Editor’s note: Allan Maurer is a contributor to WRAL TechWire and is one of its cofounders. ASHEVILLE – Moog Music, which builds its instruments in Asheville, is updating the instrument that inspired ...

One hundred years ago — when urban architecture was straining skyward, the radio was becoming a household item, and great strides were being made in aviation technology — Russian physicist Lev ...

One of the quirkiest, most misunderstood instruments turns 100 this year. The theremin makes a sound you instantly recognize, but most of us don't know anything about its history -- or its potential.

If you've ever heard the eerie electronic music at the beginning of a 1950s science fiction movie (The Day the Earth Stood Still, for example), then you've heard a theremin. Invented in Russia in the ...

It wouldn’t be October without Halloween, and it wouldn’t be Halloween without some spooky music. There’s no instrument spookier than a Theremin, which also happens to be one of the world’s first ...

During Armen Ra’s last concert at the Gershwin Hotel, a concert audience sat transfixed at the sight onstage. Wearing heavy makeup and a simple black evening dress, the Armenian Mr. Ra stood in front ...

(CBS News) Nothing says Halloween quite like the weird sounds of the Theremin . . . tricky to play, but a treat when done well. With Faith Salie now we'll give it a listen: It just might be world's ...

The sound it produces is beautiful, unsettling, haunting and unmistakable … resembling, as one critic famously said, "a cello lost in a dense fog, crying because it does not know how to get home." He ...

We’ll never know what Clara Rockmore — commemorated in today’s Google Doodle for being a pioneer in electronic music in the 1930s — would have thought of today’s most popular musicians. But Diplo, ...

The godfather of electronic music was also a darling of the New York social scene, a gulag prisoner and the man behind one of the most ingenious spy devices ever created. Imagine a UFO descending from ...

The same year, Rózsa took a similar tack with the Alfred Hitchcock film Spellbound, this time trying to let the audience experience the alienating effects of psychosis—and of dealing with psychotics.