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You can listen to Miquette's theremin performance on this page. Time to time, new recordings will be added but also there is nostalgic old recordings.=>Miquette's Profile
Do you know THEREMIN? Theremin is the oldest electronic musical instrument. Believe or not, you can play the instrument without touching it.
The right figure shows Etherwave, a popular theremin, made by Moog Music (former BigBriar).

Etherwave

new Currently the latest performance --> Robinson Crusoe

My first impression when I heard the main theme of the NHK(Japan Broadcasting Corporation)'s "Taiga" drama "Hikaru Kimi he" in 2024 was that it sounded like Rachmaninoff, but the melody was a bit nostalgic = "Robinson Crusoe" by Art Of Noise! So I tried to play that one on the theremin.
The similarity is not a coincidence. Yumi Tono, who was in charge of the music for NHK's "Taiga" Drama says in her profile that she was influenced by Art Of Noise, I guess she brought that one on purpose! I just grinned and said "So she did!"

This song became famous when Art Of Noise covered it in 1989, but it was originally the theme song for the TV drama "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe," which was created in 1964 and broadcast as BBC version by BBC in 1965.

This time, I used Claravox Centennial for the main theremin, and made backing by programming, and in a short in-between part I added some "Rachmaninoff" flavor.
In fact, Etherwave also secretly participated in the project, and was in charge of the jungle birds-like sounds.

Please enjoy the feeling of being adrift on a desert island for a while🏝

Live Performance History


How to Listen to the Miquette's Theremin Music


Robinson Crusoe new

Composed by Robert Mellin, Georges Van Parys


La lugubre gondola II

Composed by Franz Liszt


El cant dels ocells / Song of the Birds

Catalan Christmas carol


Take a walk with a Camel

Composed by Jun Yamamoto


Solitude in Morning Twilight

Composed by Toru YASKAWA


Washed Ashore Coconut(Yashi-no-Mi)

Composed by Toraji Ohnaka, Arranged by Toru YASKAWA(Moclin)


Nocturnal Labyrinth

Composed by Toru YASKAWA


Love Letter(Koibumi)

Composed by Miyuki Nakajima


Vocalise Op.34 No.14

Composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff


 The Last Emperor

Composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto


 Traveling Through Scatter Petals

Composed by Yumi Arai


 "Ode to Shara" from "Nirvana"

Composed by Megumi Ohnaka, lyrics by Masataka Mori


 O Holy Night / Cantique de Noël

Composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto


 Bibo no Aozora(Beautiful Blue Sky)

Composed by Adolphe Adam


 MAY

Composed by MAYUMI, lyrics by Hiroko Taniyama, Arranged by Kenjiro Sakiya


 storytime

Composed by rhesa siregar


 Rice Dumplings(Sio Bah-chàng)

Composed by Dung-song Jhang Chiou


 Whale's Sigh(Kujira no tameiki)

Composed by Hiroko Taniyama


 Grown-Up Christmas List

Composed by David Foster


 Suisou no naka no sakana (Fish in an aqua tank)

Composed by Keiko Matsui


 Ave Maria (Tanti Anni Primi)

Composed by Astor Piazzolla


Clair de Lune

Composed by Claude Achille Debussy Arrangement by Katsuhiro Oguri


 Mi-4-Si in Blue

Composed by Toru YASKAWA


 Elegy for Theremin and Orchestra

Composed by Jun Yamamoto


 Spring is nearly here

Composed by he Shadows (Brian Bennett & Bruce Welch)


 Dolphin Dreams

Composed by Lee Ritenour


 Shuuchaku Eki(Far-end Station of a Train Line)

Composed by Keisuke Hama


 Kassai(Applause)

Composed by Taiji Nakamura


 Little Wing

Composed by Jimi Hendrix


à la forêt

Composed by Jun Yamamoto


the “Kitchen of Sadness"

Composed by Kei Ogura


Granen (The Spruce)

Composed by Jean Sibelius


Shabondama(Soap Bubble)

Composed by Shinpei Nakayama Arranged by Toru YASKAWA=Moclin


Là sui monti(Jasmine)

Chinese folk song


Nanatsu no ko(The Seven Children)

Composed by Nagayo Motoori Arranged by Toru YASKAWA=Moclin


Ginga-tsushin

Composed by Hiroko Taniyama


Traumerei

Composed by Robert Alexander Schumann


Aliens

Composed by Yasuyuki Horigome


Estrellita

Composed by Manuel M. Ponc Arranged by Jascha Heifetzas


Quarantine (from First Man)

Composed by Justin Hurwitz


Traveling Theremin digest


The Summer Knows / Summer of '42

Composed by Michel Legrand


SPAIN(Live)

Composed by Chick Corea


Suzhou Nocturne / Soshuu yakyoku

Composed by Liu Chi Arranged by Hattori Ryoichi


High sky / Ta ka i sra

Composed by Liu Chi Arranged by Manzo


My Motherland / Uo Dei Zu Gwo

Composed by Liu Chi Arranged by Moclin


Theme of "Rabbit" / Theme of "U-sa"

Composed by Jun Yamamoto


Madder Red Chorale(Choräle In F)

Composed by Toru YASKAWA


Yastura no ashioto no ballads(Their ballads of footsteps) / Hajime Ningen Gyatoruz

Composed by Hiroshi Kamayatsu


Lupin Love Theme

Composed by Yuji Ohno


Denwa wo suruyo (I will call you)

Composed by Sin Watanabe(WATANABABY)


Minna yime no naka (Everything in the dream)

Composed by Kuranosuke Hamaguchi


221B, BAKER STREET / sherlock holmes

Composed by Patrick Gowers


TELSTAR

Composed by Joe Meek


Sonate pour clarinette et piano 2. Romanza (Tres calme)

Composed by Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc


Apres un reve

Composed by Gabriel Urbain Faure


COLUMBO-Mystery Movie Theme

Composed by Henry Mancini

This is the theme song for the so-called "COLOMBO," but it was originally "Mystery Movie Theme," which was the opening theme for an American program "NBC Sunday Mystery Movie. This program broadcasts several detective stories including "COLOMBO" in rotation, and this song was used as the theme when it was broadcast in Japan, so we are familiar with it as the Columbo theme.

I am often asked if the melody of this song was played with a theremin. But when I tried to play it myself, I was convinced that it is not the same. I was convinced that the melody was not right, because the higher register was missing, but only in Etherwave. So this time, I shifted the tuning so that I could play higher notes as much as possible. It was difficult because the pitch was not linear.
In fact, it was probably played on a synthesizer, most likely a YAMAHA YC-30. Or some say it was an ARP Odyssey or 2600.

All the parts except for the theremin were copied by ear, and I used only TTS-1 (a software synthesizer bundled with cakewalk's SONAR) as sound module. It was difficult to reproduce the rhythm unique to this particular song.

This song reminds me of the happy mood of watching TV with my family together when I was a child (even though a murder case was going to happen) and makes me feel excited.


Candlelight Carol(Live)

Composed by John Rutter


The town where a little bird comes.(Kotori ga kurumachi)

Composed by Shousuke Ichikawa


Late summer(Banka)

Composed by Yumi Arai


LEAVE ME ALONE

Composed by Hirotaka Iauni/THE SQUARE


The main themes of 'Gunshi Kanbee'

Composed by Yugo Kanno Arranged by Jun Yamamoto


You & Night & Whisky

Composed by Masamichi Sugi


Albeniz - Tango

Composed by Isaac Albeniz


Rock 'n' Ave Maria

Composed by Giulio Caccini, Vladimir Vavilov


"Autumn In Rome" from Stazione Termini

Composed by Alessandro Cicognini


"RED" Theremin Version

Composed by Uniuni, Lyrics by Masaya Imoto


"Walking In The Air" from "The Snowman"

Composed by Howard Blake Arranged by Jun Yamamoto


Delicatessen

Composed by Carlos D'Alessio


If

Composed by Michael Nyman


Star-circling song

Composed by Kenji Miyazawa


A Rose for Ecclesiastes (3 Gymnopedies) for Theremin and Piano (2005)

Composed by Jun Yamamoto


The Song of Therru (accompanied with the piano)

Composed by Hiroko Taniyama


Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Variation 18:Andante cantabile (D flat major)

Composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff


Parolibre

Composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto


Chiisana Sora (Small Sky)

Composed by Toru Takemitsu


Misirlou

Popular music in 1920's in Greece


Songs flowing like winds- theme from "Getsuyo-Kumikyoku (Monday Suite)"

Composed by Kazumasa Oda


"Ieji"- Largo from Symphomy No. 9 "From the New World" the 2nd movement

composed by Antonin Leopold Dvorak


Bachianas Brasileiras No.5 Cantilena

Composed by Heitor Villa-Lobos


Santa Clause is My Boy Friend

Composed by Yumi Matsutoya (Yuming)


Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto


Sonata Pour Piano et Violon en La majeur, 1er mouvement

Composed by Cesar Franck


Playing Love

Composed by Ennio Morricone


A Life Is Like One Long Cigarette

Composed by Hiroko Taniyama


Sakura Sakura

Japanese Old Song


Telephone

Composed by Kosaku Yamada


Bella Notte

Composed by Sonny Burke-Peggy Lee


Vocalise Etude no. 151

Composed by Olivier Messiaen


Brazil (Aquarela do Brasil)

Composed by Ary Barroso


Moonlight (Tuki no hikari)

Music & Lyric by Manzo


Train Station of Face (Kao no eki)

Composed by Hiroko Taniyama


You must believe in spring

Composed by Michel Legrand


Berceuse op.16

Composed by Gabriel Urbain Faure


Meditation de Thais

Composed by Jules Emile Frederic Massenet


Lydia

Composed by Gabriel Urbain Faure


Melodia Sentimental

Composed by Heitor Villa-Lobos


"Proof of Human" (Ningen-no-Shomei) (Live)

Composed by Yuji Ohno


Woman (from the movie "Tragedy of W")

Composed by Karuho Kureta (Yumi Matsutoya)


The Rose

Composed by Amanda McBroom


So in Love

Composed by Cole Porter


White Christmas

Composed by Irving Berlin/Arranged by Miquette


Christ is born

Composed by Ray Charles and Domenico Bartolucci


Be Wind-for Green (Kaze ni nare - Midori no tameni)

Composed by Hiroko Taniyama


Aria di chiesa

Composed by Alessandro Stradella


Zigeunerweisen

Composed by Pablo de Sarasate


Sky

Composed by Jun Yamamoto


Amarilli

Composed by Giulio Caccini


Song of Therru(the movie preview version)

Composed by Hiroko Taniyama


Visionally Moon (Maboroshi no tsuki)

Composed by Sadayoshi Okamoto / COIL


Ave Maria Ave Maria

Composed by Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmuller Arranged by Jun Yamamoto


Nessun dorma(TURANDOT) Nessun dorma(TURANDOT)

Composed by G.Puccini


Soledad

Composed by Astor Piazzolla Arranged by Katsuhiro Oguri


A Rose for Ecclesiastes

Composed by Jun Yamamoto


Memories of Time (Toki no kioku)

Composed by Yoko Kanno Accompanied by Jun Yamamoto


Ave Maria Ave Maria

Composed by Franz Schubert


Er Quan Ying Yue (Moon Reflected in Er Quan) This is a very famous tune for erhu (2-stringed Chinese instrument played with a bow). I played this with the theremin solo. Currently in status of trial and error.

Composed by HUA Yan-jun(=Ah Bing)


"Shikararete" (Being Scolded) Shikararete

Composed by Ryutaro Hirota Arranged by Jun Yamamoto


Ave Maria Ave Maria

Composed by C. F. Gounod-J. S. Bach


Ave Maria Ave Maria

Composed by Giulio Caccini Accompaniment by Miquette


China connection (AULD LANG SINE in Chinese Flavor) China connection (AULD LANG SINE in Chinese Flavor)

Scotland Folklore, Arranged and Accompaniment Sequenced by Miquette


Yuyake-Koyake (Sunset glow)Yuyake-Koyake (Sunset glow)

Composed by Shin Kusakawa Arranged by Miquette


Le Cygne (from "Le carnaval des animaux - Grande fantaisie zoologique")

Composed by Camille Saint-Saens


He Ri Jun Zai Lai ("When will you return?")


Air from Overture No.3 BWV.1068

Composed by J. S. Bach


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