one day i'm gonna have a mental breakdown and i'll buy a theremin and it'll be the only thing i talk about for three months and then just as suddenly i will cease and never talk about it again
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i have a roland aerophone i should really be busting out for my mental health right about now, but... it's sitting in its case collecting dust currently >.<
I got banned from playing the Theremin at the music store I used to take guitar lessons and hangout at in high school. It’s just so fun I would do it all the time and I’m sure it got obnoxious for the people who worked there and knew I wasn’t gonna buy it.
I have an accordion. This did happen to me sort of but I’m always having a mental breakdown so this kind of thing happens a lot. The accordion still cheers me up though! I also own a bunch of typewriters, and a reel to reel tape deck. Thanks to this post, I will probably get a theramin eventually.
Oh, yes! If you could ever get good on it you could go around busking and play that song and everyone would put money in your hat just for the nostalgia you made them feel.
i dont know woman - the onus is on you to provide the rationale to start the long process of taking up an artform its not on me for questioning the specificity of the desire you wet rag
No complete breakdown, but I did similar during covid lockdown. Moog Theramini isn't too spendy and I got about 80% of my money back at the other side.
Fun times, especially if you have hounds to sing with you!
post about karting again katie we want to see u post about things ur passionate about instead of yelling at your replygirls like jerma does to his chat
I did this with the Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator chiptunes hardware and then made some people happy when I gave them all away. For a couple months, there was so much beeping and booping.
I did this a few years ago and it's definitely one of my favorite mental breakdown decisions I've ever made.
One of the first times I had my now gf of 2+ years over it was partially under the pretense of showing off the theremin. Turns out tgirls think theremins are really sexy.
Here's a pic of my theremin. It's a moog theremini, one of the cheaper and more versatile theremins you can get. I like it! Its very sensitive so if you get one I'd recommend also getting some sort of grounded extension outlet. Thankfully the outlets in my current home work fine.
also, jean michelle jarre can't play the thing for a damn, it turns out. "oxygene in your living room" is a fantastic live performance [find on yt] but his theremin part is painful.
we accidentally booked a guy whose main instrument was theremin at the bar (which was more...queer dance?) but it was a weird night when he played & he had a beat & he kinda fucked & we got hammered on chartreuse & served all night & then accidentally drunkenly booked him back every month that year.
next month, he brought 2 turntables & scratched through a yoko ono record while playing theremin & we set candles around him like we venerating a cult priest & got drunk at like 8:15 on this baller brooklyn aperitif just called "yellow."
i don't miss bartending except when i really miss bartending.
i was very very literally the bouncingest barkeep in the city in two cities i lived in. owners were sometimes like, "you can't just chuck everyone who says something you don't like" and i was like, "we'll see."
the power of being a newly out trans girl and having an entire bar staff who had my back meant i basically had free reign to toss transphobes (our bar was hella queer friendly anyway, we had a trans pride flag and a kink pride flag up lol)
honestly i was nothing without the rest of the bar. they were fantastic. my bartender taught me to enforce my boundaries more, and the bar owner straight up let me stay the night when a guitar player from one of the acts was... violently pursuing me. She also got him banned from several other venues
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But I think they’re hard to quit.
- Buy her stuff.
- Git gud an weird.
https://hekla.bandcamp.com
ALSO WAIT KIMMY YAY YOU'RE KIMMIFIED!!!
I wave and it makes a ghostly moan
Look I don't fuckin know why I posted it either ok
buy me a theremin
Not calling your theremin a user
Fun times, especially if you have hounds to sing with you!
https://www.gaudi.ch/OpenTheremin/
I _tried_ to align hand positions to notes, but haven't practiced enough for consistency.
I had the kit for years, and only finished building it not quite 3 years ago.
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Source: I do this thing all the goddamn time
Step 2: invest several hundred dollars in stuff for it
Step 3: lose interest
"I used to have a theremin, but I got rid of it. I never touched the thing."
https://bsky.app/profile/devonianstone.bsky.social/post/3ljzueog3pc24
One of the first times I had my now gf of 2+ years over it was partially under the pretense of showing off the theremin. Turns out tgirls think theremins are really sexy.
https://nanettesclouds.itch.io/gumtown
https://youtu.be/pQiovnOdNUw?si=P2RLn8uJBgB84_bv
also, jean michelle jarre can't play the thing for a damn, it turns out. "oxygene in your living room" is a fantastic live performance [find on yt] but his theremin part is painful.
(The circuit isn't actually too bad to put together, but it hinges on a couple proximity sensors which are a bit weird of a component.)
imagining a whole secret hidden synaesthetic song of my people waiting to be unlocked. 😄
i don't miss bartending except when i really miss bartending.
the power of being a newly out trans girl and having an entire bar staff who had my back meant i basically had free reign to toss transphobes (our bar was hella queer friendly anyway, we had a trans pride flag and a kink pride flag up lol)