"I don't touch anything while I play." The position of the hands influences electromagnetic fields to produce pitch and volume. "I'm really playing air," she tells the Tiny Desk audience. It looks like a simple black metal box with a couple of protruding antennae, but to play the theremin like Eyck does, with her lyrical phrasing and precisely "fingered" articulation, takes a special kind of virtuosity. The early electronic instrument with the slithery sound was invented almost 100 years ago by Leon Theremin, a Soviet scientist with a penchant for espionage. She's the first to bring a theremin to the Tiny Desk. How do you play an instrument you never physically touch? Watch Carolina Eyck.
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