Jean Laurendeau and the Ondes Martenot

A light overview of the rarely heard Ondes Martenot, with one of the world's foremost masters of the instrument, Jean Laurendeau.

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[47985555]

LOL! sounds like he said 'listen bitches' at 1:40

[jamielellins]

@TheYanzildo GHOSTBUSTERS

[ObiTrev]

0:45 Ghostbusters!

[FlametopFred]

What probably would be very cool now is for somebody to design a MIDI controller with the same properties, but attached to outboard MIDI modules or virtual synths, plugins. Imagine this whole console connected to a Moog Voyager.

[FlametopFred]

I like how there is actually sheet music for this ... musical instruments are always better when they have some kind of drawer that pulls out. Nice up-close detail

[robberval]

At 1:18 he plays SOS in morse code.

[fsxolliefsx]

I keep hearing bits that remind me of Where I End And You Begin and The National Anthem! I want an Ondes Martenot so badly...

[paullubliner]

It WAS used however to establish the most eerie of feelings of the "Village" in the late, great Patrick McGoohan's (No. 6) fantastic ITV television series "THE PRISONER."

[paullubliner]

It WAS used however to establish the most eerie of feelings of the "Village" in the late, great Patrick McGoohan's (No. 6) fantastic ITV television series "THE PRISONER."

[MargaretsLight]

wtf!? it sounds so good! 

[paullubliner]

I have looked and found no written statements that this early synthesizer was used by Alexander Courage for the second pilot's theme. To my ear in the original second Star Trek pilot's theme, I hear an electric violin's timbre. Also, there is the finger sliding glissando's dissonance created by the taped delay echo and the violin's real time note. This does not occur with the Ondes Martenot. Further, I believe I hear the direction of the violin bow changing and variations in bowing pressure.