Cynthia Millar: Guide to the ondes Martenot
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- Cynthia Millar, master of the ondes Martenot, demonstrates the evocative sounds of this rarely heard electronic instrument. French composer Oliver Messiaen uses the ondes Martenot in his work, "Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divine."
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Recorded Live: January 4, 2017
The degree of creativity that led to the invention of this instrument and its unique speakers is mind - boggling... and decades before the Moog innovations. Nothing short of genius.
Check out a new book called Electronic Perspectives - it has an amazing selection of early electronic instruments. Somewhere much more rare than this one, but both the Martenot and the Moog are included.
I met her twice at performances of the opera The "Exterminating Angel", she was the nicest person I met at The Metropolitan Opera. I even have a letter from her. I hope to someday see her again
I've read that the British composer Barry Gray used this instrument in the music for the TV show UFO. It made that whirring sound of the UFO's as well as the space music. The forerunner of the Moog and other synthesizers.
I heard that he went and recorded real UFO's, but this sounds much more plausible
Used as the 'sleeping astronauts' theme of the film 'Journey To The Far Side Of Te Sun', besides in the UFO series.
Yes he did, he brought in France's top player / pianist of this instrument, Jeanne Loriod to play "Sleeping Astronauts" for his suite from the movie Journey to the far side of the sun (1969)
@@spooked7952 In the episode CLOSE UP
LOVE this instrument so much
The lady played on the Ghostbusters films including the latest
Thank you for producing and sharing this!
thank you for this video!!!! i knew that the ones martinot was a theremin-like electro-acoustical instrument, but i did know the playing techniques like she shows in the video. i am glad that i understand them better now. plus i liked hearing the sounds that the techniques (electronic and physical) created. :D
Maurice Jarre used an onde as the foundation in the the soundtrack to Lawrence of Arabia. Have not heard a better, more exotic, more haunting application of the instrument.
Fantastic demo! Thank you so much!
Absolutely fascinating. A lovely insight into a rare instrument that I'd not heard of until today. I want to know so much more now. Does it have it's own notation to ensure that the composer's wishes are met by the musician? Thank you to both Seattle Symphony and Cynthia Millar for this great little video.
Maybe Cynthia Millar had a collaboration with the legendary film composer Elmer Bernstein and he learned her to play Ondes Martenot.
Beautiful instrument, beautifuly explained.
I happened to be watching 'Counterweight' an episode of The Outer Limits on Talking Pictures and googled 'who played the Theremin on this episode' - As a Theremin player myself - I assumed it was a Theremin.
I was amazed to learn it in fact was a 'ondes Martenot'! I'd never heard of this before!
Again, like the Theremin, invented in the 20s using a heterodyne principle - fascinating!! I bet they are costly with all three different speakers etc. Also a bit like the 'Tannerin' as used on 'Good Vibrations' by the Beachboys.
Came from Koji Yamamura's "A Country Doctor"! Saw this in the bts for the music and vocals and WOW never heard of it before, very cool instrument.
Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead brought me here. He uses an Ondes Martenot on quite a few songs to amazing results. Especially when playing a melody through the left channel while Ed doubles up with an Ebow on the right channel.
Hello, I see some indications on the score of Messiaen to change the sound to a cello-like sound, could you please show us how to use the other sounds of the instruments? and what should we write on the score to produce any certain sound or effect?
Thank you so very much for this quick lesson!
I'm not sure if it's made clear, but this isn't the original Ondes Martenot, very few of those fragile instruments still exist. I think this more modern adaptation of the instrument can not only duplicate the sounds of the original, but can produce a greater range of sounds, and in total, is more versatile. And appears to need even great skill from the performer.
No, that is the oryginal Ondes Martenot, 7mk. This instrument has wooden touche d'intensite because oryginal is broken and replace by new one but this only the only difference. Those are 3 diffuseurs without Palme because Martenot replaced palme with resonance spring speaker. In earlier versions you can find 4 speakers but this one on the video is probably made short time before of the end of production.
why do you have to use your left hand to press the brown button thing to produce sound, isn't better to use your feet instead like a foot pedal, so you can play with both hands? I'm sorry if this may potentially be a silly question, there must be a good reason i am just not aware of it at the moment.
ben Z later Ondes Martenot models, like the Mk 7, included two foot pedals to control volume and immediately mute the output of the instrument. Maurice Martenot was a cellist so to him, controlling amplitude with one hand and pitch with the other probably made more sense than using pedals. For more complex passages however, pedals are definitely helpful!
ben Z, this is a monophonic instrument, so there no use for using both hands to produce the pitch. And i think it's easier to control the volume with a finger then a foot, it gives you a more finer control. Though this last thing just depends on the player i guess. Some will be more comfortable by doing this with a pedal. Some modern adaptations i saw are using a breathcontroller for the volume instead.
Because on pivots their index finger off of their middle finger. It makes for lovely dynamics. Much better than a foot if. More delicate
Because it is a monophonic instrument.
@@eugenezandberg8057 Really? What happens if you need to play one note after another very fast and the two notes are very far away from each other?
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so there no use for using both hands to produce the pitch
Nice demo!
The notes are precisely repeatable with a keyboard, seems like a real improvement over the theremin in that regard.
@mondellomusic Check out the segment from 10:30 to 12:10 in this video with Carolina Eyck. It's entirely possible, and repeatable, on the theremin too.
m.ruclips.net/video/LYSGTkNtazo/видео.html&pp=ygUjQ2Fyb2xpbmEgRXljayBwbGF5IHdpdGhvdXQgdG91Y2hpbmc%3D
Here's a tip: USE A MICROPHONE! Can't hear the person speaking at all
Ah I Love to Hear The Classic Ghostbusters Score. Yeah she did those Spooky Parts of It
And she did it again for the new film too!
Never thought I'd see an analogue synthesiser
Digital synthesizers didn’t really start hitting it big until the ‘80s with the Yamaha DX7. Most before that were analogue.
Amazing
'Listen..... do you smell something?'
that ring and string and single wooden key are so cool together.
Radiohead brought me here
"Get her!"
“There is no Dana, ONLY ZUUL!”
Beautiful!!
Very nice and instructive video but sound is very low and with little noises... Actually we can hear the Ondes very well!
Thx!
musicians clearly love to EXPLAIN this instrument.
Why a pedal you need to have your left hand always on instead of a foot pedal?? I can see why it never took off now
The inventor was a radio operator, so I reckon he was thinking of a Morse Key for the left hand.
It only plays one nite, so you need one hand. The left hand is critical as it moves very fast on and off of the note, and also has much more gentle expressivity than a foot pedal would do.
this a random radiohead comment
I'd love to hear Debussy, like Claire de lune, on this.
No matter how it’s played, it sounds genuinely frightening
Lecture begins at 2:21
Nostril scratch at 2:20
@@connerfields4753 lmao
¿Quién mas busco este video después de escuchar "how to dissappear completely" en vivo?
Here from kid a, iykyk...
One person is afraid of the dark.
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@@jacvic0790 if time is my vessel then learning to love might be my way back to sea…
This lyrics or something?
SCP-2912 brought me here
quien viene de parte del profe de musica?
Just when you thought the Theremin was crackerjack...
why would you think that any sound source was "crackerjack"? all sounds are available to the musician for expressive purposes. it is the musician's job to choose them and figure out how to use them expressively, and the listeners job to try to imagine what the sounds -- in their context (musical, social, political, etc.) -- might be expressing. when the listener has achieved this level of capability (i.e., somewhere beyond the dilettante-snob level in which the goal is judging "good" or "bad" by some accepted standard), we might say that they are listening empathetically.
The Ondes Martenot is far more interesting to my ear than the Theremin, but keep trying to outdo everyone else's cynicism.
The name 'Ondes Martenot' sounds like an made up social media bot account name.
It means Martenot waves, it's French.
Awful instrument
Wrong
awful comment
There are no awful instruments, just awful musicians (and RUclips commentators).
Pretty sure Jupiter 2 ( LOST IN SPACE) engines are from this too
this is terrible music
you're terrible music >:D