Of all the musical instruments out there, theremins are among the most mystical. They’re innately independent devices, requiring musicians to simply hover their hands above a set of antenna to produce ...

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 ...

The godfather of electronic music was also a darling of the New York social scene, a gulag prisoner and the man behind one of the most ingenious spy devices ever created. Imagine a UFO descending from ...

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 ...

The theremin is one of the earliest examples of a musical instrument, invented in the 1920s by Leon Theremin. It's controlled using a couple of antennae, which detect the position of the musician's ...

Long-time theremin player Lydia Kavina shows how to play the instrument Japan's musicians have set a new world record for the biggest number of players on the theremin - the musical instrument used ...