Developer & synthesist Linus Åkesson shared his arrangement of Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod) for the Qweremin.
The Qweremin is described as a ‘QWERTY theremin’. It’s played by using the right hand on the keyboard to play individual notes, and the left hand to control volume and vibratro.
Here’s his intro to the Qweremin:
You can find out more about the Qweremin QWERTY Theremin at his site.
The video captures a live performance on the Midnight Special by Billy Preston, Malcolm Cecil & Robert Margouleff on The Original New Timbral Orchestra, aka T.O.N.T.O.
Cecil & Margouleff were some of the first musicians to bring modular synthesizer to popular music. They produced the classic albums of Stevie Wonder, and worked with variety of musicians, ranging from Billy Preston to Ravi Shankar.
Watch the video and share your thoughts on it in the comments!
Composer + synthesist Marius Leicht shared this live performance of Nachtblau, featuring the sound of the Oberheim Matrix 1000 synthesizer.
“The piece Nachtblau has gone full circle,” he notes. “I originally wrote it as a synthesizer piece, when I got GForce Software’s Oberheim Eight Voice emulation, OB-E for review.”
“While recording my first solo album, Weltmaschine, I transformed it into a piano piece and recorded it with Nils Frahm’s Zwicki Piano at his studio in Funkhaus, Berlin.”
“As there is not always a piano available when I play live shows, I rarely played that piece on stage. But since it gets requested a lot, I now went on to create a sound on my Oberheim Matrix 1000 which can be played very nuanced in dynamics and color, so I can do this expressive piece justice.”
