Editing Theremin (section)

== Uses ==
[[File:Theremin in Musical Instrument Museum.jpg|thumb|right|[[RCA]] AR-1264 Theremin in [[Musical Instrument Museum (Phoenix)|Musical Instrument Museum]], Phoenix, Arizona]]

=== Concert music ===
The first orchestral composition written for theremin was {{ill|Andrei Pashchenko|de|Andrei Filippowitsch Paschtschenko|ru|Пащенко, Андрей Филиппович|lt=Andrei Pashchenko's}} ''Symphonic Mystery'', which premiered in 1924.<ref>{{cite web |title=Good Vibrations: The Story of the Theremin|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/goodvibrations.shtml|date=21 October 2004|publisher=[[BBC Radio 4]]|access-date=5 May 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220501151138/https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/goodvibrations.shtml |archive-date=1 May 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> However, most of the sheet music was lost after its second performance.<ref>{{cite web |title= |script-title=ru:Сегодня нужно становиться 'человеками эпохи Возрождения'|trans-title=Today we need to become 'Renaissance men'|url=https://whitehall.spbstu.ru/media/news/culture/segodnya-nuzhno-stanovitsya-chelovekami-epokhi-vozrozhdeniya/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220501151814/https://whitehall.spbstu.ru/media/news/culture/segodnya-nuzhno-stanovitsya-chelovekami-epokhi-vozrozhdeniya/ |archive-date=1 May 2022 |access-date=1 May 2022 |website=whitehall.spbstu.ru|publisher=Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University |language=ru}}</ref>

Other concert composers who have written for theremin include [[Bohuslav Martinů]],<ref name="mr">{{Cite web|url=http://www.moderecords.com/catalog/076theremin.html|title=Lydia Kavina Music from the Ether|publisher=Mode Records|access-date=16 April 2010|archive-date=21 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121180658/http://www.moderecords.com/catalog/076theremin.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Percy Grainger]],<ref name="mr" /> [[Christian Wolff (composer)|Christian Wolff]],<ref name="mr" /> [[Joseph Schillinger]],<ref name="mr" /> [[Moritz Eggert]],<ref name="discogs">{{Discogs release|id=1025250|name=Barbara Buchholz / Lydia Kavina / Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin – Touch! Don't Touch! – Works for Theremin}}. [[WERGO]] 2014</ref> [[Iraida Yusupova]],<ref name="discogs" /> [[Jorge Antunes (composer)|Jorge Antunes]],<ref name="mr" /> Vladimir Komarov,<ref name="mr" /> [[Anis Fuleihan]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Fuleihan-Anis.htm|title=Anis Fuleihan (Composer, Arranger)|date=2007-06-10|website=bach-cantatas.com|access-date=5 May 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8019068--ionisation-1927-1945|title=''Ionisation 1927–1945'' (various artists)|publisher=Symposium|id=SYMPCD1253|access-date=2025-05-05|via=Presto Music}}</ref> and [[Fazıl Say]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.carolinaeyck.com/theremin-and-orchestra|title=Theremin and Orchestra|website=[[Carolina Eyck]]|access-date=5 May 2025}}</ref>

[[Edgard Varèse]] completed the composition "Equatorial" for two theremin cellos and percussion in 1934. His work was a stated influence throughout the career of [[Frank Zappa]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schröder |first1=Daniel |title=Frank Zappa – the Composer |publisher=Büchner-Verlag |year=2017 |isbn=9783941310865 |location=Marburg}}</ref> who also composed for theremin.<ref name=Hayward>{{cite journal |last1=Hayward |first1=Philip |title=Danger! Retro-Affectivity! The Cultural Career of the Theremin |journal=[[Convergence (journal)|Convergence]]|date=1997 |volume=3 |issue=4 |page=42 |doi=10.1177/135485659700300405 |s2cid=144683752}}</ref>

Maverick composer Percy Grainger chose to use ensembles of four or six theremins (in preference to a string quartet) for his two earliest experimental ''Free Music'' compositions (1935–1937) because of the instrument's complete 'gliding' freedom of pitch.<ref>Gillies, Malcolm; Pear, David (2007–2011). [http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/11596 'Grainger, Percy']. In ''Grove Music Online''. Oxford Music Online. Retrieved 2011-09-21.{{Subscription required}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Lewis |first=Thomas P. |title=A source guide to the music of Percy Grainger |publisher=Pro-Am Music Resources |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-912483-56-6 |location=White Plains |chapter=Chapter 4: Program notes |chapter-url=http://www.percygrainger.org/prognot4.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812160926/http://www.percygrainger.org/prognot4.htm |archive-date=2020-08-12 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Musician [[Jean-Michel Jarre]] used the instrument in his concerts [[List of Jean-Michel Jarre concerts#Oxygen in Moscow|Oxygène in Moscow]] in 1997 and [[Space of Freedom]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.jeanmicheljarre.com/live-o-graphy/gdansk-2005 |title=Gdansk – 2005 |publisher=Jeanmicheljarre.com |date=2009-05-20 |access-date=2012-03-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224102550/http://www.jeanmicheljarre.com/live-o-graphy/gdansk-2005 |archive-date=2012-02-24 }}</ref> in [[Gdańsk]] in 2005, providing also a short history of Leon Theremin's life.

The five-piece [[Spaghetti Western Orchestra]] use a theremin as a replacement for Edda Dell'Orso's vocals in their interpretation of [[Ennio Morricone]]'s "Once Upon a Time in the West".<ref>{{Cite web|title=BBC Proms Review: Spaghetti Western Orchestra|url=http://www.i-flicks.net/blog/49-features/2686-bbc-proms-review-spaghetti-western-orchestra|publisher=i-flicks.net|access-date=14 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121028194909/http://www.i-flicks.net/blog/49-features/2686-bbc-proms-review-spaghetti-western-orchestra|archive-date=2012-10-28|url-status=dead}}</ref>

A large-scale theremin concerto is [[Kalevi Aho]]'s Concerto for Theremin and Chamber Orchestra "Eight Seasons" (2011), written for [[Carolina Eyck]].<ref>[https://www.carolinaeyck.com/kalevi-aho "Kalevi Aho: 'Eight Seasons' – Concerto for Theremin and Chamber Orchestra (2011)"], carolinaeyck.com</ref>

Other notable contemporary theremin players include [[Pamelia Kurstin]],<ref>{{AllMusic|title=Pamela Kurstin|class=artist|id=mn0000956094|author=Steve Leggett}}</ref> [[Peter Theremin]], [[Natasha Theremin]], [[Katica Illényi]].<ref name="Katica Illenyi">{{Cite web|last1=Katica Illenyi|title=All-Metal-Stars|url=http://www.vivaldimetalproject.com/katica-illenyi-theremin/|publisher=Vivaldi Metal Project|access-date=14 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215021446/http://www.vivaldimetalproject.com/katica-illenyi-theremin/|archive-date=2017-02-15|url-status=dead}}</ref> and [[Lydia Kavina]],<ref name="Kavina">{{AllMusic|title=Lydia Kavina Biography|class=artist|id=mn0000028785}}</ref> Dutch classical musician [[Thorwald Jørgensen]] has been described as "one of the most important exponents of classical music on the theremin".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://radio.uchile.cl/2014/11/06/el-instrumento-que-no-se-toca-tiene-su-propio-festival-en-gam/|title=El instrumento que no se toca tiene su propio festival en GAM|trans-title=The instrument that is not played has its own festival at [[Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral|GAM]]|work=Diario Uchile|language=es|publisher=Radio of [[University of Chile]]|date=6 November 2014|access-date=5 May 2025}}</ref> Carolina Eyck started playing the theremin at the age of seven and published the book ''The Art of Playing the Theremin'' in English and German when she was 19{{sfn|Eyck|2006}} and has since played with chamber and symphony orchestras in many countries.

In 2019 in Kobe, Japan, the Matryomin ensemble, a group of 289 theremin players that included Natasha Theremin, Masha Theremin and Peter Theremin, the daughter, granddaughter and great-grandson of the inventor, achieved a [[Guinness world record]] as the largest ensemble of the instrument. The name ''Matryomin'' is a [[portmanteau]] by its inventor of the words ''[[matryoshka]]'' and ''theremin''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Nakamura |first=Kayoko |title=Electronic Rhapsody: Theremin and Matryomin |publisher=CUNY Academic Works |page=5 |year=2018 |location=New York |url=https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/261 |access-date=2024-03-26}}</ref> The theremin concerto "Dancefloor With Pulsing" by the French composer [[Régis Campo]] was written for [[Carolina Eyck]] and premiered with the [[Brussels Philharmonic]] in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brussels Philharmonic plays Zorn, Zappa, Campo & Constant (Openingsconcert) |url=https://www.arsmusica.be/nl/events/brussels-philharmonic-plays-zorn-zappa-campo-constant-openingsconcert/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410104319/https://www.arsmusica.be/nl/events/brussels-philharmonic-plays-zorn-zappa-campo-constant-openingsconcert/ |archive-date=10 April 2021 |access-date=31 May 2019 |website=A. R. S. Musica}}</ref>

=== Popular music ===
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Theremins and theremin-like sounds started to be incorporated into [[popular music]] from the end of the 1940s (with a series of [[Samuel Hoffman]]/[[Harry Revel]] collaborations)<ref>''Music out of the Moon'', Harry Revel, conducted by Les Baxter, Capitol Records Nr. T390, released 1947</ref> and has continued, with various degrees of popularity, to the present.

[[Lothar and the Hand People]] were the first rock band known to perform live with a theremin in November 1965. In fact, Lothar was the name they gave to their [[Moog Music|Moog]] theremin.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hayward|first=Philip|date=December 1997|title=Danger! Retro-Affectivity!: The Cultural Career of the Theremin|journal=Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies|volume=3|issue=4|pages=28–53|doi=10.1177/135485659700300405|s2cid=144683752}}</ref>

[[The Beach Boys]]' 1966 single "[[Good Vibrations]]"—though it does not technically contain a theremin—is the most frequently cited example of the instrument in pop music. The song actually features a similar-sounding instrument invented by [[Paul Tanner]] called an [[Electro-Theremin]].{{sfn|Brend|2005|p=16}} Upon release, the single prompted an unexpected revival in theremins and increased the awareness of [[analog synthesizer]]s.{{sfn|Pinch|Trocco|2009|pp=102–103}} In response to requests by the band, [[Moog Music]] began producing its own brand of [[ribbon controller|ribbon-controlled]] instruments which would mimic the sound of a theremin.{{sfn|Pinch|Trocco|2009|pp=102–103}}

[[Frank Zappa]] also included the theremin on the albums ''[[Freak Out!]]'' (1966) and ''[[We're Only in It for the Money]]'' (1967).<ref name=Hayward />

[[Jimmy Page]] of [[Led Zeppelin]] used a variation of the theremin (pitch antenna only) during performances of "[[Whole Lotta Love]]" and "[[No Quarter (song)|No Quarter]]" throughout the performance history of Led Zeppelin, an extended multi-instrumental solo featuring theremin and bowed guitar in 1977, as well as the soundtrack for ''[[Death Wish II]]'', released in 1982.<ref name="Met2022">{{cite web|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/780211|title=Sonic Wave|year=2022|publisher=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]|access-date=10 October 2022}}</ref>

[[Brian Jones]] of [[the Rolling Stones]] also used the instrument on the group's 1967 albums ''[[Between the Buttons]]'' and ''[[Their Satanic Majesties Request]]''.<ref>[http://online.physics.uiuc.edu/courses/phys498pom/Student_Projects/Spring01/JMehl/Jared_Mehl_Theremin1.pdf A Simple Theremin Project] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100821203958/http://online.physics.uiuc.edu/courses/phys498pom/Student_Projects/Spring01/JMehl/Jared_Mehl_Theremin1.pdf |date=2010-08-21 }}. [[University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign]].</ref>

[[Tesla (band)|Tesla]] guitarist [[Frank Hannon]] used a theremin in the band's song "Edison's Medicine" from the 1991 album ''[[Psychotic Supper]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.soundslikeburns.com/New_Items/zep.html|title = Burns Zep Theremin}}</ref> Hannon is also seen using the instrument in the song's music video at the 2:40 mark.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/-2zwBRa0YhA Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20100612184044/http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=-2zwBRa0YhA Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2zwBRa0YhA| title = Tesla – Edison's Medicine | via=YouTube| date = 16 June 2009 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

The Lothars are a Boston-area band formed in early 1997 whose CDs have featured as many as four theremins played at once – a first for pop music.<ref>{{Cite news
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Although credited with a {{sic|"Thereman"}} on the track "Mysterons" from the album ''Dummy'', [[Portishead (band)|Portishead]] actually used a [[monophonic synthesizer]] to achieve theremin-like effects, as confirmed by [[Adrian Utley]], who is credited as playing the instrument;<ref>{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Jonathan |date=June 1995 |title=Adrian Utley: Portishead Sound Shaper |url=https://www.soundonsound.com/people/adrian-utley-portishead-sound-shaper |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=[[Sound on Sound]]}}</ref> on the songs "Half Day Closing", "Humming", "The Rip", and "Machine Gun" he has actually used a custom-made theremin.<ref>{{cite web |date=2008-04-01 |title=Auction of No 1 Electronics theremin, A. Utley. |url=http://www.spheremusic.com/Bargaindtl.asp?Item=5859print=yes |access-date=2018-08-18 |publisher=spheremusic.com}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023}}</ref>

[[Page McConnell]], keyboardist of the American rock band [[Phish]], plays the theremin on rare occasions. His last notable performance was on 6 August 2017, the final evening of the band's 13-night residency at [[Madison Square Garden]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-live-reviews/phishs-bakers-dozen-residency-breaking-down-all-13-blissful-nights-197436/|title=Phish's 'Baker's Dozen' Residency: Breaking Down All 13 Blissful Nights|last=Jarnow|first=Jesse|date=2017-08-07|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-27}}</ref>

When [[Simon and Garfunkel]] performed their song "[[The Boxer]]" during a concert at Madison Square Garden in December 2003, they utilized a theremin. The original recording of the song had featured a steel guitar and a piccolo trumpet in unison in the solo interlude, but for this performance, thereminist Rob Schwimmer played the solo.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/pMrYvFTfIGI Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131214212044/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMrYvFTfIGI Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMrYvFTfIGI&ab_channel=MarcMacLellan| title = Simon & Garfunkel – The Boxer (from Old Friends) | via=YouTube| date = 14 December 2012 }}{{cbignore}}</ref><!-- 
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=== Film music ===
Russian composer [[Dmitri Shostakovich]] was one of the first to incorporate parts for the theremin in [[Orchestra|orchestral pieces]], including a use in his [[Film score|score]] for the film {{transliteration|ru|[[Odna]]}} ({{langx|ru|[[:ru:Одна (фильм)|Одна]]}}, 1931, [[Leonid Trauberg]] and [[Grigori Kozintsev]]). While the theremin was not widely used in [[classical music]] performances, the instrument found great success in many motion pictures, notably, ''[[Spellbound (1945 film)|Spellbound]]'', ''[[The Red House (film)|The Red House]]'', ''[[The Lost Weekend]]'' (all three written by [[Miklós Rózsa]], the composer who pioneered the use of the instrument in Hollywood scores), ''[[The Spiral Staircase (1946 film)|The Spiral Staircase]]'', ''[[Rocketship X-M]]'', ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still]]'', ''[[The Thing from Another World]]'', ''[[Castle in the Air (film)|Castle in the Air]]'', and ''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Brend|first=Mark|title=The Sound of Early Sci-Fi: Samuel Hoffman's Theremin|url=https://reverb.com/news/the-sound-of-early-sci-fi-samuel-hoffmans-theremin|website=Reverb|date=16 June 2021|access-date=19 March 2024}}</ref> The theremin is played and identified as such in the [[Jerry Lewis]] movie ''[[The Delicate Delinquent]]''. The theremin is prominent in the score for the 1956 short film ''[[A Short Vision]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkhNED3-mnI | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211031/BkhNED3-mnI| archive-date=2021-10-31 | url-status=live|title=A Short Vision |via=YouTube | date=19 May 2009}}{{cbignore}}</ref> which was aired on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'' the same year that it was used by the Hungarian composer [[Mátyás Seiber]]. More recent appearances in film scores include ''[[Monster House (film)|Monster House]]'', ''[[Ed Wood (film)|Ed Wood]]'', ''[[The Machinist]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361862/fullcredits |title=Full cast and crew for Maquinista, El |access-date=2007-09-01 |publisher=IMDb }}</ref> and ''[[The Electrical Life of Louis Wain]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10687506/fullcredits |title=Full cast and crew for The Electrical Life of Louis Wain |access-date=2023-02-20 |publisher=IMDb }}</ref> (2021), (last three featuring [[Lydia Kavina]]), as well as ''[[First Man (film)|First Man]]'' (2018).

A theremin was not used for the soundtrack of ''[[Forbidden Planet]]'', for which [[Bebe and Louis Barron]] built disposable oscillator circuits and a [[Ring modulation|ring modulator]] to create the electronic tonalities used in the film.<ref name="MovieDiva-Forbidden-Planet">{{cite web
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Los Angeles–based thereminist Charles Richard Lester is featured on the soundtrack of ''[[Monster House (film)|Monster House]]''<ref>{{IMDb title|tt0385880|Monster House|(2006)}}{{better source needed|date=May 2025}}</ref> and has performed the US premiere of [[Gavriil Popov (composer)|Gavriil Popov's]] 1932 score for ''Komsomol – Patron of Electrification'' with the [[Los Angeles Philharmonic]] and [[Esa-Pekka Salonen]] in 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.laphil.com/music/piece_detail.cfm?id=2377 |title=L. A. Philharmonic concert details |publisher=Laphil.com |access-date=2012-03-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090917010157/http://www.laphil.com/music/piece_detail.cfm?id=2377 |archive-date=2009-09-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In Lenny Abrahamson's 2014 film, ''[[Frank (film)|Frank]]'', Clara, the character played by [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]], plays the theremin in a band named Soronprfbs.<ref>[[Anthony Lane|Lane, Anthony]]. [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/hide-seek "Hide and Seek"], ''[[The New Yorker]]'', August 25, 2014.</ref>

=== Theatre and performing arts ===
[[Charlie Rosen (musician)|Charlie Rosen]], orchestrator of the [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] [[musical theatre|musical]] ''[[Be More Chill]]'', credits the show as being the first on Broadway to have a theremin in its band.<ref>Ruthie Feinberg, [https://www.playbill.com/article/4-secrets-you-never-knew-about-broadways-be-more-chill "4 Secrets You Never Knew About Broadway's Be More Chill"], ''[[Playbill]]'', March 11, 2019.</ref>

=== Television ===
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* In May 2007, the [[White Castle (restaurant)|White Castle]] American hamburger restaurant chain introduced a television advertisement<ref>{{YouTube | id=JlmxvkfpHhQ | title=White Castle Ad on YouTube}}</ref> centered around a live theremin performance by musician Jon Bernhardt of the band ''The Lothars.'' It is the only known example of a theremin performance being the focus of an advertisement.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Laban |first=Linda |title=The geek who captured the Castle |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |pages=C4, C8 |date=7 May 2007 |url=http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2007/05/07/the_geek_who_captured_the_castle/}}</ref>
* Celia Sheen plays the theremin in the ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'' series.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/03/08/clara-rockmore-the-story-of-the-theremin-virtuoso-who-inspired-l/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/03/08/clara-rockmore-the-story-of-the-theremin-virtuoso-who-inspired-l/ |archive-date=2022-01-11 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Clara Rockmore: Story of the theremin virtuoso who inspired Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones|first=Cara|last=McGoogan|date=8 March 2016|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* In October 2008, comedian, musician, and theremin enthusiast [[Bill Bailey]] played a theremin during his performance of Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, which has subsequently been televised. He had previously also written an article,<ref>{{cite news|author=[[Bill Bailey]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2004/oct/15/4 |title=Weird Science|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=2004-10-16|access-date=2025-05-05}}</ref> presented a radio show<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/goodvibrations.shtml |title=Good Vibrations: The Story of the Theremin|publisher=[[BBC Radio 4]]|date=2004-10-21|access-date=2025-05-05}}</ref> and incorporated the theremin in some of his televised comedy tours.
* Charlie Draper plays the theremin in the soundtrack (written by [[Natalie Holt]]) for TV series ''[[Loki (TV series)|Loki]]'' on [[Disney+]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Davids |first=Brian |date=2021-06-09 |title='Loki' Director Kate Herron on Shooting New 'Avengers: Endgame'-Era Footage |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/loki-avengers-endgame-marvel-disney-1234965274/ |magazine=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |publisher=Lynne Segall |access-date=2021-06-16 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite tweet |first=Charlie |last=Draper |user=charlietheremin |number=1402522822921043968 |title=I'm proud to reveal my #theremin features in @filmmusicholt's stunning soundtrack to #Loki by @iamkateherron and @michaelwaldron. NH's combo of orchestra, electronics, clocks, and Norse instruments is just perfect for our god of mischief's run-in with the time police!}}</ref><ref>{{Cite tweet |first=Natalie |last=Holt |user=filmmusicholt |number=1713683384831037824 |title=Time warping #Loki to the 70's... who knew that a Disco lead line would be so perfect on Theremin? @charlietheremin = bringing his incredible sound world to scores ...also Spanish road trips 💚}}</ref>
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=== Video games ===
* A theremin-inspired tune serves as the theme for the Edison family in the NES port of ''[[Maniac Mansion]]''<ref>{{cite web |last=Fassel |first=Preston |url=https://www.fangoria.com/original/8-bit-terror-maniac-mansion |url-access=subscription |title=8-Bit Terror: 'Maniac Mansion' |website=Fangoria |date=2019-12-23 |access-date=2020-05-08 |archive-date=2020-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220021128/https://www.fangoria.com/original/8-bit-terror-maniac-mansion |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Lydia Kavina]]'s solo theremin is featured on the soundtrack for the 2006 [[MMORPG]] computer game ''[[Soul of the Ultimate Nation]]'', composed by [[Howard Shore]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Conditt |first=Jessica |url=http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/features/ode-to-joystick/68875/ |title=Ode to Joystick |publisher=GameDaily |date=2012-03-08 |access-date=2012-03-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090914032647/http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/features/ode-to-joystick/68875/ |archive-date=14 September 2009 }}</ref>

=== ''The First Theremin Concert for Extraterrestrials'' ===
{{Further|Teen Age Message}}
[[File:Teen Age Message 7 of 8.jpg|right|thumb|Theremin performer Anton Kershenko and his young pupil at the [[Yevpatoria RT-70 radio telescope]] station]]

''The First Theremin Concert for Extraterrestrials'' was the world's first musical [[Messaging to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence|METI]] broadcast dispatched from the Evpatoria deep-space communications complex in Crimea,<ref name=":0">{{cite journal |last1=Zaitsev |first1=A. L. |title=The first musical interstellar radio message |journal=Journal of Communications Technology and Electronics |date=September 2008 |volume=53 |issue=9 |pages=1107–1113 |id={{ProQuest|196352680}} |doi=10.1134/S106422690809012X |s2cid=119435654 }}</ref> and was sent seven years before NASA's [[Across the Universe (message)|Across the Universe message]]. Seven different melodies were transmitted from audio-cassette recordings of the theremin being played by Lydia Kavina, Yana Aksenova, and Anton Kerchenko, all from the Moscow Theremin Center. These seven melodies were:
# "Egress alone I to the Ride" by E. Shashina
# Finale of the [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|9th Symphony by Beethoven]]
# ''[[The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)|The Four Seasons]]'': "Spring" – Allegro by Vivaldi
# "[[Le cygne|The Swan]]" by Saint-Saëns
# "[[Vocalise (Rachmaninoff)|Vocalise]]" by Rachmaninoff
# "[[Summertime (George Gershwin song)|Summertime]]" by Gershwin
# Russian folk song "[[Kalinka (1860 song)|Kalinka]]"
They were played in succession six times over the span of three days from August to September 2001 during the transmission of [[Teen Age Message]], an interstellar radio message.<ref name=":0" />