1/20/2009 - Theremin Hero

Rock Band and Guitar Hero World Tour have the element of karaoke in it where you can sing along to the song and be judged on your timing and pitch. So, is it possible to cheat in the vocal gameplay? I guess if you were to play the recorded song back to the microphone, you could. But what's the fun in that? Take an instrument that produces a human-like voice sound like the theremin, pipe that to the microphone and you get "Theremin Hero":

12/14/2008 - Wii Theremin (2 videos)

Not much can be said about the Wii as a hardcore gaming console. Besides Nintendo's first-party offerings, Wii games have largely been mediocre party games. You're certainly not going to see any Wii games being nominated for Game of the Year at tonight's Video Game Awards. It's a big mystery to me as to how the systems are still selling out to this day. While the Wii has lost my interest as a gaming system, it's still interesting to see how people are utilizing the technologies in the Wiimote controller. For example, here's a guy who turned the Wiimote into a virtual theremin. Yes, that's the instrument you can play without touching it.

6/18/2007 - Gnarls Barkley Crazy Theremin Jam

Have you ever heard of the theremin? Neither have I, until I watched these series of YouTube videos by "ooo6". It's apparently the only musical instrument that doesn't require it to be touched. It simply makes a humming sound when you move your hands around its antennae. It is certainly strange-sounding, almost like a disembodied voice.

What "ooo6" does with the theremin, though, is plenty cool. In this video, he substitutes the singing element of "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley with theremin sounds. It sounds so good, that you can almost hear the original lyrics in the humming. He even recreates the artificial echo in the song. I can't wait to see ooo6's future work!