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[S05E07] March 2024 - Ernesto Mendoza



The March 2024 episode of the Theremin 30 podcast features theremin music from France, Spain, Japan, and Mexico. Host Rick Reid interviews thereminist Ernesto Mendoza.


FEATURED MUSIC*

*The full-length recordings featured in this show were used with the knowledge and permission of the artists and composers. Please support the artists by visiting their websites, purchasing their recordings, and attending their performances. 

ADDITIONAL MUSIC

INTERVIEW GUEST

CALENDAR OF THEREMIN EVENTS

MEDIA LINKS

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST

CONTACT

CREDITS 

Copyright 2024 Rick Reid 


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TRANSCRIPT

Please note: This transcript was created with the help of speech-to-text AI.  It may contain some errors.

David Brower  0:04  
This is Theremin 30. 30 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  0:20  
Hey, welcome to the March 2024 episode of the Theremin 30 podcast. I'm your host, Rick Reid and I haven't had an episode for a while. Among other things, I got COVID Again, but I'm feeling much better now. Coming up in this episode of COP music from France, Spain, Japan and Mexico, and visit with Ernesto Mendoza about his new album. Let's start the show now with a couple of European therapists first it's a recent track from Charlotte Dubois with a special guest and then something brand new from Javier Diaz Aina under a different artists name. I'll give you the details about both recordings on the other side.

We started the show with a song called Boucle La by thereminist, Charlotte Dubois and beatbox artist black Adobo translated from French the song is appropriately titled loop it. The duo released a very cool music video for this song in November of last year. Be sure to check it out on the Theremin 30 YouTube playlist. I follow that with a track called Liana de cuccia which roughly translates as laid vines. It's a brand new single release from tremor Nocta music project of Javier Diaz Aina as you heard for yourself, it's a darker, more intense electronic sound compared to the lounge and exotic music he's done in recent years. The full tremor Nocta album will be available on CD starting March 6. After the break, I'll take a look at the Theremin 30 calendar and play an exclusive new single edit from Yoko Ohnishi. So stay tuned

It's time now for the Theramin 30 calendar of Theremin events. On March 2 My interview guests Ernesto Mendoza has a concert in Mexico City, Clara Rockmore His birthday is March 9, so play a favorite Theremin tune in her honor. On March 10 Arturo Fernandez will be performing in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. There are also performances coming soon from Pamela Stickney follow paths guav tour while Jorgensen and human toys so check out the full calendar for details at Theremin thirty.com. Also, I do want to mention one news item before we move on. I got a newsletter from Kip Rosser about the Juliette Shaw legacy project. He says that the archiving part of the project has been completed. And now they're looking for a museum or university or other institution to host the archive. In the meantime, the website's been updated, and it may not be around for long depending on where the archive ends up. So if you haven't visited the Giulia shell Legacy Project website recently, be sure to do that soon. I'll have a link in this month's show notes. A couple of years ago Yoko Ohnishi created a wonderfully spacey interpretation of Paco Bell's canon indeed, that features her remote ether wave pro and a boss loop station. The whole song is nearly 10 minutes long, so it's not really a good fit for my 30 minute podcast. Fortunately, she just created a single edit exclusively for the show. So here is Yoko Ohnishi with Canon in D

That was an exclusive single edit of Canon in D by Yoko Onishi. You can listen to the full length track on her 2022 album All Theremin too. It's also available to stream from her YouTube page. After this break, I'll visit with Ernesto Mendoza. So stay tuned

One of the first artists I played when I started the podcast almost five years ago was Mexico City multi instrumentalist Ernesto Mendoza, he just released a new album with reworked versions of songs from his previous releases. So I talked with him a couple of weeks ago to find out all about it. And when esto Mendoza thank you so much for being on the Theremin 30 podcast, I've been playing your music on the show, so I'm glad to finally have the opportunity to visit with you. 

Ernesto Mendoza  18:05  
Thank you, first of all for the support you have been given me. And second, I am very glad to be in your show.

Rick Reid  18:14  
I invited you to the show to talk about your new album called synth Theremin. But first I want to learn more about your musical background. How are you introduced to the Theremin

Ernesto Mendoza  18:24  
I discovered the Theremin more or less in 1998 I was studying audio engineering course. And that feature told us about the origins of electronic music. And then he spoke about the the Theremin the on the Smarty note and all the old electronic instruments. So that's when I discovered a Theremin. And I was fascinated by the magic of the instrument, the history and things like that. And I start to investigate by my own. And that's how I discovered the Theramin in those days.

Rick Reid  19:08  
Do you play other instruments besides that Theremin?

Ernesto Mendoza  19:11  
My main instrument is the bass. Oh, and I sing and I play a little bit keyboard and some guitar too.

Rick Reid  19:20  
I was curious about playing live versus recording what what inspired you to go to that next level and start making records.

Ernesto Mendoza  19:27  
It was a necessity of playing my own music because at first I was playing just covers different styles. I played classical music, some that stamp just standard music of the Beatles Mexican Bolero and so on as a necessity to go further I have in mind to create my own music and in those days is very important to have the music for the world for the net world. So I decided to compose and record add my own music, specifically for playing the Theremin as the melodic voice

Rick Reid  20:06  
some of the tracks I've been playing on the show over the last year, have you collaborating with musical partners percussionist synthesis. And I was curious if you have a preference between working with other musicians or doing solo work by yourself, 

Ernesto Mendoza  20:23  
I like to do both. I love to collaborate with another musician as much as possible. And I love to record I love to being in Studio. I do have a small recording studio here at home. So I tried to experiment. But to play live as a musical partner as much as I can. It is very important to me, in order to promote the Theremin in my country, and melodic boys capable to do different styles of music. I do like to play Latin American music. So I am open to do different kinds of projects

Rick Reid  21:05  
on your new album. Some of the titles seem familiar. A lot of the songs were on your 2018 album called Cosmo, which actually I played in the very first episode of my podcast. Why did you decide to rerecord these earlier songs?

Ernesto Mendoza  21:18  
Yeah, in fact, there are three different versions of the same music. Oh, yes. I decided to do another version in order to improve my Theremin playing, you know, okay, I was not very satisfied with the two previous version and the sound. So I decided during pandemic days, to rerecord and to work on a new version and improving my performance. 

Rick Reid  21:47  
Besides your Theremin performance, how are these songs different from the original versions? 

Ernesto Mendoza  21:52  
In the first version, it sounds more like demo. It was recorded in my small multitrack Portastudio. It sounds more like they're more and still have the same name same thirimanne Because it was the mix of synthesizer and Theremin. It was a physical version in our physical city, and then I was not very happy with the results. So in 2018, my friend Oscar Rivero act as a producer of the second version, it was called Cosmo, a different name. And with a different production, I only focus in keyboard performance and synthesizer performance and record determing. But Oscar was the producer. And then the third version was recorded in pandemic days, I decided to have different timbers different sounds and improving my thermal performance. So you can hear different sounds different production, but it's the same music, but I think it's more like techno version.

Rick Reid  23:06  
Do you have a favorite song on the new album?

Ernesto Mendoza  23:08  
I have a favorite to perform live because it was the first song I did. That is seen as this year. This is the first song I ever created for Theremin so I think I have a special love for the song. But I love them all.

Rick Reid  23:26  
What was the biggest challenge for you in creating the new album, especially considering that this was done during the pandemic lockdown?

Speaker 1  23:33  
The big challenge was trying to sound a little different to the previous recordings I had in mind to create something that I can reproduce life trying to figure out how can I playing live in order to sound more or less the same that in the introduction?

Rick Reid  23:55  
I really like the bass synthesizer lines in this new album. Are those being made with the actual keyboard synthesizer or is it something you're doing in software on your computer?

Ernesto Mendoza  24:05  
There are both that are virtual instruments and live instruments. As an example, I use reason program to the beat to construct the skeleton of the beasts. Or then I have hardware synthesizers. I use Novation synthesizer, the Core M S 20, meno cool, and I use the bass pedal power rule smoked out.

Rick Reid  24:35  
Oh, you have a Taurus? I am jealous. 

Ernesto Mendoza  24:37  
Yes, yes, I just I just love the instrument because my influence in this kind of music and in general is the progressive rock music. So I am a big fan of you know, Geddy Lee and Greg Lake and those music Chris Squire, of course, Chris. And I just wanted to make Make a small rendition to my bass heroes. This kind of sounds up with the bass pedal. And I use the Moog prodigy synthesizer. And obviously my Theramin.

Rick Reid  25:13  
You mentioned performing this music live. I imagine it's pretty difficult to play. So how do you adapt it to a live performance,

Ernesto Mendoza  25:23  
this is a real challenge. And I am very glad to do this work because it's not only to perform the Theremin life, but also adding some more attractive and play the keyboards too. So the first thing was to arrange the live setup with the Theremin and a combination of the synthesizers and how I can set my equipment in order to play with a good level of proficiency. Because you know, playing the Theremin is very difficult playing determine well in tune and with a good performance. Even more, if you add the synthesizers, it's another challenge. So with a lot of practice doing everyday rehearsals and adding the basic tracks for accompaniment,

Rick Reid  26:16  
so you don't use a live band to back you up then

Ernesto Mendoza  26:19  
 I have been using music guests as another keyboard or maybe a drummer or a guitar player. But most of the time I prefer to play by my by myself with my basic tracks, and my Thurman and bass pedal. And I'm determined.

Rick Reid  26:38  
Thank you so much for the time that you've taken to visit with me and congratulations on the release of the new album. I look forward to more music from you to play on the show.

Ernesto Mendoza  26:47  
Sure. Thank you very much, Rick. It was a real pleasure to be with you. 

Rick Reid  26:52  
You can listen to sin Theremin music for Theremin and synthesizer now on most streaming services, including iHeartRadio, Spotify and Deezer. Let's finish the show now with a full track from the new album. Here is Ernesto Mendoza with st that the Mobius or Mobius strip

So I want to wrap up by thanking Charlotte Dubois and black Adobo tremor knock da Yoko Ohnishi and Ernesto Mendoza for sharing their music with us. Also thanks to Ernesto for allowing me to interview him. And a big thank you goes out to the listeners who support this show with small one time or monthly donations, or by shopping in that Theremin 30 Pro Shop and merch store on the website. I'll be back soon with another episode of the Theremin 30 podcast as we start season six. Thanks to all of you who have been with me from the beginning and I hope you will continue to go along with me for the ride.

David Brower  30:41  
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[S04E07] March 2023 - Kip Rosser (The Juliet Shaw Legacy Project)

 


In the March 2023 episode of the Theremin 30 podcast, host Rick Reid plays theremin music from Mexico, Japan, Finland, and the USA. Rick's special guest is Kip Rosser, the Juliet Shaw Legacy Project coordinator. 

FEATURED MUSIC*

  • "The Virgin Rainbow" featuring Ernesto Mendoza [edit] - Sharigrama (Tepoztlán, Mexico)
  • "Three Intermezzi Op. 117 no. 1" [Brahms] - Yoko Onishi (Zushi City, Japan)
  • "Lake Theme for Saw, Theremin and Piano" - Kepa Lehtinen (Helsinki, Finland) 
  • "Beau Soir" [Debussy] - Juliet Shaw (Norwalk, CT, USA)
*The full-length recordings featured in this show were used with the knowledge and permission of the artists and composers. Please support the artists by visiting their websites, purchasing their recordings, and attending their performances. 

ADDITIONAL MUSIC

INTERVIEW GUEST

CALENDAR OF THEREMIN EVENTS

MEDIA LINKS

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST

CONTACT

CREDITS 

Copyright 2023 Rick Reid 


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TRANSCRIPT

Please note: This transcript was created with the help of speech-to-text AI.  It may contain some errors.

David Brower  00:04

This is "Theremin 30," thirty minutes of theremin music, news, events and interviews, with a new episode about every 30 days. Now, here is your host from Denver, Colorado, USA -- Rick Reid!

Rick Reid  00:20

Hey, welcome to the March 2023 episode of the Theremin 30 podcast. This is the final episode of season 4 of the Theremin 30 podcast. I wasn't able to produce a full 12 episodes this past year, either because some other projects got in the way, or I wasn't able to schedule guests at the right times, but I think the shows I did publish have some great music and informative interviews, so be sure to check out any episodes you may have missed.

This month, I've got music from Mexico, Japan, and Finland.  And my special guest is thereminist Kip Rosser. He'll tell us all about the Juliet Shaw Legacy Project."
Let's dive right into the music now. In a few minutes, I'll play a classical track from Yoko Onishi's current album. But first, I've got a recent release featuring Ernesto Mendoza from Mexico City.  This past December, he appeared as a guest thereminist on Mexican electronic music producer Carlos Sharigrama's new track called "The Virgin Rainbow."  It appears on the Quartz Reveal compilation album from the Adhara Records label. This track runs a bit too long to play in its entirety, so here is an edited version of "The Virgin Rainbow" by Sharigrama.


Rick Reid  10:16
We started this episode with an excerpt of ""The Virgin Rainbow" by Sharigrama, featuring Ernesto Mendoza on theremin.  You can listen to the full 8-minute track on the Theremin 30 YouTube playlist. 

After that, we heard some classical music from Yoko Onishi's current album, All Theremin 2. "Three Intermezzi, Opus 117, Number 1" by Johannes Brahms features Yoko performing with her vintage RCA theremin and a Moog Etherwave Pro. Yoko hosts the RCA Theremin Evening live-streaming recital on YouTube on the fourth Saturday afternoon of every month from her home in Zushi City, Japan. If you want to tune in, be sure to adjust for your time zone. Here, where I live in Colorado, the live stream starts on late Friday night.

I'll be right back with the Theremin 30 calendar and new music from Kepa Lehtinen. And later in the show, I'll visit with Kip Rosser about the Juliet Shaw Legacy Project.  So stay tuned!

Rick Reid  11:23

It's time now for a look at the Theremin 30 calendar of theremin events!  

The Octopus Project has a couple of concerts scheduled in Austin, Texas, on March 10th and 14th.

On Sunday, March 12th, Miss Therie will present a lecture and performance in Markelo, Netherlands.

Jumping back to Austin, Texas, Aileen Adler has a free show set for March 17th.

On the 18th, James Bohn performs at the Bleep Blorp Festival of Synthesis and Electronic Music in Lowell, Massachusetts. 

On the 20th, Ludger Schneider presents ""Music from the Aether -- Electronic Music in the Rhineland of the 1920s"" at VHS Monheim in the Cologne, Germany, area.

Peter Theremin teaches a series of theremin classes in Moscow beginning March 26th.

On March 28th, Marla Goodman demonstrates the D-Lev digital theremin at the American Computer and Robotics Museum in Bozeman, Montana.

On April 4th,  Polygraph Lounge presents a concert in Brooklyn that will also be available as a free live stream.

And coming up on April 13th, the punk duo Human Toys plays the Wild Weekend festival on Majorca island in Spain.

For details about these events and many more, check out the interactive calendar on Theremin30.com. If you have a theremin event you'd like me to list on the calendar, send me a note with all the details." Now, let's get back into the music with a new release from Finnish thereminist Kepa Lehtinen. From his brand new EP In the Heart of Winter, this track is called "Lake Theme for Saw, Theremin, and Piano."

Rick Reid  14:51

That was "Lake Theme for Saw, Theremin, and Piano" from the new release In the Heart of Winter. That recording features Kepa Lehtinen on theremin and piano, and Puka Oinonen on musical saw. You can listen to all seven tracks from In the Heart of Winter on Spotify and most other streaming services.

Coming up after this break, I'll visit with Kip Rosser about the Juliet Shaw Legacy Project, so stay right here."

Rick Reid  15:32

Kip Rosser is a professional theremin performer, recording artist, blogger, YouTube creator, and teacher based in Morrisville, Pennsylvania. I spoke with him a couple of weeks ago to learn about his efforts to archive the work of one of America's earliest thereminists, Juliet Shaw. Kip Rosser. Thanks so much for joining us on that Theremin 30 podcast.

Kip Rosser 15:53
You're very welcome. Happy to be here. 

Rick Reid  15:55
You're working on a project that involves a thereminist I've never heard of, Juliet Shaw.

Kip Rosser
That's right.

Rick Reid
Tell me about what you've been up to. 

Kip Rosser  16:03
In 2008 I happened to be rereading a book that I've read at least three or four times about Theremin himself. In the acknowledgement section there is a single sentence thanking Sandra Shaw Murphy and Karen Shaw for materials associated with their mother, American pianist and thereminist Juliet Shaw. That's all I ever knew. And I became fascinated. Who is that person? It's mentioned in this book, who is she? Through searches online, I found the music school that she founded called the Silvermine School of Music. Her two daughters Sandra and Karen were still alive. Julia died in 1994. So I was able to contact her two daughters. And in 2008, I went to meet them. The theremin was there and they said, it doesn't work. We've tried it. It doesn't work. But I've had enough experience with theremins to know that they're extremely temperamental. I plugged it in and after about 15 minutes, I was able to get it to work. I interviewed them they were incredibly funny and witty, and I was going to produce just a little 20 minute documentary about Juliet Shaw. That was it. They had a little shoe box and a couple of other little boxes of Xeroxes of newspaper articles and some photographs. And they told me at the time, we know there's a cassette tape or two around here, but we don't know where they are. So I took what I had and came home and promptly backed up the footage from the camera, got rid of the footage from the camera itself on its hard drive, backed it up on an external hard drive. A week or two later, my computer was stolen. And my hard drive busted and the data couldn't be recovered. So I lost everything couldn't do a thing. You know sometimes you'll save something on the computer, but you forget where you're saving it to?

 
Rick Reid
Yes.

Kip Rosser 
And about two years ago, I found six to eight minutes of footage, but not the interview stuff so I couldn't use it. Oh, I put together a small video for Sandra. Karen had died in 2019. I put an unlisted video on YouTube. It's interesting and she said it moved to tears because there are footage of Kara and Sandra together at Juliet's theremin demonstrating their mother's technique. She said I'd like to meet with you again. Can you come meet me? And then June of 2022 we met I got there and this living room of their house will see add people for a concert Wow. The living room is extraordinary. Three concert grand pianos it looks like it comes out of a different time period. Sandra is the executive director of the Silvermine School of Music and she still does recitals and concerts all the time. And there's the theremin in precisely the same place that I have left it 14 years before then she said doesn't work. Got it to work again. But this time all over the chairs are just piles and piles of foot high of old crumbling, oxidized newspaper articles, magazines, tons of spread everywhere, a stack of at least a dozen reel-to-reel tapes, and boxes and boxes of cassette tapes. None of it was in any particular order. And that's when I asked her if she would allow me to start helping her to organize at the time she was 84. And she just turned 85 on February 7. It's an overwhelming task. And I asked her if she would be willing to allow me to help her organize this thing. And that is when she consented to let me take everything to finally get all of the materials we can find whether it's ephemera, printed materials, audio materials, video materials, organize it, preserve it, archive it correctly, which it all is now and then donate it to an institution. We've approached a number of institutions that are two more we're going to approach there at Yale University at the Smithsonian, New York Public Library, Peabody Institute, and there's going to be one or two more and EMEAPP who has already agreed they want the whole thing. The reason why we're so assisting others as opposed to just give it to the Electronic Music Education and Preservation Project is because Karen and Sandra originally wanted to get it to Yale because Juliet's first public performance on a theremin took place at Yale University. I worked with vendors in Ohio, in Arizona, in New York City and other states to do the digitization of things that I couldn't do myself. I, at this point, spent between 800 and 900 hours. With the exception of certain proprietary types of tapes and audio, which I'm unable to do myself, I digitize everything, all the photographs, every lecture, all the handwritten sheets, recital programs, it's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of artifacts that I digitize myself plus 21 audio cassettes 32 reel to reel tapes, 16 vinyl recordings, all of them have now been digitized. And believe it or not, audio cassettes 20 and 21, I just acquired yesterday. It's a tremendous legacy plus Juliet's theremin. Turns out Juliet Shaw acquired that theremin in the very early 1930s, as a result of visiting him in his apartment. She brought her RCA to him, she played for him, and he said, I am going to build you an extended octave range of six and a half octaves. There are handwritten accounts, plus audio accounts on tape, Juliet describing her meeting with what his apartment was like, which no one has ever described. And the fact that he said, I will build you this. So I think we pretty well established that it was built for her specifically. That's the term that he gave her or sold her I don't know whether she bought it or traded it with her RCA. It's in rough shape, but it's still played. She played that thing forever, up until the late 80s, early 90s When she could no longer play any of the others.

Rick Reid  21:47
Why is it important to you and to the listeners of this show that we preserve all of these artifacts from Juliet Shaw's life and career? 

Kip Rosser  21:57
The fact is that Theremin Clara Rockmore, Lucy rose and Samuel Hoffman, George Goldberg, and some of these other people. They're the absolute first generation of Theremin players. Julia Shaw is among that group. Did she tour the world know why she world famous? Not really, but what she did arguably was as unique as anything any of them ever did. First of all, she founded a music and art center called the Sasqua Hills Music and Arts Center. When she left West Hartford, Connecticut, she founded the Silvermine School of Music. She was a concert pianist from the very late 20s to early 30s. All the way through the rest of her life. She, as far as I know, is the only concert pianist, flash them in the world that has ever been her piano playing is extraordinary. And she devoted her life to being a teacher, a feminist and someone whose entire Mo was to bring culture and music to the area in which she lit her Silvermine School of Music was never just a school where piano students came there were concert, huge social gatherings, and she donated proceeds from her concerts to all sorts of causes the Red Cross to high schools that needed band uniforms or needed to go to Florida to compete in a band competition. She gave away 10s of 1000s of dollars raised at her concert, she created this thing called the 12 piano symphony. Where have you ever heard of 12 women in pink chiffon evening gown 12 pianos on stage playing for an hour concert. And she would break up this concert by playing theremin herself. She really played the theremin beautifully. She played in New York City. She played in Hartford. She played all around her area. And I think that is just as important as any of the other theremenists, she championed the instrument. She had nothing but amazing things to say about Theremin. And so she used to talk about it and lecture about it during her concert. She's one of the first generation just as valid, and I think just as important as any of the others. And the whole thing is just this huge body of work. To me, it's just worth preserving. It's fascinating to be able to be a part of this thing. That's why I'm doing it, how can people get involved. And now we're in the fundraising phase to try to raise enough money to make sure that Theremin is preserved and restored just a little bit. And also the pay for things like the cost of the vendors that have imported all these tape materials and video materials. I have been personally doing out of pocket. I've spent all my own money to get these things done, because I don't want to hold the project up. So the funding will pay for all of those costs. Hopefully that means reimbursement. But I'm not making done on this, to me, being the person who center entrusted with this, to put it together has been compensation and not because you just wouldn't believe what I've heard the things that I've been able to watch that no one has ever seen for 70 years and we keep discovering more. 

Rick Reid  24:56
If somebody donates I understand you have a premium or gift for them. 

Kip Rosser  25:00
Anybody who donates $20 or more will receive free the first volume of Julia Shaw's music ever to be released. There are recordings that are just absolutely astounding to listen to. And I'm including in this collection, mostly theremin music, but I want people to hear what kind of concert pianist she wants. I want people to be able to hear how her love of experimental contemporary music influenced what she did. 

Rick Reid  25:26
So how do people find out about this opportunity to support your efforts and to get this recording?

Kip Rosser  25:33
All anyone has to do is go to JShawLegacy.com All the information is there. All you have to do is click to make a donation. It goes right to paid now, I make absolutely nothing other than reimbursement for what I've already put out. And anything that's leftover if we reach the goal amount goes immediately to Sandra Shaw and the Silver Mine Music School. Simple as that. 

Rick Reid  25:56

Let's listen now to a recording from the archive. Here is Juliet Shaw playing the 1891 Claude Debussy composition, "Beau Soir" or "Beautiful Evening."

That was "Beau Soir," written by Claude Debussy and performed by Juliet Shaw. You can learn how to support the Juliet Shaw Legacy project and get a download of the upcoming compilation album by following the links and banners in this month's show notes at Theremin30.com.

With the moments remaining, I want to thank Sharigrama, Yoko Onishi, Kepa Lehtinen, and the estate of Juliet Shaw for allowing me to share their music with you. Also, a big thanks to Kip Rosser for telling us all about the Juliet Shaw Legacy Project. I'll have Kip back on a future episode to talk about some of his own theremin adventures.  And a special thanks goes to the listeners who support the show with small one-time and monthly donations or by shopping with the affiliate program advertisers that appear on the Theremin30.com website.

I will be back with season 5 of the Theremin 30 podcast in April. Thanks so much to many of you who have been listening since I got started back in 2019. I would be grateful if you would tell your friends about the show and spreading the word on social media.

Until next time, I'm your host Rick Reid. I'll see you somewhere in the ether.

David Brower  29:48

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[S04E03] July 2022 - Charlotte Dubois

 


In the July 2022 episode of the Theremin 30 podcast, host Rick Reid plays theremin music from Germany, Iceland, Japan, France, and Australia. Rick interviews thereminist/pianist Charlotte Dubois about her new album Gamme de couleurs. 

▶️ Listen to this episode on your favorite podcast platform.

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)
*The full-length recordings featured in this show were used with the knowledge and permission of the artists and composers. Please support the artists by visiting their websites, purchasing their recordings, and attending their performances. 

ADDITIONAL MUSIC

INTERVIEW GUEST

CALENDAR OF THEREMIN EVENTS

MEDIA LINKS

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST

CONTACT

CREDITS 

Copyright 2022 Rick Reid 


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TRANSCRIPT

This transcript was generated with an AI speech-to-text system. It may contain errors.

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 small one time and monthly donations. I really appreciate your help. If you'd like to help out there is information on the website, Theremin thirty.com. There's also a merchandise store where you can pick up T shirts and bumper stickers and other fun things. So check that out. Until next time, I'm your host, Rick Reid. I'll see you again somewhere in the ether.

 

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