Now do "Star Trek", Mr Mittens!
Yep, it’s a cat playing a theremin (via).
[UPDATE: It’s become a fad!]
This theremin has what sounds like a pretty nasty Stylophone sawtooth waveform, as opposed to the classic, more mellow, otherworldly-violin……but it’s a theremin nonetheless.
Musical cats do not, of course, usually show any awareness that there’s a connection between what they’re doing and the noises that’re being made. The cat walks down the piano because that’s how you get to the windowsill; the cat plays the theremin because it enjoys bopping the interesting springy wire.
(Oo! Bill-Bailey-narrated theremin documentary {via}! See also the film documentary Theremin - An Electronic Odyssey.)
I just love the look on the face of the cat at the very end of the first clip...
Comment by Bort — April 16, 2008 @ 6:13 pm
I now realize just where I went wrong in my life. Thank you, Clara.
Comment by Dave-O — April 17, 2008 @ 7:56 am