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Carolina Eyck, renowned superstar of the theremin
The theremin’s “woo-ooo” sound has haunted music and cinema lovers for years. Carolina Eyck is the world’s best player, but she’s still making sense of it.
It’s the whiplash shriek in the crazy breakdown of Whole Lotta Love, Miss Huang’s instrument of choice during the camping trip in Severance or the trippy wobble in Good Vibrations. The fact that that last example isn’t actually theremin but a soundalike synthesiser only illustrates how entrenched the high-pitched, wide-vibrato, “woo-ooo” sound has become as a signifier of weirdness: a go-to vibe for the modern composer’s quantum leap to Far Out. Airborne liberty and retro-futuristic novelty are both playfully invoked in Hovercraft, a new commission by Sydney composer Holly Harrison which will make its world premiere on Eyck’s tour with Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra in May.
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