Pamelia Stickney, Theremin Virtuoso

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Pamelia Stickney

Pamelia Stickney (formerly known as Pamelia Kurstin) is an American theremin player. She has performed and recorded with many artists, including David Byrne, Yoko Ono, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Seb Rochford, Otto Lechner and Simone Dinnerstein, and was instrumental to the final design of Robert Moog's Etherwave Pro Theremin, for which she was one of the primary test musicians. Stickney has made various film, television and radio appearances, most notably on Saturday Night Live, and in the 2004 documentary Moog.
 
Pamelia has also presented talks at events such as TED. Her background as a jazz musician on the upright bass has led her to develop a "walking bass" theremin technique. Her first solo album, Thinking Out Loud, was released in 2007 on John Zorn's Tzadik label. In 2011 the London-based label Slowfoot released Ouch Evil Slow Hop, a collaboration between Pamelia and Seb Rochford.
 
In 2013, Pamelia formed Blueblut with Mark Holub and Chris Janka. The Vienna-based trio released their first album, Hurts So Gut, on Bandcamp in 2014.