We have a live performance in studio with Zhou Benming of the Zhou Family Band. Ethnomusicoligist Mu Quian guides us through through the music. Zhou Jingzhi, founder of the Zhou Family Band, used to play in the royal court of the Qing Dynasty. After dynastic China came to an end, later generations of the family […]
Author Archives: David Ellenbogen
Theremin 100, Dorit Chrysler and the Ambient Church: Podcast 311
In this episode we chat with Dorit Chrysler director of of the NY Theremin Society, who have a major event coming up at the Ambient Church. Dorit Chrysler has been dubbed a superior wizard of the theremin. An Austrian-born, New York based composer and performer, Chrysler is the co-founder of the NY Theremin Society and has started […]
Eric Thompson #310
Eric Thompson took up the guitar as a teenager in Palo Alto, California in the early 1960’s, at a time when very few folk guitarists were playing more than basic rhythm guitar. Among his earliest bands were the Black Mountain Boys (with Jerry Garcia and David Nelson) and Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions. He quickly […]