The theremin, the perpetually maligned and overlooked device that turns 100 this year, is one of the only instruments where basic act of creating noise actually looks like a magic trick. Watch as Armen Ra conjures an opera singer out of thin air.
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Eight decades later, in the year 2000, a young Armenian from Iran named Armen Ra told a reporter a very important lie."I was modeling with different photographers in New York, including David Lachapelle.was doing a story on him, so he flew me and Amanda Lepore and a few other people [to LA]. He had an opening and a party. There was a reporter who was following us around for the whole weekend. I was unknown, except in the New York club scene.
When he acquired his first theremin, Ra was technically homeless, though crashing at a friend's multimillion dollar mansion. He knew he'd have to buckle down and actually learn to play the instrument he'd claimed to be studying, which seemed daunting."It was a nightmare. Oh s***. I'd already been talking about it. Even before it came, it's all I would talk about. I was obsessed," he says."All day I was on it. I was terrified. Like,.
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