What is it? One of the earliest electronic instruments, the origins of which lie in the first world war. The ondes martenot evolved through different designs over the decades, although the most ...

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Jeanne Loriod, the leading performer on an electronic instrument used in film scores from “Lawrence of Arabia” to “Mars Attacks!” and in many symphonic works to produce mysterious glassy tones and ...

[Ville] loves the sound of an ondes martenot and decided to build his own. No, it’s not made of vacuum tubes like a 1920s original, this one is made out of a cheap, off-the-shelf analog synth and just ...

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Jean Laurendeau lives on an ordinary street in West Montreal. But tucked away in a small second-floor studio in his home is something quite out of the ordinary: a rare musical instrument called the ...

Elmer Bernstein's soundtrack for the original "Ghostbusters" was punctuated by the eerie sounds of an instrument called the Ondes Martenot. When Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis), Ray Stanz (Dan Aykroyd), ...

[Scott Campbell] built a cassette-based synthesizer that sounds exactly like everything you’ve heard before. The sound generation comes straight off cassettes, but the brainbox of this synth varies ...

Performing on the eerie ondes Martenot alongside strings and piano, Christine Ott takes us deep into the uncanny valley While working as a radio operator during the first world war, Maurice Martenot ...

IN “The Exterminating Angel”, Thomas Adès’s new opera, a group of people find themselves mysteriously unable to take their leave from a dinner party. Trapped in their genteel surroundings amid the ...

Combine the expressive power of a cello with a huge sliding range. Add the precision of a piano keyboard, but the sound of a tremulous flute-like hum. Now listen carefully for a delicate, haunting ...