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FEATURED MUSIC*
- "What the Eye Doesn't See" - Donna Maya (Berlin, Germany)
- "Enn og Aftur" - Hekla (Reykjavík, Iceland)
- "Ombra mai fu" - Yoko Onishi (Zushi, Japan)
- "Peak Body" - Miles Brown (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
ADDITIONAL MUSIC
- "Opera Glasses" - Phlogiston Theory & Ron Allen (Denver, CO / Seattle, WA, USA)
- "Time Shadows" - Phlogiston Theory (Denver, CO, USA)
- "No Static at All" - Phlogiston Theory (Denver, CO, USA)
- various excerpts from the album Gamme de couleurs by Charlotte Dubois.
INTERVIEW GUEST
- Charlotte Dubois (Lille, France)
CALENDAR OF THEREMIN EVENTS
- Visit the Theremin 30 Calendar of Theremin Events for links and details of events mentioned in this episode.
MEDIA LINKS
- The Theremin 30 Playlist on YouTube includes music videos and concert performances of songs featured in this podcast.
- #SaveUkraine compilation album on Bandcamp
SUPPORT THIS PODCAST
CONTACT
- Write to the show: theremin30podcast@gmail.com
CREDITS
- Producer/Writer/Host: Rick Reid
- Opening and closing announcer: David Brower
Copyright 2022 Rick Reid
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David Brower
00:04
This is
Theremin 3030 minutes of Fairmined music news events and interviews with a new
episode about every 30 days. Now here's your host from Denver, Colorado, USA,
Rick Reid.
Rick Reid
00:19
Hey there, welcome to the July 2022 episode of the Theremin 30 Podcast. I'm Rick Reid and I've been your host for more than three years now. And normally, I'm trying to publish the episodes around the first day of each month. But I got distracted by some other projects recently and or the desire to just take a long nap under my air conditioner. Here in Denver, Colorado. Today, we set a record for the highest high temperature for this date. And this morning, we actually set a record for the highest low temperature too. And I think I've got a pretty hot show for you this month. I'll play music from Donna Maya Hekla, Yoko Ohnishi Myles Brown, and my special guest, Charlotte Dubois, who will share highlights from her brand new self produced album Gamme de Couleur. Hopefully I pronounced that close enough. Let's start off the first set of Music in this episode with the track that I can pronounce. This is called what the eye doesn't see it's by Berlin based recording artists Donna Maya. After that I'll spin a short but sinister track from the upcoming new heckler album. And I'll tell you more about both of those recordings on the other side.
Rick Reid
07:52
We
started the show with Donna Maya and a track called what the eye doesn't see.
It's part of an 85 song compilation album called Save Ukraine. You can download
it from Bandcamp for a donation of four euros or more, and the proceeds go to
the Red Cross to support their humanitarian aid efforts in Ukraine. There's a link
to the album in this month's show notes at Theremin thirty.com. And after that,
I played a rather chilling soundscape by Hekla called N O AF dish, which
translates to English as yet again. It's part of a new album of doom and gloom
soundscapes by Hekla set for release in September called Xiuxiuejar which
is a Catalan word meaning whisper check out the appropriately creepy video for
that track on the Theremin 30 YouTube playlist. After this break, I'll take a
look at the Theremin 30 calendar and I have new music from Yoko Onishi so stay
tuned
Rick Reid
09:00
It's
time now for a look at the Theremin 30 calendar of Theremin events. Marla
Goodman continues her Theremin Thursday's performances in Bozeman, Montana
through the end of July on her front porch. Stephen Ham has a couple of shows
this weekend in the Vancouver BC area. The divine hand ensemble has a full
slate of performances over the next several weeks to promote their new Aria 51
album. Saturday July 23rd would have been Dr. Samuel Hoffman's 99th birthday.
Karolina Ike is the featured soloist at the BBC Proms concert at London's Royal
Albert Hall on August 4. For more details about these events and more, check
out the interactive calendar on Theremin thirty.com. And if you have an event
you'd like me to put on the calendar, send me all the details through the
website, Twitter, Facebook or Instagram. Also on the calendar Yoko Onishi hosts
her monthly RCA Theremin evening on Saturday. July 23, from her home in Japan,
because of the timezone differences it actually plays late Friday night here in
the Western Hemisphere, but you can catch a replay anytime after the live show
airs on YouTube. This month she will be demoing the Claravox Centennial Theremin's patch editing software. Yoko Onishi has been working on a follow-up
to her All Theremin album she released in 2017. Here's a preview single from
all Theremin to it's called Ombra mai fuo also known as the Largo from Xerxes
by George Frederick Handel?
Rick Reid
13:53
That was Ombra mai fu or the Largo from Xerxes performed on the RCA Theremin and the Moog
ether wave pro by Yoko Onishi. It's from her upcoming album All Theremin to
there's more to come on that Theremin 30 podcast. Later in the show. I'll play
a track off a cool Miles Brown album from a couple of years ago and up next I
visit with French recording artist Charlotte DuBois. She has a colorful new
album out now and she will tell us all about it so stick around.
Rick Reid
14:53
Charlotte
Dubois is a wonderful thereminist MP and is based in Lila France.
Rick Reid
15:03
Last
month she self released a lovely album on Bandcamp called Gam declare, or
something close to that. I asked her to be on the show and there was a bit of a
language barrier as you might suspect, so we couldn't record a live interview.
Instead, I sent her a list of questions in English. She translated them then
translated her written answers to English so she could read them aloud. What
you're about to hear will be my questions and her answers, and it did together.
Charlotte Dubois, thank you so much for joining me on Theremin 30.
Charlotte Dubois 15:39
Hello.
Thank you for inviting me to participate at your podcast sermon. So it's always
a pleasure to speak about ceremony.
Rick Reid
15:52
I asked
you to be on the show this month because you have a new album out called gamma
coolair. According to Google translate in English, that would be range of
colors, and each track is named after a different color. Before we talk about
that, tell me your story about how you became familiar with the Theremin.
Charlotte Dubois 16:11
I
remember my father watching loads of fantastic and science fiction movies. And
I love that the sound of Theremin often using these movies fascinated me
Charlotte Dubois 16:36
I always
wanted one, but I never did to start. That's three and a half years ago, my
fabulous companion decided to offer me one at a rave.
Rick Reid
16:50
What
other instruments do you play? Do you have formal musical training?
Charlotte Dubois 16:54
I did 11
years of classical piano it was a rigorous formation. I had to pass two exams
by here to validate my skills. I knew how to play Chopin, Brahms, but I was
unable to compose myself. Classical way it's fantastic, but it doesn't open to
creativity. When theobromine came in my life, it sounds totally my relationship
to music.
Rick Reid
17:52
Your new
album is called Gam dequeue there. What does that title mean to you? And how
does it represent the music on the album?
Charlotte Dubois 18:01
The
album gamba Kula, I have chosen to explore the emotions that emerged from the
koulos its track is inspired by my personality story of universal feelings
everyone is free to appropriate himself see emotion with his own experience
Rick Reid
18:41
what was
your writing and recording process for example, did you compose on the piano
first and arrange your composition to include the Theremin
Charlotte Dubois 18:51
It
depends. Sometimes I have melodies that comes to me and I do first the piano
composition and then second time I will add the layers of Theremin.
Charlotte Dubois 19:13
Sometimes
it's totally the opposite, as I do lot of improvisation with Theremin one
melody a match of that, and I record it first. For example. That's what
happened for the bush song
Rick Reid
19:40
did you
create the album at home or in a professional recording studio?
Charlotte Dubois 19:44
I do all
the Recode and mix myself with my stuff and other
Rick Reid
19:49
than
which Theremin models are featured on this album.
Charlotte Dubois 19:53
The two
ceremonies that are used most of the time are theater with produce and the
Clara book I really like theater rev it offers a lot of possibilities
especially since jelly Frankel optimized it adding the recipe is our module
it's really great but I love the Claravox too
Charlotte Dubois 20:19
me not
the traditional mode but mme mode it's really magical because we can so much
personalize the presets that the player can create is our musical senior to
Charlotte Dubois 20:57
as I got
to happen to remain and that ceremony late in my creation process this to
theremin I'll only answer song SEC law
Charlotte Dubois 21:27
by the
way, this song was really fun to create because I enjoyed to add all of my
therapy. There is even a little participation of material.
Rick Reid
21:38
Is there
a song on the new album that was your favorite to compose and record?
Charlotte Dubois 21:43
it's
very difficult to choose just one song because this change depending of my
emotion, but I took lots of pleasure to compose lounge really, because I
usually use lubra with my Theremin this time I reversed the rule
Charlotte Dubois 22:14
in
French, the expression whether or not you lay means that we took a smash on the
head. I would like to illustrate this moment in life where we accumulate
subproblems and we fill in an infinite vortex. We are stunned, but we know that
always will be alright.
Rick Reid
22:40
So how
can people listen to your new album and purchase copies of it?
Charlotte Dubois 22:43
You can
find my new album on Bandcamp profile Charlotte DuBois.
Charlotte Dubois 22:59
It costs
seven euros 1000s They're gonna smile bomb. I prepare a bonus track to say
thank you for all the sports is naming is it Ansel? is orange color.
Rick Reid
23:14
Do you plan
to have any live concerts or streaming performances in the near future?
Charlotte Dubois 23:18
Actually,
I do initiation of the remaining music school. I have a lovely project of
concert in a beautiful place. But I can say more for the moment. If you want
you can follow me on instagram i post often my improvisation of theremin and
my actuality. My profile on Instagram is shallow. Abigail DuBois.
Rick Reid
23:44
Thank
you so much for sharing your wonderful music and taking the time to visit with
me.
Charlotte Dubois 23:49
Oh, thank you a lot for the invitation. Rick,
it's a real opportunity to speak about my new album. I put lots of love on it.
And I am very excited to share it with you next year to a vivid Theremin.
Rick Reid
24:07
The new
album by Charlotte Dubois is available now on Bandcamp and I have a link in
this episode's show notes at Theremin thirty.com Now let's finish the episode
with a recording from Myles Browns 2020 album The Gateway. It came out during
the COVID 19 pandemic lockdown so it's only been this month that he's been able
to perform music from the album live on stage. You'll next be performing at the
Color Club in Melbourne on August 5. From the gateway album here is Myles brown
with a track called peak body
Rick Reid
27:25
With the
time remaining I want to thank Donna Maya Hekla Magnus daughter Yoko Ohnishi
and Miles Brown for sharing their music. And a special thanks to Charlotte
Dubois for being my guest this month and sharing her new album with us. Also a
big thank you and Virtual hugs go to the listeners who support this show with
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29:50
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