History Main / Theremin

* Converge used this extensively on their ''Jane Doe'' album, to genuinely heart-stopping effect.

* ''TheLostWeekend'', the earliest use in a film score from 1945, about a alcoholic's weekend-long binge.

* Used to represent altered reality in ''eXistenZ'' and ''TheMachinist''

* The ''MidsomerMurders'' theme uses it, to great, creepy effect.

* {{Ghostbusters}} features theremin pretty heavily throughout the soundtrack, particularly when the Busters are dealing with hauntings or generally weird stuff.

* The melody of the theme of ''StarTrek'' was played on a theremin (with an accompanying choir).

* CaptainBeefheart notably used one on "Electricity" and "Autumn's Child".

* In the various musical tracks that accompany {{Homestuck}}, [[BigBad Jack Noir]] is often leitmotifed by what sounds like a theremin.

* Used in Tim Burton's bio-pic EdWood, to recreate the theme music from Plan9FromOuterSpace.

The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin theremin]] (aka termenvox) is an electronic instrument developed in the 1930s. The player waves his hands near its antennas, using the electrical conductance of the body to alter the sound. It creates a very pure tone, and sounds like a lower-pitched version of someone tuning in an old-fashioned radio to a test signal. It's essentially a primitive analog synthesizer with an UnusualUserInterface. In essence, it's a RealLife {{Xenophone}}.

* The opening to ''DoctorWho'' doesn't use one, but evokes the sound. The musicians in this case actually cobbled some parts from the technical department and ''built'' a synthesizer to simulate it.

* Liberally used in the soundtrack for both ''BanjoKazooie'' and its sequels. The levels where it shows up are meant to evoke the feeling of a classic horror BMovie, {{Atlantis}} and an alien terrarium.

* Liberally used in the soundtrack for both ''BanjoKazooie'' and its sequel. The levels where it shows up are meant to evoke the feeling of a classic horror BMovie though.

* The melody of the theme of ''StarTrek'' was played on a theramin (with an accompanying choir).

* ''TheLostWeekend'' the earliest use in a film score from 1945, about a alcoholic's weekend-long binge.

* ''TheLostWeekend'' an early example from 1945, about a alcoholic's weekend-long binge.

* In the various musical tracks that accompany Homestuck, [[BigBad Jack Noir]] is often leitmotifed by what sounds like a theremin.

* In the various musical tracks that accompany [[Homestuck]], [[BigBad Jack Noir]] is often leitmotifed by what sounds like a theremin.

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* ''SonicTheHedgehog 2's'' final zone has a very long, theremin-heavy theme tune, the last vestige of a DummiedOut level.