harder to build a real musical instrument--it's just like somebody who's an amateur woodworker building a guitar! You can build something that looks like a guitar and plays a little like a guitar, but you can't make a musical instrument that easily.

R/S: When you were a kid, did you go to a Theremin concert?

RM: No, but I heard them on the radio once or twice. My knowledge of the Theremin as a kid was primarily as a hobby project. This was before rock n roll and the whole '60s thing; Benny Goodman and Ralph Flanagan were still on the radio--it really was a different era. I never watched TV, so any awareness I had of technological advances in pop music was what Les Paul and Mary Ford were doing--their advances in recording techniques were new and exciting.

Other excerpts from Incredibly Strange Music II :

• Ken Nordine
• Esquivel

Excerpts from Incredibly Strange Music I:

• The Cramps
• Eartha Kitt
• Martin Denny

Table of Contents for Incredibly Strange Music I
Table of Contents for Incredibly Strange Music II

Body Modifications and Sexuality / Music & Films / Subversives/Alternative Acts / Writers/Fiction