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The Prepared Theremin

About the Prepared Theremin

The theremin is one of the oldest electronic musical instruments, and the first musical instrument played without being touched.
The Prepared Theremin is a theremin-driven instrument for live performances and improvisations with other musicians.
The idea behind the Prepared Theremin is to use a theremin as a controller to manipulate sounds from a library or recorded in real-time from other musicians.
It has been designed and tailored from an idea by Massimo Simonini, the director of the Angelica cultural center in Bologna.
Please see the Massimo Simonini web page for details and concert dates.

About Spawc

The Prepared Theremin is using Spawc, a software developed by Bruno Zamborlin.

An article about Spawc has been written by:
S. Ferretti, M. Roccetti & B. Zamborlin,
"On SPAWC: Discussion on a Musical Signal Parser and Well-Formed Composer",
Proc. 5th IEEE International Workshop on Networking Issues in Multimedia Entertainment (NIME'08) - 6th IEEE Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2009),
Las Vegas (USA), IEEE Communications Society, January 2009.