Calder Plays Theremin, by Dorit Chrysler

Calder Plays Theremin

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1.	Calder Plays Theremin Side A 08:51	lyrics
"Calder, the iconic American sculptor and mobilist once said, “The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe. . . . the idea of detached bodies floating in space.” Leon Theremin, the pioneering inventor of the only musical instrument played without physical contact, offered music through the “free movement of the hands in space.” For Berlin-based composer, sound artist, and thereminist, Dorit Chrysler, those ideas cried out to be united in a posthumous collaboration by these two men. The theoretical synergy between Calder’s ever-changing mobiles, turning and shifting endlessly through the air, and Theremin’s antennas, ready to receive and translate into music the stimulus of any nearby moving object in the air, was irresistible. Chrysler conceived of a kind of music of the spheres—Calder’s heavenly bodies orbiting within the electromagnetic fields of Theremin’s space control instruments, setting in motion a sort of Rube Goldberg machine that composes music as it goes." Excerpt of Liner Notes by Albert Glinsky (composer, Author of Leon Theremin, Bob Moog)
2.	Calder Plays Theremin - Side B 09:54	info
3.	Binaural Bonus Track - Side A 08:21
4.	Binaural Bonus Track Side B 09:54

Read more about Chrysler and the composition in the MoMA magazine:
www.moma.org/magazine/articles/671

released February 23, 2023

Dorit Chrysler Berlin, New York

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