Lara Wickes is driving through the rolling Hollywood hills after another long day at the office. The accomplished oboe and theremin player makes a living regularly recording for television shows and ...

In a darkened movie theater, a spaceship hovers high on the big screen. Eerie music wafts in like ectoplasm filling a room. It’s strange and foreboding, like the sound of a disembodied voice, a ...

When the Houston Ballet opens its season on Sept. 6, with "The Little Mermaid", there will be an unusual instrument in the orchestra pit. The theremin, which famed music critic Harold C. Schonberg ...

Strange it is. Stranger the workstyle. Strangest the name. The person you see in the picture above is not a magician. He is a thereminist, who assumes a magician-like veil, all thanks to the musical ...

Say hello to the badgermin, the strangest instrument ever to accompany a piano. Why did someone decide to convert a badger’s body into a playable theremin? Badgermin don’t care. And, if you find the ...

Ever stumbled across a sound that made you stop in your tracks? Maybe it was something ancient and unfamiliar, yet strangely ...