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Complex Numbers #990216 added August 8, 2020 at 12:01am
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The Great Gig in the Sky
Sometimes, in here, I talk about deep philosophical shit.
https://www.borninspace.com/musician-performs-pink-floyds-great-gig-in-the-sky-o...
Musician Performs Pink Floyd’s ‘Great Gig In The Sky’ On Theremin
But sometimes it's just some random musician playing cool instruments.
For reference, here is the original  , from one of the greatest albums of all time.
A theremin is intrinsically fascinating. It gives music an ethereal, futuristic sound and has been used in soundtracks to convey a sense of weirdness or otherworldliness.
But the theremin was invented in late 1920, meaning that in two months, the instrument will be 100 years old. It was invented after the end of WWI and the Russian Revolution.
If you're not familiar with the instrument, here's the Wikipedia page.
One of the coolest things I ever saw was a Japanese orchestra playing the music of an Austrian composer on a Russian instrument in, in part, an American musical style. Here's that.
To me, that just demonstrates the universality of music.
And if you don't want to click on the above link to borninspace.com, I'm embedding the theremin Great Gig in the Sky video here (he also uses other specialty instruments):
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