First anniversary of death of theremin player ....

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   Barbara Buchholz.

Barbara Buchholz was one of the leading theremin players in the world. 
She created new playing techniques for the instrument as well as new 
sounds. She first studied bass, guitar, flute and singing; she played 
bass guitar in the all-female band Reichlich Weiblich (the name 
translates as "Substantially Female"). She discovered the theremin in 
the 1990s and studied it with Lydia Kavina (the grand niece of Lew 
Theremin, the inventor of the instrument). She played contemporary 
classical music, experimental electronic and jazz.

She died of 
cancer on Apr 10th 2012. I missed the news of her death back then and 
only heard about it a few months later, so I decided to wait for the 
first anniversary of her death to write about her.

Here a few videos of her that show what an extraordinary theremin player she was.

The first four are with Feature Ring, an experimental jazz band from Germany.

Then
 a few with the Jazz Bigband Graz. The first one is especially 
interesting; she first creates a few loops with the theremin and then 
starts playing over them.

Here a short one in which she is jamming with the Syntax Cinema Orchestra:

Here
 a modern classical composition by Caspar Johannes Walter, "Vacuum 
Hallucinations". Musicians are Barbara Buchholz - theremin, Lydia Kavina
 - theremin, Tobias Rempe - violin and Cosima Gerhardt - cello.

Here is one with Die Dissidenten; Barbara starts playing at around five minutes into the video:

Here a performance with Pedda Borowski (overhead projection).

After having seen these videos you will probably agree that Barbara was an extraordinary musician. She is deeply being missed.