27 Apr
2004
27 Apr
'04
3:47 p.m.
On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 12:26, Christian Frisson wrote:
I've always been intrigued by the theremin but never had the time or
inclination to make one. I make my own guitars but am not much of an
electronics guy.
Now, on to more important things... Do you
actually play the theremin?
It's been years I'm considering it!
What about you?
I knew choosing such an email address would make someone wonder about it... As
you may have guessed, provided my reactions above, I'm fairly young and still a
student, alone (physically at least) on the tracks of Libre software and musical
science or scientific music... and the Theremin is definitely the instrument
that has defined my career goals, a passion initially.
Hence the homage alias!
That's ironic: I've unearthed this topic no
later than at the beginning of this
month, but my single thread called "Theremin-style controller (residual
"PdDSP?")" has been drowned among others:
http://eca.cx/lad/2004/04/0092.html
Was it misplaced, not stealthed between the other threads I'd mean, but
mailinglist-wise: LAU, music-dsp...?
I missed that one.
Four years ago, I chose to go for it as the topic of
my preparation class to
engineering school thesis. I used a pitch-only Theremin borrowed from a friend
for the presentation. Since then I couldn't manage to buy one, as nothing on the
market has pleased me; or build one, due to an everlasting hesitation on the
technology to be used (tubes, transistors; capacitive, infrared...).
Now I'm struggling to continue this unfinished work.
I'll have a website and a LaTeX project presentation up and running for this
Theremin-style controller, both in french and english.
(For what my email address was initially made: http://theremin.free.fr)
I'll send you the 5-page document, when translated, if you want. I'll definitely
make announcements on lists too.
That'd be great.
Jan