Moog’s New Theremini Looks Like a Spaceship, and Sounds Like One Too

Gadget Lab | WIRED: The theremin may be one of the oldest electronic musical instruments—it was 1920 when Leo Theremin first cooked up his simple box with antennas sticking out of it—but it’s a device that even today remains firmly anchored in the future.
The tone is otherworldly, sort of a buzzing, nasal whine. In post-war pop culture, it was the perfect weapon for setting the appropriate mood on soundtracks for films and radio shows about aliens.