Pamelia Kurstin

Pamelia Kurstin (born Pamelia Stickney May 28, 1976 in Southern California) is a world-renowned thereminist who has played and recorded with such prestigious artists as David Byrne and Bйla Fleck and the Flecktones and has performed on the television show Saturday Night Live. Her musical training on the upright bass has led to her unique "walking bass" theremin technique. Until recently (late 2005) working out of New York City, she now lives in Vienna, Austria.

She was first recorded on the album Gymnopedie in 2000 as a member of the theremin/keyboard duo called "The Kurstins" with her then-husband, keyboardist Greg Kurstin. Pamelia performs solo (live theremin orchestra by using looping pedals, with the New York-based group Barbez, and occasionally with Sebastien Tellier (France) or Otto Lechner (Austria). She can be heard on Barbez's second album for Important Records, Insignificance, Foetus' latest release, "Love", and has also composed music for a CNN special using her theremin orchestra. She appears as herself in the 2004 documentary about legendary electronic instrument pioneer Dr. Robert Moog, entitled Moog.

Pamelia has recently released her solo album Thinking Out Loud for Tzadik (record label of John Zorn).

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