At The Waterfront. On the Carousel. Organ Grinding.

When I was in Dallas on my 4th US tour, my virtuoso vibraphonist friend and sometimes collaborator Nigel Newton invited me to a jam session where I became thoroughly enchanted with the theremin, an instrument that seemed to be made for my intuitive hand gestures and deep-rooted love for evolving, textural sounds.

So when Dave Ruder at Make Music Alliance contacted me about taking on a mass appeal event for Make Music New York this year, I had my heart set on bringing together a large number of theremin players to debut a piece I had begun imagining that rare night jamming in Dallas.

“At The Waterfront. On the Carousel. Organ Grinding.” is a stasis-oriented, minimal piece composed for 12 thereminis (Moog’s midi, pitch-correcting, and option-loaded version of the theremin). The debut performance took place at FDR Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island as a MMNY 2015 mass appeal event. Special thank you to Moog for supplying the thereminis.

Theremini Players:
Nick Post
Peter DeMaio
Will Forthman
Anthony Jay Ptak
Michael Evans
Lauren Diehlmann
Cornelius Loy
Lorenz Fish
Rafael Carrasquillo
Andrew MacLarty
Georgiana Mitrus
Sydney Viles
Alexa Dexa

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