Re: Nine Inch Nails

["Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 JLuvzMusyk at aol_com wrote:

> > 2) Noise (in my opinion) can be musical.
>
> ok, this is the really interesting question.  i think that noise *can*
> be musical.  it definitely has the potential to be musical.

Does Spike Jones count?  :)

> there is also a weird instrument called the theriman, (i know that is
> misspelled, but i can't find it on the internet and i have no other way
> of discovering it's true spelling...sorry.  :( ) which played the high
> *vocal* part in _the lion sleeps tonight_.  it's really really
> strange...i've played it.

That would be "theremin".  This instrument was used in the soundtracks to
a lot of scifi movies, e.g. _Forbidden Planet_:

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/207/forbidden_planet_soundtrac.html

Check out also the Beach Boys' 'Good Vibrations', etc.

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