Theremin Doctor Who Theme, Lydia Kavina and Radio Science Orchestra, 

I always thought it was invented so the Gov't could show the people accurate ID films of extraterrestrial incursions... _Or Was It?_

I got to hear the Doctor Who theme live in a really intimate setting on a theremin around 2015. It was truly incredible

That and the original Star Trek theme.

​@@BenjaminWirtz. Wait, why was it invented again?

That's like saying the guitar was invented for the sole purpose of getting people to say "You should play wonderwall with that".

My favourite version is from the concert at worldcon 2014 (although I might be biased, because that was the first time I saw this instrument, and saw it live...)

Instantly recognizable.

I don't even like Dr Who, but the theme is a work of genius. I think it was made using purely tapes of manipulated sound. No instruments involved

X-Files theme is the best for me, but I like Doctor Who as well.

Was about to comment that!! ​@@Funtoers

not bad for something invented in 1920

It can do classical too - see Katice Illenyi.

Noice

Good to see that they're keeping it in the family.

I'm pretty sure Murray used a thermin like instrument for the Series 8 theme actually :)

Cloister Productions I read everywhere that it was a bunch of oboes playing the melody.

It doesn't sound like Dr. Who, it's too techno.

@@spoods4628 I thought the same thing. The original 60s theme didn't sound anything like this yes it was a theremin and yes she did have similar feeling of Doctor Who and she did have the basic toon but she use different pitches then weren't actually used in the original 60s series and she made it sound more techno as you mentioned and she played it too fast as well and she didn't use enough high pitch in her song and she didn't use the right what's the word she didn't play in the same key if you will as the original theremin toon for Doctor Who was played in in the 60s. but it had a definite feel of Doctor Who but it just wasn't the exact I was actually expecting her to play the original but it doesn't mean that she played a bad toon it just wasn't what I was expecting on the Doctor Who level but I saw her in another video teaching how to use the theremin and she's definitely good there's no doubt in that and don't get me wrong I'm not downing on her abilities to play the theremin because she can definitely play and she was even giving tips between the two theramin and theremini. she would walking back-and-forth between what sounds a normal theremin would reduce as opposed to a theremini. end you could definitely tell that she knows her stuff I just didn't think that that sounded much like the original Doctor Who theme song and it really didn't do a whole lot to add the psychedelic music video in the background that really didn't make up for the fact it just kinda still although you could tell that she was playing Doctor Who and it made it obvious having that video but she still lacked in sounding like the original unless she was trying to sound different but still keep notes of the original in the background . But if she was trying to go for the original 60s thing she lacked that she has the right toon down but she's in the wrong key if she's trying to be authentic unless she was intentionally trying to sound unique and take her own spin on that tune which is very possible but it's also hard to tell if she was in the wrong key or if she was trying to put her own spin on the toon but I personally think that I don't like her own spin if that's what she was doing I would prefer her to stick to the original keep it simple and don't try to overcomplicate it. I actually wanted it to be as exact as possible just because I had never seen it done before.I heard about theremin and what it does and I heard that the Doctor Who theme was done on a theremin or a synthesizer that can make a theremin sound. Probably was more that than the actual theremin just because the other instrumental sounds in the background the whole "doodoodoo-da-doodoodoo woo-wa-woooooo-woo-wa-wooooo" was probably ALL done on just one instrument. that makes it so much easier when you have a instrument that can play multiple sounds cutting down the time and the people that it's gonna require to play the music especially for the fact that if you know anything about the original show it was done in a broom closet sized stage. They weren't given a big enough budget to have a bigger space and even if they did nobody would give them a bigger space because everybody thought it was kind of a joke in the beginning. Nobody really took the show seriously at first so they had to do with what they had so it probably was played on one instrument that can do multiple sound making it easier not to have 80 people trying to get the tune right when they have so little space to produce the music. I assume it was probably done on one instrument probably a synthesizer that can make a theremin sound I mean after I saw the movie of how Doctor Who came about it makes me think that maybe they probably used that because it's easier on the budget easier not to have so many people etc.

Sounds like something outa the "Doctor Who Unbound" series to me for some reason

oof

He did now but they didn't call Lydia ;-;

@@99dazemusic didnt age well

Я слышала что тема доктора кто и была сыграна на терменвоксе

@@artellia no it was hand-assembled from generated electronic tones and sampled sounds by Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Good thing you like it Doc.

All the times i´ve seen her playing that song live it isn´t a theremin there, only she making the noises in a microphone filtered through a synth

I confirm it sounds like a theremin but waht you hear is her voice passing through a vintage korg ms20

A. Katherine Suetterlin it’s something with radio waves, and you play it by moving your fingers between those waves

The theremin produces an electromagnetic field and it works by detecting changes in this field. The rod on her right controls the pitch and the loop on her left controls the volume

Originally played on a theremin

@@polomordha actually that is a misconception, the theme was actuality created using magnetic tape recording and splicing them together www.dwtheme.com/derbyshire/1963

@@polomordha NO! (See other posts. The 1962 original did not use a Theremin - and according to some other posts here, later versions didn't either, though they did use synths.)

Check out the Theremini, it has a setting to stop the notes at scale values, is 299 dollars..

I have theremin for sell. Untouched!

As opposed to her clothes and her motorcycle? 🙂

You forgot to say please.

liwiathan it's really sound waves and electrons

Pirate Candy Sci-fi music

liwiathan meh

Liwiathan - almost . . . the instrument senses the positions of the musician's hands - one for volume, the other for pitch. Watch "A Brief History of the Theremin | Albert Glinsky" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YNoR-SR5t1s.html

@@piratecandy6310 technically in elector-magnetic fields that are being played

Bender Graph - the Beach Boys used one in 1966 in "Good Vibrations" . . . that's the only pop music I can recall with a theremin, a strange instrument.

it is a tVox tour, Russian model from 2001. Unfortunately not in production any more

@@tvoxmania your husband used to build those is that right ???

@@MrNicovdw yes, that s right. It was 20 years ago.

i agree, what is it?

He's not playing anything - just drying his hands ;)

ftumschk wait.. you're right, he is drying his hands!

LOL!

Jared Haught He is summoning Satan

Haha just like Sheldon cooper. This would be something he would do

The shape of the two aerials is pretty conventional, if one can say that of such a rare instrument; they look much the same as the one Katice Illenyi plays. Katice's one has knobs along one side and is boxy; the one here looks as if it has controls on a sloping top.

maybe they where expensive, they where a fairly underfunded division of the BBC, plus theremins are tough to learn

@@rendratvandonkereschrijver2912 Moog sold theremin kits back before they started making synthesizers.

+LangBellsChannel It didn't. Delia Derbyshire composed it back in 1963 and used a combination of oscillators and tape loops that were cut and spliced together. The song was literally hacked together by splicing bits of audio tape together after manipulating the sounds of single-string instruments, white noise and the harmonic waveforms of test-tune oscillators. It was one of the earliest examples of electronic music and pre-dates the commercial availability of synthesizers.

FYI, although indeed a theremin was not used in the original Dr Who theme (nor any since) this was not actually because it didn't exist. Leon Theremin introduced the instrument in the 1920s, and it acquired much wider awareness when it was highlighted in the incidental music for the 1951 movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still". (Alas, this led to the instrument being massively overused in cheap sci-fi movies, which may have lead the Radiophonics Workshop to specifically avoid it -- by 1963, the theremin was pretty much a sci-fi cliche.) It's true that nothing that would be properly called a synthesizer existed in 1963. The theremin did, though, and a few other things, mostly attempts to electrify existing instruments (electronic wind controllers, electric guitars and violins and things, the Hammond Organ, etc). Serious electronic musicians, like the folks at the Workshop, were pretty much inventing as they went.

No, the original was made with signal generators and _lots_ of recording tape. You might be thinking of one of the later versions. (might _of_ ? had _of_ ?)

@@G6JPG I think you are right with the signal generators. I remember watching a doco on the man who originally put it all together. Behind him he had all the hardware he originally used and tried to recreate the song from scratch in front of the camera. The signals were tuned then pumped through his synths and then keyboards. Then he had to layer everything through the tapes.

@@theghost6412 The documentary you saw must have been on someone who made one of the later versions, as the original 1962 realisation of Ron Grainer's theme was by a woman, Delia Derbyshire, who used only signal generators (and I think a one-string instrument), recorded on tape and speeded up, slowed down, possibly played backwards, and the like; she didn't _have_ synthesizers. Partly because they didn't really exist in 1962, and partly because the BBC Radiophonic Workshop where she worked always had a limited budget (I remember reading or hearing that the archive department once put out a list of equipment they were looking for in the "have you still got one of these in a cupboard somewhere", and the BBCRW were still using a lot of the listed items!).

@@G6JPG interesting, I'll definitely check it out and have a look cheers

@@theghost6412 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xkIEkLww3lg.html and ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qsRuhCflRyg.html (old and young Delia, respectively).