Pamelia Kurstin
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Pamelia Kurstin | |
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 Stickney in 2012 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Pamela Stickney |
| Born | May 28, 1976 California, U.S. |
| Genres | Classical, Electronic, Contemporary classical |
| Occupation(s) | musician, composer, author |
| Instrument(s) | Theremin, double bass, piano, cello |
| Website | www |
Pamelia Stickney (formerly known as Pamelia Kurstin) is an American theremin player. She has performed and recorded with many artists including David Byrne, Yoko Ono, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, David Garland, Seb Rochford, Otto Lechner and Simone Dinnerstein, and was instrumental to the final design of Robert Moog's Etherwave Pro Theremin, for which she was the primary test musician.[citation needed] Kurstin has made various film, television and radio appearances, most notably on Saturday Night Live. [1] and in the 2004 documentary Moog.[2]
Stickney has also presented talks at events such as TED.[3] Her background as a jazz musician on the upright bass has led to develop a "walking bass" theremin technique. She was based in New York until 2005; she now lives in Vienna, Austria.
Stickney was first introduced to the theremin during production of the album Into the Oh in 1999 by Luaka Bop duo Geggy Tah – singer/writer Tommy Jordan and keyboardist Greg Kurstin. She recorded Gymnopedie in 2000 as a member of the theremin/keyboard duo called "The Kurstins" with her then-husband, Greg. Her first solo album Thinking Out Loud was released in 2007 on John Zorn's Tzadik label. In 2011 the London-based label Slowfoot released Ouch Evil Slow Hop,[4] a collaboration between Pamelia and Seb Rochford.
In 2013, Stickney formed Blueblut [5] with Mark Holub and Chris Janka. The Vienna-based trio released their first album hurts so gut on Bandcamp in 2014.
Discography
[edit]- Albums
- 2007: Thinking Out Loud
- 2013: Promotional Copy
- 2017: Transcendental Dissonance
- Collaborations
- 2020: Vulneraries Vol. 5 (with David and Kenji Garland, credited to The Garlands with Pamelia Stickney)
- 2011: Ouch Evil Slow Hop (with Sebastian Rochford)
- 2011: Tunisia (with Pat Mastelotto)
- 2011: Besides Feldman (with Patrick Pulsinger, Hilary Jeffery, and Rozemarie Heggen)
- 2000: First Visit (with Gerry Gibbs and the Third Trio from the Sun, featuring Gerry Gibbs and Greg Kurstin)
- Blueblut
- 2014: hurts so gut
- 2016: buttbutt
References
[edit]- ^ "SNL Archives". Retrieved July 15, 2022.
- ^ "Internet Movie Database - Moog". IMDb. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
- ^ Pamelia Kurstin. "Pamelia Kurstin".
- ^ "Seb Rochford/Pamelia Kurstin: Ouch Evil Slow Hop review". the Guardian. Retrieved June 10, 2011.
- ^ "Pamelia Kurstin über Möbel mit Midi-Funktion" (in German). Skug Journal For Music. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
External links
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- Official site
- Blueblut Bandcamp site
- Pamelia Kurstin at TED
- TED Talk: The untouchable music of the theremin (TED2002)
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