Jean Laurendeau and the Ondes Martenot. A light overview of the rarely heard Ondes Martenot, with one of the world's foremost masters of the instrument, Jean Laurendeau.
I'm looking for a place to purchase an ondes martenot, an electronic instrument similar in sound to the theremin. It has a keyboard with a slider at the bottom. Probably the most famous use of one is in the band Radiohead, 
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Ondes Martenot reproduce microtonal sounds in Hindu music ...
The 1920s were called the summit of the era of mechanical and electrical dawn of the Age. By 1922, in Paris, Darius Milhaud began experimenting with "processing of the voice by shifting phonograph." These continued until 1927.
This decade has brought a wealth of early electronic instruments with the Theremin, there is the presentation of the Ondes Martenot, which was designed to reproduce the microtonal sounds in Indian music, and Trautonium.
Maurice Martenot invented the Ondes Martenot in 1928, and soon he showed in Paris.Composers using the instrument ultimately include Boulez, Honneger, Jolivet, Koechlin, Messiaen, Milhaud, Tremblay and Varèse.Radiohead guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood also uses in his compositions and a plethora of songs by Radiohead.
Prague à la découverte des ondes Martenot
- “There is music that's created that's like clockwork really,” says the composer, who used early electric instrument the ondes Martenot among his instrumentation. “It's wheels within wheels and I'm trying to make relationships between the clocks,
- Bruno Perrault Bruno Perrault, vous êtes musicien, vous jouez d'un instrument assez rare que l'on appelle les ondes Martenot. D'abord, pouvez-vous rappeler à nos auditeurs ce que sont les ondes Martenot ? « Les ondes Martenot est un instrument
- Most recently, FTS hosted a collaboration that brought together contemporary dance music, in the person of dubstep artist Roly Porter, and one of the earliest electronic instruments – the ondes Martenot, invented in 1928 – as played by Cynthia Millar.
- L'ensemble instrumental, constitué de professeurs du Conservatoire, épaulera Nathalie Forget (ondes Martenot), en compagnie de Mathew Schellhorn (piano), d'Éric Comère (accordéon) et de Michel Supera (saxophone soprano + orchestre à cordes).
- Les ondes Martenot, instrument trop méconnu, sont au coeur d'un film qui interroge leur mystère dans Le chant des ondes, de Caroline Martel (mars). Paul Arcand, après Les voleurs d'enfance et Québec sur ordonnance, livre un autre documentaire de