Theremin film scores

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By philball1974
-  Mon Nov 03, 2014 11:36 am #39210
I first heard this instument on Portisheads Mysterons, more recently I've been listening to a lot of the Night Terrors were it features heavily.

Does anyone know any good film scores where the theremin is used? I feel like I need more!

Edit* Spelling corrected
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By phantomnoir
-  Mon Nov 03, 2014 11:50 am #39211
If you mean theremin, it's used in Mars Attacks... or any sci-fi score from the 50's btw.
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By Dollarhyde
-  Mon Nov 03, 2014 12:18 pm #39221
Nathan Van Cleave - 'A World Of Difference' Twilight Zone season one. Features Theramin and novachord.

released on Twilight Zone Volume three on sarabande.

and numerous other TZ episodes if I'm not wrong.





[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqXpCHJMnBg[/video]
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By Spun out of control
-  Mon Nov 03, 2014 12:22 pm #39223
Theremin was used on Goldfrapp's first LP to great effect - particularly the track 'Utopia'...

Also, wasn't Forbidden Planet soundtrack from the 1950's one of the first instances of its deployment? :)

By philball1974
-  Mon Nov 03, 2014 12:26 pm #39224
Good information guys. Will start digging.

By siforster
-  Mon Nov 03, 2014 12:44 pm #39226
As an aside, pretty much every theremin performance in film & TV from 1945 to 1967 (when he died, but not until doing a couple of tracks for Captain Beefheart) was from the hands of one Samuel Hoffmann. Presumably because nobody else in or around Hollywood had a theremin.
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By freshoj
-  Mon Nov 03, 2014 5:27 pm #39254
Pretty sure they are a common DIY electronics project, so you should build one and start a band.

By siforster
-  Mon Nov 03, 2014 7:13 pm #39269
Forbidden Planet's soundtrack uses no Theremin - it's all ring modulators and other fun sciencey stuff. First Theremin in films is in Hitchcock's Spellbound in 1945.

By Whip Wilson
-  Mon Nov 03, 2014 7:24 pm #39273
[quote=39254]Pretty sure they are a common DIY electronics project [/quote]

They are indeed. I built a solar theremin and a far more mechanically inclined (and ambitious!) friend built an analog version.

By philball1974
-  Mon Nov 03, 2014 7:54 pm #39279
Some great posts. thanks

I'll probably pass on the DIY project though, I'm about as mechanically minded as a monkey. I was messing around with a Kontakt plugin though and thought it might be cool to get a real one!
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