Here’s a live performance by Rob Schwimmer at Superbooth 2024 of Olivier Messiaen’s ‘Quartet for the End of Time’.… Read More Rob Schwimmer & “The Best Playing Of An Electronic Instrument Maybe Ever”
Organizers of ContinuuCon, the Second International Haken Continuum Fingerboard Conference, sent a reminder that anyone who purchases an event ticket by April 30 can do so at “a substantial discount,” with tickets priced at $175 during the month of April and $250 thereafter.
Sunday Synth Jam: Rob Schwimmer, of the New York Theremin Society, performs Erich Korngold’s In meine innige Nacht on a Hobbs theremin. Here’s what Schmwimmer has to say about the performance:
Going to be in NYC two weeks from now? The NY Theremin Society is offering a Theremin workshop for kids (and for grown-ups later in the day) with renowned thereminists Dorit Chrysler, Charlie Hobbs and Rob Schwimmer. The classes are Sunday, October 5 at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn (159 Pioneer St (Red Hook)). Supported by… Read More Kid Cool Theremin School
Sunday Synth Jam: Rob Schwimmer plays Eric Clapton’s “Steppin’ Out” on the Haken Continuum Fingerboard.
More Theremin goodness from Rob Schwimmer. Here, he’s playing a song by Beck [Hansen, yes, the two-turntables-and-a-microphone Beck], “Why Did You Make Me Care.” The performance was at the NY Theremin Society concert back in September at Joe’s Pub in NYC.
Sunday Synth Jam: New York Thereminist Rob Schwimmer plays a Star Trek – Coltrane After The Rain medley on a 1929 RCA “theremin of reknown.” Schwimmer had this to say about playing the H. Whipple Abbott theremin: “84 years old electronics! And so thick sounding it’s as if you’re touching somebody.”
Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures a performance of Scriabin’s Feuillet d’Album, by Continuum and Theremin virtuoso Rob Schwimmer. The melody is played on the Haken Continuum Fingerboard (aka Continuum), using Ed Eagan’s Sine Wave patch from the EaganMatrix Synth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxLYWb-56uA Sunday Synth Jam: Reader Rob Schwimmer sent in this ‘switched on’ cover of The Beatles’ Because. Here’s what he has to say about it: I wanted to do a track with polyphonic playing, poly vibrato (!), etc and this well-known (ahem!) piece seemed like a good fit for that… An imperfect performance but really… Read More Switched On Beatles – ‘Because’
Sunday Synth Jam: Reader Rob Schwimmer performs his take on Rachmaninoff’s Etude Tableau in Ebm op39 #5, on the Haken Continuum Keyboard. Schwimmer says that “I’ve always loved the great guitarists of the 60’s–Hendrix, Beck, Clapton, Feiten, etc. As a keyboard player I envied their expressive options–vibrato, note bending, sustain, etc.” I’m not sure if the Hendrix… Read More Hendrix vs Rachmaninoff
