AustLit

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To see [her] play a piece of music on the theremin is to be reminded of a boy doing tricks on a bicycle. For, like a boy who rides with 'no hands', [she] plays this instrument without touching it - by merely waving [her] hands over it.

• Mary Day Winn from a Baltimore newspaper, 1948

Epigraph:

I am electrical by nature, music is the electric soil in which the spirit lives, thinks, and invents.

• Attributed to Ludwic van Beethoven from Erik Davis, 'Recording Angels', The Wire, January, 1999

Epigraph:

Astronomers say they have heard the sound of a black hole singing. And what it is singing, and perhaps has been singing for more than two billion years, they say, is B flat - a B flat 57 octaves lower than middle C...The black hole is playing 'the lowest note in the universe,' said Dr. Andrew Fabian, an X-ray astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy at Cambridge University in England.

• The New York Times, 16th September, 2003