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February 10, 2012

Mr. Largebeat

Rock 'n' roll magic

by James M. Manheim

posted 8/20/2009

James "Largebeat" Gertz plays the Theremin, the instrument heard in the soundtrack to various science-fiction movies of the 1950s (most famously The Day the Earth Stood Still) and imitated by a vocalist in the theme to the original Star Trek series. Invented in the 1920s by Russian scientist Lev Termen, known in the West as Leon Theremin, the

 
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