HOW THE THEREMIN CHANGED THE WORLD | Clara Venice | TEDxVaughan

Even though it is one of the oldest electronic instruments, the theremin is
obscure - but it has had a massive impact on the world. In this combination
of talk and performance, pop singer and thereminist Clara Venice
demonstrates why the theremin is a milestone invention, and explains this
magical instrument's tremendous influence on 20th century pop culture.
Pop singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and romantic - Clara Venice is Canada’s Theremin Prodigy. Clara is one of the only people in the world who plays the Theremin as a proper instrument, which adds an emotional and haunting diversity to her music.
Clara composes ethereal futurepop, with whimsical narratives about spacey love connections. Her live performances include a must-see set design with a virtual band of hologlamorous personas, interactive Theremin-controlled lighting, planetary projections, and awe-inspiring landscapes that morph throughout the show.
Clara has performed around the world, opening for renowned acts such as the Violent Femmes and Carole Pope. She joined the Barenaked Ladies on their 2014 Cross-Canada tour, and has been showcased at The One Man Band Festival, Just for Cats Festival, Kazoo Fest, Word on the Street, NXNE, Spur Festival, IngenuityFest, and Beakerhead.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@porculizador]

for those interested in theremin playing, look into carolina eyck. she invented a playing technique that allows playing every note in an octave just by stretching her hand and fingers. she legitimized teaching and playing the theremin and has played on hundreds of venues ranging from solo acts to playing with full orchestra

[@wilsonmachado8695]

Carolina is the best theremin player...

[@jackraves7363]

🙏 no matter what people say, or what YOU think or say: YOU are uniquely special. ☀️ 🙏

[@quillclock]

her outfit cured my colorblindness 👌

[@hayleyscomet3447]

She looks like she is from harajuku. I love it.

[@dudeman_1970]

You’re awesome Clara keep up the great work!

[@wendi-bnkywuv]

It's not just human minds that change things, either, which I find amazing. I find it funny that I am also attracted to animals that ironically sound like the theremin, such as the white handed gibbon, the white cheeked gibbon, and marmoset monkeys) yet even years before I knew these animals sounded like that I was creating alien creatures that sounded like them, or rather a theremin. When I discovered that it made me even more eager to get a theremin. Now I have a theremin...in a house that has 8 keyboards in it...except the one I'm using to type this message.

[@themilennialmilllepede7994]

Lol at the ending to your comment! I'm thrilled that you got one!

[@wendi-bnkywuv]

@@themilennialmilllepede7994 Thanks!

[@kn00tcn]

8:40 camera started leavin' tomorrow

[@victormwape8145]

I first developed my curiosity from the guy from WhoMadeWho live at Abu Simbel, Egypt for Cercle

[@Chad01234]

That moment when you're life is so care-free that you can wake up on a work day and say, "I think I need a theremin."

[@f.u.c8308]

I have been thinking about it for years and i am about to get one. enjoying music is a part of life... call it carefree if you want but actually i have a lot of stress and music helps with that.

[@kn00tcn]

what does that nonsense have to do with anything? humans NEED art, humans have created art since before written history, a musical instrument would enrich pretty much every human that interacts with it on their own terms

[@snowmountain2007]

You need to learn the difference between you're and your.

[@meditationmusicbyalexjackson]

What's work?

[@RenzoColameoIrlanda]

@Simon McCreath How much cost ? Thanks... 🙂

[@fillyfresh]

Aw man, my TV colour tuner broke! Nice playing at the end there!

[@dannyboyz7061]

The iPhone X is going to have a Theremin built in. Finally.

[@rebruisinginart2419]

nothing even close to it

[@JessicaOrban3606]

I also remember the first time I've seen it played and haven't seen it since, nor have I had a chance to see one in person. I've wondered if it would be intuitive to me too. Now my intense curiosity is peeked again! I've got to find one I can try

[@LordFartamor]

From the thumbnail I thought she was a 8 year old girl, but when I clicked on the video, I collapsed.

[@marklazio11]

so you like 8 yr old girls do you ?

[@mameylayalawson9240]

Lord fartamor Your right , from the thumbnail at first glance i thought she was an 80 yo girl too.

[@gk...]

+BBbastard .. Why not? Everyone should do this.

[@billytheseagull]

If you had checked out her audience of peers you'd have realized that she is infact a pervy middle aged man...

[@alvinramsey9372]

I am really diggin that hair. Plum cute that's a good look. And I think I would like to try that instrument. I love the sound of the violin and the cello. And the sounds coming from this are similar if not better. Pretty cool I've never heard of it. Once again great look you pulled it off nicely.

[@Burfferd]

So about ten years a go, I was interduced to the therimin, a live band performing dark side of the moon, featureing the therimin, then I learned and dreemed, and dreamed, then I turned 50 yrs old, about 6 months ago, my first solo public performance Tonite,

[@longdongsilver4719]

Fantastic!

[@aurelius4470]

I love this.

[@cesarvidelac]

I loved her before she actually played the theremin 💘💘💘

[@UNDERSKIES]

Whered I can get this device?

[@CJWarlock]

She's probably a trekkie (because StarTrek opening theme reference), plays theremin, and feels free enough to have nicely multicolored hair, and she sounds passionate about what she talks about. I think the universal language of music would make it possible for us, me and her to have a long chat. (translation for those who don't get metaphors: I like making and listening to variety of music to so we could have an inspiring electronic music jamming).

[@hayleyscomet3447]

CJWarlock i think she may be into japan too because of her style. Its very harajuku.

[@kerrym1456]

I find the theremin to be most intriguing.

[@aleksschurmer]

"Clara Venice is Canada’s Theremin Prodigy. Clara is one of the only people in the world who plays the Theremin as a proper instrument, which adds an emotional and haunting diversity to her music" Sources, please...

[@DrunkenIrishBasterd]

What a great speech ......

[@Piraja]

Lucky Thememini has a scale mode built in.

[@r.nichols4456]

I realize that you're much too young to remember, but probably the most well-known use of this instrument amongst us more "seasoned" individuals is Jimmy Page using the Theramin with Led Zeppelin way back in '69 on the Led Zeppelin 2 album song "Whole Lotta Love". Excellent listening especially if you were (or are) in the right frame of mind.

[@MultiDooder]

Don't forget the beach boys, good vibrations

[@yorganyog]

She said they didn't used

[@themaggattack]

I LOVE the song Whole Lotta Love. I didn't know there was a theramin in it. Now I must go listen again immediately.

[@amphitheatre]

shes lovely

[@mameylayalawson9240]

''mon coeur est un theremin, quand on le touche, il résonne"

[@FranzRobertWILD]

I cannot agree with the thematic around the BIG influence of the Theremin over music. Because, the truth about high pitches notes is linked to slide guitar first. Why? Because this music coming from Hawaii was the first to hit the ear of the public audience and even if the Theremin been invented in the 20's, the best Hawaiian musicians had already over 20/25 years of practice, to the point of being a global and huge musical influence around the world. There is also another instrument having shaped the ear of the musiciens : The musical saw. That being said, the theremin is a beautiful instrument, a wonderful invention !!

[@kn00tcn]

i think the influence was more about the technical side & then the massive influence that moog synths have had, imagine if robert moog wasnt exposed to or built one when he was a kid kind of like transistors or semiconductors, it took decades for the computing influence to happen due to newer computing paradigms, but none of that can exist without the original functional components

[@kimbal1958]

I'm fascinated by the Theremin as i am and Electronics Technicain but i do find it hard to believe its changed the world especially when hardly a soul knows what it is. It's more an extraterrestrial instrument in my opinion. Alien UFO Technology - AUT.

[@kn00tcn]

it was the start of robert moog's career, so THAT is what changed the world, not the theramin itself, but that it existed as a trigger

[@Stoney3K]

There's a different way it changed the world, because it wasn't designed as a musical instrument. The Russians built it under a defense research project for proximity sensing, basically, a very primitive form of radar. And that turned into a musical instrument, with the electronics inside that instrument being used for mass production of AM radio receivers and subsequently anything that did down-mixing of RF for the rest of the century. And the principle of using capacitive sensing for proximity detection to open doors and trigger lights, or localizing a person's finger on, let's say, a screen, is something that is in everybody's pocket today.

[@kimbal1958]

@@Stoney3K Interesting - Thankyou. I can also see the similarity of the Theremin with metal detection devices as well, however no material I've read about it even mentions its link to these other areas of electronics.

[@Stoney3K]

@@kimbal1958 Look up 'heterodyning' which is the principle upon which the instrument works, and is one of the most important building blocks in modern radio circuits.

[@Chilcutte]

>>>1 i used to jave my hair like that 2 She sounds like this audio book reader - Who I know is from CA.

[@DeviliciousNails]

I want to enjoy it, truly, it is such an intriguing instrument, but I just cannot bear the sound of it...

[@richardaversa7128]

Cute, clearly nervous. She has a great musical talent

[@meagain2222]

She is cute,The inventor would love her.

[@aysenkocakabak7703]

wow , she is amazing

[@Smokie181]

everybody just talking about it...can we just hear it?

[@Charzilian]

Most difficult instrument to play? Challenge excepted.

[@KouichiSuchi]

Your hair is so good.Theremin　is so GOOD!!I do want to have this.THIIS can change the worl.

[@joshualawrence4756]

moog audio in toronto is a great store.

[@Leesherwood]

Id'e like to see Clara and Carolina play on stage together.....

[@CJWarlock]

Who spotted the trekkie reference? :)

[@davidaaronartist]

Sounds like xcalibur tale, she is the chosen one!

[@ghostpeppers698]

so cool she is pretty

[@FantasticPyroclastic]

Harley Quinn´s sister

[@gloriasalsman1017]

What got me, was her hair and the way she was dressed, at first I thought she about 12 years old?

[@yorganyog]

There are more instruments where you can play with the hand in the air: Laser Harp and Dj Jogs :p

[@LovSven2011]

Absolutely awesomely quirky woman who is also passionate. :-)

[@marklazio11]

like the outfit!

[@Sploooks]

It's an ok speech, though I think it's slightly narcissistic.

[@stevenglansburg856]

Lucas Wide what do expect from a millennial?

[@pandaantonline390]

She's not really a millenial, considering her to be mid/late twenties to thirties.

[@lopiklop]

What do expect from someone wearing that?

[@Chilcutte]

Lucas Wide When she is quoting what others are saying its not - all TED talks are* because people must establish their status to an audience that may not know them. Unless you knew about who she was WHY would she be an Expert? thats something that ted talks do better then most* I mean with No introduction and no red arrows in thumb nails getting millions of views on a large number of videos featuring diffrent people in many places and so often they have ti have something of a Formul and I think what they look for is that voice of authority.

[@MarsTheBar9]

what do i expect from someone wearing that? a quirky person with a cool speech. i enjoyed it a lot. id like to see some of you do what she does lmao

[@bennodebruyn8290]

First of all, there is no constant in her play, no notes, no melody. There are newly developed techniques, there is people that acutally are complimented with an entire orchestra

[@mameylayalawson9240]

Hawaiian air guitarr!

[@BeachBoy-yo8vs]

Pretty sure Good Vibrations HAD a theremin

[@VelvetCondoms]

It didn't. It had a Tannerin. The Tannerin sounds similar to the Theremin and was designed to emulate the sound of the Theremin with a different playing technique.

[@Stoney3K]

Nope, the Good Vibrations lick was played with a "Tannerin", which was an analog synthesizer with a ribbon controller built to sound like a theremin.

[@OSiE_3150]

i want one ._.

[@alanmclean3292]

Plays better air guitar than I can.

[@frantisekzverina473]

I wish I could have heard her music before i saw her

[@acyutanandadas1326]

That Poppy's granny

[@johnwood551]

I hope she plays better than she gives speeches.

[@MajidFouladpour]

Wouldn't "How the Theremin changed *my* world" have been a less self-centered title?

[@SNYPASTYLZ]

She looks like a Max Hardcore model.

[@aeropilot4419]

Hey don’t be mean 😒

[@ponderwonder8125]

Well damn.

[@hibrydsart5403]

Who hurt her?

[@MarsTheBar9]

who hurt you?

[@berobujanovi4331]

When the rainbow fell on her head

[@nicosogrecos]

Something quite not right with this,and yet it is serious video.

[@tornoutlaw]

Is that a moustache-tattoo beneath her right knee?

[@wibbledee]

good spot! Movember is to raise awareness of prostate cancer by growing a moustache during the month of November. It's obviously a little difficult as a woman though!

[@tornoutlaw]

Thank you for the explanation.

[@bloodyliar]

Identikit 'wacky' person

[@Cypeq]

I have hard time understanding that someone with glowing yellow outfit with pink puddles on it and rainbow hair can have something interesting to say.

[@MarsTheBar9]

your comment contradicts itself lol sounds like you're just a boring person

[@f.u.c8308]

why? why wouldn't they?

[@GeorgePaulSnap6]

Why she's dressed like that? o_O

[@quasarsphere]

Because that's how she wants to dress.

[@georgerose1315]

Why not?

[@aeropilot4419]

Sne’s a kidult

[@stefanw2500]

So I think she stood too close to that thing. I don't like the screech sounds it makes, move back a little then it would have been enjoyable. I think.

[@WarrioRAbsolutE]

Looks like a youngthroats. com model! :P

[@annagreiner5167]

I love the theremin but not the concept she’s talking about with the mind. It’s law of attraction and it’s dangerous. Don’t fall for it.

[@noahfenech8196]

so self centred