[haunting music plays]
Hello, my name is Rob Schwimmer
and I wrote the music to "The Spectre"
"A Legend of Old New England"
from 1925.
It's interesting 'cause it's a Halloween sort of scary movie
but all the scenes take place in the daytime
which is kind of unusual.
So the idea was kind of to do an old-fashioned
sort of roller-coaster ride through the movie, musically.
It's got a...
a very virtuosic piano part, which is my main instrument. Also, the theremin, which I play a lot.
The theremin
was already invented before this movie was made.
The theremin was invented in 1920.
So that's one of the oldest electronic instruments.
[theremin plays]
With this, I did one of the most modern electronic instruments
that I love, which is called the Haken Continuum.
[Haken Continuum plays]
One of the other instruments is a Claviola
which is warm-sounding for the domestic bliss. [Claviola plays]
You see this—the sound actually comes out
in different places.
So as I go like this [Claviola plays]
you can actually hear the sound coming out in different positions.
Anyway...
[Claviola plays]
One of the other instruments is
a daxophone, in which you play on wood with a bow
for the more monstrous sounds.
[daxophone plays]
Also I used a waterphone, which is used
a lot in the "Matrix" and "Star Trek" movies
with the whale.
[waterphone plays]
And last a thing called an Ondioline.
[Ondioline plays]
So, with that in mind, I'm hoping that it's fun
and I hope you have a good time.