| Credits |
| 2000, Trailer. (USC)
Director/Animator/Designer: Brian E.F. Oakes Sound Designer: Ben Martin Composer: Clara Rockmore Cast: Maria Colabelli |
| About |
| In the 1920's, Leon Theremin was the toast of Manhattan's cultural elite, and world renowned as the father of electronic music and the Theremin (aka the Etherphone). He had his own studio and invented various electronic instruments, including the Terpsitone (featured in the film): a wired stage that synchronized sound and light to a dancer's movements.
Brian E.F. Oakes’s Theremin: Out of the Ether, an experimental film combining live-action dance, hand-drawn animation, and low-tech effects, is an imagined recreation of a theremin-sound-light-dance performance. (A few occurred but there is no surviving footage.) Oakes was inspired by the sound of the instrument and intrigued by Theremin’s life story. The musician's career was cut short in the late 1930s when on a visit to the U.S.S.R., he was arrested and imprisoned on false charges of espionage. He never fully returned to music. |
| Online Resources |
| The History of the Theremin, Wikipedia Bob Moog Memorial Foundation for Electronic Music Thereminvox: News and Theremin-related activities |
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