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  Music from the Ether: Lydia Kavina, Theremin
Percy Grainger's Free Music #1 (1936) is an intriguing experiment scored for four theremins emphasizing the free tonality of the instruments.
It is also a great piece of chamber music, incorporating several of Martinu's stylistic trademarks: melodic inventiveness, abrupt changes in rhythm, and complicated harmonies.
In short, the same things one focuses on in conventional music.
www.classical-music-review.org /reviews/Theremin.htm   (728 words)

  
 $$$ DJ Ether $$$   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Currently, Ether is attending Valencia Community College in Orlando, Florida with a major in "Music and Audio specialization" where he is only a few credits away from earning his degree.
He is a huge lover of the musical arts and thoroughly enjoys everything about Dj'ing, from the wonderful music to the spellbinding energy of the crowds.
Ether is on a neverending quest for wisdom.
www.tenebrous.com /?file=bio   (444 words)

  
 EXTREME RECORDS Release - XCD-050 | ether | Music For Air Raids *In Stock*   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The music of ether restores your faith in the power and creativity of rock music.
Their first album for Extreme, "Music for Air Raids", is also their most outstanding sonic statement to date.
"Music for Air Raids" is set to adjust the balance by combining the excitement of their epic concert achievements with the sonic fidelity of the studio.
www.xtr.com /detail.php?cat=XCD-050§ion=info   (226 words)

  
 Ether Flow, Ether Flow Band, Ether Flow Music
Audiences may wish to categorise Ether Flow in a particular genre of rock rock but it is difficult to do as they have so many different influences ranging from The Who, Kings of Leon, System of a Down, Stereophonics, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Yes, Pearl Jam, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin… the list goes on.
Ether Flow's gig list has exploded as their profile has grown within the local area and beyond.
Over the last 12 months, ether flow have consolidated their music into the sound that they new they could create.
www.themusichype.com /bands/rock/ether_flow_1487   (201 words)

  
 Badawi - The Heretic Of Ether - Review
As one of the members of the group Sub Dub (as well as appearing on the Asphodel label), I figured that Raz Mesinai's album as Badawi wouldn't stray too much off course for the sounds that I was used to hearing from him.
The Heretics of Ether is an almost completely organic sounding album, free of electronics and samples and instead delves into stringed instruments and some amazing percussion on a variety of drums.
The music on the disc all has sort of a middle-eastern flavor to it, but other influences pervade as well and help it achieve a very cinematic feel.
www.almostcool.org /mr/b/b9mu.html   (273 words)

  
 Tone Ghost Ether
Born to classical music teachers in Harrisonburg, Virginia in 1953, Kit studied piano at home between ages 5 and 13.
Their music is all performed in real time with no overdubs, capturing the magic of the moment, using keyboards, electronic and acoustic percussion, cymbals, gongs, flute, EWI, loops, and effects.
Tone Ghost Ether is the latest project involving Kit Watkins and evolved out of jam sessions with John Tlusty and Brad Allen dating back to early 2001.
www.kitwatkins.com /TGE   (1159 words)

  
 black ether
From the dark sensuality of Waltz of the Ether Black to the deeply spiritual September's Song to the tender new age touch of Jester's Heart fl ether is as much about feeling the music as hearing it.
Many find fl ether's music to be deeply spiritual and inspirational, often comparing it to the work's of Mike Oldfield, Enigma and Delerium.
Although officially born in March 2001, the roots of fl ether stretches back almost 40 years, when one 3 year old with a toy piano met another 3 year old with a toy drum in the hallway of a Brooklyn project where they both lived.
www.geocities.com /blacketherpvm/blackether.html   (237 words)

  
 Music from the Ether: Original Works for Theremin - Celebrity Ltd.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
One of the first attempts to unite music and scientific technology in the 20th century, the theremin is considered to be the ancestor of modern electronic musical instruments.
This disc is full of discoveries, including Martinu's Fantasia, and Percy Grainger's graphically notated Free Music #1 (1935) for 4 theremins, along with other "period" works by Schillinger (known for his writings on music and as a guru to composers from Gershwin to Earle Brown) and Isidor Achron (the accompanist to Heifetz).
The music is either pleasantly ethereal, engagingly eerie, maddeningly tedious, or just plain ridiculous (the more recent theremin+tape works often sound exactly like one of those "Halloween Sound Effects" albums.) Basically, the shorter the better is the general rule here...
www.celebtop1000.com /ItemId/B00000J8RP   (1712 words)

  
 The History of Rock Music. Ether: biography, discography, reviews, links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Ryley Fogg formed Ether in Salt Lake City (Utah) after teaming up for a while with Alan Sparhawk (Low).
Despite the failure of the lengthier track, the album stands as one of the most successful experiments in the post-ambient electronic music of the 1990s.
Music for Air Raids (Extreme, 1999) is the first album to title the tracks, although the titles are coordinates.
www.scaruffi.com /vol5/ether.html   (257 words)

  
 Theremin Vox - Theremin. Music from "Ether Waves"
It is the only musical instrument ever conceived that is played by waving the hands in the air.
Stein was well-known in Chicago music circles as a young Violinist and Theorist of unusual ability.
Stein goes he is hailed with enthusiasm as the heralder of a new form of music that in a few years will revolutionize the whole musical world.
www.thereminvox.com /story/545   (755 words)

  
 Turin Brakes - Ether Song Music Review
Though I knew better when I first started listening to The Optimist I kept forgetting that I was listening to a man. Olly’s vocal range flows into Alto range with ease and everyone I tried to convince they were listening to a man would scoff in disbelief.
Perhaps this is just a coincidence, but compared to the more rocking and varied the Optimist, Ether Song is a snoozer for me. Not that Starsailor’s debut was a bad album, quite the contrary - but it’s already been made.
Ether Song represents a play-it-safe progression that would best be described as the same sort of follow up that Travis’ The Invisible Band was to The Man Who.
www.zboneman.com /music/657.html   (378 words)

  
 NJN - New Jersey Public Television and Radio
Born in Trenton, NJ, in 1900, George Antheil was a musical genius, concert pianist, and avant-garde composer.
In the teens and twenties he was the new new thing in classical music, famous for his mechanically-inspired works: the "Airplane Sonata," The "Ballet Mecanique," and the "Death of Machines." Antheil lived in Paris where he was embraced by the moderns, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Erik Satie.
Imagine a musical instrument that you play without touching - that was the sales pitch for the theremin, an eerie sounding device invented by a Soviet musician/scientist (who went on to create secret listening devices for the KGB).
www.njn.net /artsculture/starts/season03-04/2205.html   (619 words)

  
 Turin Brakes: Ether Song - PopMatters Music Review
Ether Song is certainly a departure, and it is all down to the production.
The Optimist was filled with a confidence in what they were doing, but with Ether Song the reins have been relinquished, at least in part, to a "big-time" producer in Hoffer.
The very use of the unifying "Ether" theme seems an attempt to obscure the general aimlessness of the album.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/t/turinbrakes-ether.shtml   (1091 words)

  
 Lydia Kavina - Music from the Ether   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The music herein ranges from the poised, Slavic folk-inspired tapestry "Fantasia, for theremin, oboe, piano and string quartet" by B. Martinu to the harrowing, virtually confrontational, industrial-strength pieces by Jorge Antunes and Vladimir Komarov.
Music from the Ether is one of the few available discs employing the Theremin, and the most representative collection to date of art music written exclusively for the instrument.
Music from the Ether is an attempt to focus on the body of music specifically written for the instrument, rather than target other well-known music and tunes arranged for Theremin.
www.mode.com /catalog/076theremin.html   (2365 words)

  
 Léon Theremin
Leon Theremin's invention in 1919 of the Thereminvox was followed closely by the outbreak of civil war in Russia.
According to the biography Theremin Ether Music and Espionage, he was not kidnapped, but wanted to return to the USSR.
The very good biography Theremin Ether Music and Espionage by Albert Glinsky with a foreword by Robert Moog was published at University of Illinois Press, 2000.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/le/leon_theremin.html   (489 words)

  
 Moog Music Announces Ether Music 2005
Moog Music and the Orange Peel have announced Ether Music 2005, a three-day celebration of the theremin.
Ether Music 2005 will be held in the home of Moog Music, Asheville, NC, from Thursday, August 4 through Sunday, August 7.
Five winners of the contest will receive free registration to Ether Music 2005, a $395 value and one grand prize winner will receive a $1,000 cash prize at the festival.
mixonline.com /news/headline/moog-ether-theremin-0520052/index.html   (237 words)

  
 Odd Music Store - Music books, CD's, Music Music Music!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
As a physicist inclined toward music and physics, he understood electromagnetic fields and applied these principles to design a "space controlled" instrument employing the recently developed vacuum tube, oscillators and amplifiers.
Born in Russia as Clara Reisenberg, her perfect pitch and understanding of music earned her a spot studying violin at The Imperial Conservatory of Music in St. Petersburg at the age of 5.
At the age of nine, she was allowed to leave Russia, touring extensively in Europe and America and finally landing in New York in 1927.
www.oddmusic.com /theremin/theremin_shop.html   (693 words)

  
 How to Build an Audience for Avant-Garde Music
The concert featured music by some of the great avant-garde composers of the 20th century — John Cage, Edgar Varèse and Steve Reich — and live performances by two of today's innovative electronic artists: Tom Jenkinson, who goes by the name Squarepusher, and Jamie Lidell.
The downside to all of this, along with numerous bitten-down fingernails, was that the audience was kept out in the lobby both nights for a good half-an-hour after the halls were supposed to open.
The market-driven record and radio industries are uncomfortable with crossing boundaries and would much rather stick their music, and their audience, in easily identifiable categories.
mixonline.com /mag/audio_loud_louder_london   (2222 words)

  
 ezFolk Media Store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The music world is not exactly teeming with theremin virtuosi.
None of the pieces left any memorable impression upon me and for much of the cd the music just sounds improvised and played more like musical gymnastics than melodic tunes.
Not that that is a necessity in music by any means, but that style personally turns me off and to blunt just bores me. I wasn't even able to sit through the...
www.ezfolk.com /cgi-bin/ae.pl?asinsearch=B00000J8RP   (484 words)

  
 sub ether radio - Music
It was a gruelling schedule to achieve 13 tracks in two weeks of recording, but the band attacked the project with an energy, efficiency and humour that's become synonymous with the name sub ether radio.
After the photo sessions for the CD artwork, sub ether radio unanimously chose the cover you see now.
More brainstorming, and the boys got on to the subject of what music and radio in particular meant to each of them.
home.arcor.de /subetherradio/music.htm   (255 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Ether Song: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Ether Song is the follow up to Turin Brakes' critically acclaimed The Optimist.
But there is real content here: "Panic Attack" holds a hint of the peculiar Englishness of Syd Barrett, while the shiversome "Long Distance" stands out as the finest song Turin Brakes have yet written, a grandiose treatise on obsession spattered with electronic laser-bursts and borne out by a piano coda of weighty epic stature.
But this is a review of Ether Song and again, I was really excited by the release of the new album to see if they could build on what they’d offered previously.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008GQC6   (1300 words)

  
 Ether Drop
So on Friday night I did a bit of tinkering around with Ableton Live, chucking in a few of the sounds from one of the previous versions of Shibuya Neon just to see what came out.
Ether Drop are songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Oscar and Phil from London and Portsmouth, UK.
Unless otherwise stated, all music written by Ether Drop.
etherdrop.blogspot.com   (617 words)

  
 Turin Brakes - Ether Song | Album Review @ Music-Critic.com : the source for music reviews, interviews, articles, and ...
For a band that had their debut album nominated for a Brit Award and the Mercury Music Prize, Turin Brakes haven’t made as many waves as you might expect.
And so Ether Song will arrive on the scene on March 3, hot on the heels of the quality single "Pain Killer" but not really promising to blow us away.
Ether Song was recorded in three weeks during last summer in California of all place, which seems a little at odds with what Turin Brakes, a down to Earth UK duo, appear to stand for.
www.music-critic.com /rock/turinbrakes_ethersong.htm   (441 words)

  
 Theremin Vox - Ether-Wave Music
An article appeared in the Literary Digest on October 29, 1927 as a follow-up to "The Latest Marvel in Music".
His instrument, which was described in our issue of October 1, produces what he calls "ether-wave music" and he asserts that it opens up an entirely new field in composition.
Apart from these possibilities, ether wave music is created with a simplicity and a directness matched only by singing.
www.thereminvox.com /article/articleview/11/1/1   (885 words)

  
 Keyboard magazine - Welcome to Keyboard magazine---the latest info on keyboards, digital pianos, synths, music ...
Moog Music and the Orange Peel announce a three-day celebration of the theremin.
Ether Music 2005 will be held in the home of Moog Music, Asheville, NC, from Thursday, August 4th through Sunday, August 7th.
Several Ether Music events will take place at the Asheville Double Tree, which also serves as the festivals host hotel.
www.keyboardmag.com /story.asp?sectioncode=48&storycode=8741   (467 words)

  
 The Boy Who Heard Music: Chapter Six: IKAPIKAPOO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
I still hear this particular music in the ether, for Gabriel had been composing his own death mass – a piece he knew must deeply penetrate the ascendant heavens if it was to set his soul free.
Up in my ether, where serenity has yet again been interrupted by this reinspection of my solitude, and the thudding of a tennis ball against the neighbouring wall, the organ music ends, the boys’ laughter fades, and the moist, warm evening reddened and finally closes in, to fl.
Sometimes when the music he expected to hear didn’t come, he would walk instead up and down the towpath, sometimes apprehended by the lonely men who stalked the area near and under the bridge in the mistaken belief that they might not look like perverts as long as they kept walking.
boywhoheardmusic.blogspot.com /2005/10/chapter-six-ikapikapoo.html   (9250 words)

  
 Ether Park - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
That success was followed up with the release of a holiday CD, "Ether Park and Friends Visit the Island of Misfit Toys", an E.P. of unique alternative covers of tunes from old holiday T.V. shows.
The band plays regularly in New York, and has appeared at several music conferences and festivals, including the Philadelphia Music Conference, the Digital Club Fest, and New York's Viper Ball, a St. Patrick's Day event.
Ether Park has recieved good press from a variety of 'zines and music papers in various parts of the country.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,1190890,00.html   (372 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Ether Song: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Turin Brakes is one of those excellent British bands that hasn't gotten much attention in the American mainstream yet, along with the guys in South, Elbow and Mercury Rev. And after their shimmery space-folk album "Ether Song," their second, we can see that this is totally undeserved.
And in "Ether Song," Knights and multitalented bandmate Gale Paridjanian are experimenting with a less folk, more rock sound.
With music like that, it's inevitable that the songs are a bit on the downbeat side; Knight and Paridjanian's songs tend to be focused on love and dissatisfaction, only breaking out for the poignant "Little Brother," which is all about someone ELSE's loneliness.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000WSTQA   (519 words)

  
 Plug In music : Review of Ether Net - The Requisite Chemicals
The release, which features ten original tracks by the band, is an honest, sexy, and occasionally an almost haunting mix of songs.
At "Charisma Deficit," the mood changes, momentarily, and Ether Net returns to a guitar-driven tune which is more aggressive than earlier songs and almost doesn't fit it.
Ether Net aren't trying to sound like anyone else; their sound is unique and original.
www.pluginmusic.com /review.php?page=ethernet   (198 words)

  
 In Music We Trust - Thirty3: Ether
Filled with the blood, sweat, and tears of musicians who live and breath their music, Thirty3's debut is chalk full of noisy guitars, screaming vocals, and a thunderous rhythm section, all brought to life by Campbell's heartfelt, oft-painful, though optimistic lyricism, which propels the band to deliver a stunning collection of ear-shattering, ruckus-laden, fierce rock.
The true magnetism of Thirty3 is their ability to play loud, balls-to-the-wall rock music, without forgetting to wrap everything around a good, if not punch melody, allowing the songs to pierce your heart that much more.
Rare is a band that can scream and blast their fury and frustration through in-your-face numbers and not abandon the melody, and on Ether, Thirty3 succeed, making it sound effortless and natural.
www.inmusicwetrust.com /articles/64p41.html   (536 words)

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