Martenot

The work also calls for the all-but-extinct ondes Martenot, sort of a theremin with a keyboard.

NSO Review: 'Turangalila's' majestic sweep soars above the flaws 2011

The forces involved are huge, with soprano Klara Ek, a large chorus and an orchestra that includes saxophones and ondes Martenot.

This week's new live music 2011

Because they were reinventing the familiar, the band needed a subtle nod from Mr. Yorke or a cue from Jonny Greenwood, whose back is to his colleagues when he plays the ondes Martenot or other exotic electronic keyboards, to tell the other musicians to move on.

A Band of Prowess and Ingenuity 2008

And – while nosing around for more background on UFO, I fell over a new-to-me early electronic instrument: the ondes Martenot.

Poikilotherms 2007

And – while nosing around for more background on UFO, I fell over a new-to-me early electronic instrument: the ondes Martenot.

Nice Hair! 2007

Thomas Bloch, the musician who is a specialist of rare instruments ondes Martenot, glassharmonica, cristal Baschet... has a new website :

The Glass Harmonica: Stairway to Madness 2005

Messiaen produced his own text, an ecstatic tapestry of biblical passages and writings by Thomas Aquinas and Thomas à Kempis, and wove around it a score that drew on birdcalls, Balinese and Javanese gamelan rhythms and melodies, the eerie electronic howl of the ondes Martenot played here by Jean Laurendeau and his own modernist approach to harmony.

NYT > Home Page By ALLAN KOZINN 2011

Also he employed the Ondes Martenot the electronic whoo-whee-whoo sound of sci fi films and that's very cool.

Reuters: Press Release 2011

Also he employed the Ondes Martenot the electronic whoo-whee-whoo sound of sci fi films and that's very cool.

Reuters: Press Release 2011

Here is part two of my progress, building an Ondes Martenot-style controller for my modular synthesizer.

MAKE Magazine 2009