{"id":3848,"date":"2012-05-03T12:58:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T10:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=3848"},"modified":"2012-05-05T12:31:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T10:31:42","slug":"theremin-busker-in-ljubljana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=3848","title":{"rendered":"Theremin Busker in Ljubljana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zhenya, Ana and I heard the strange music while standing on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Triple_Bridge\">triple bridge<\/a>. At first I thought it was a saw player but as we got closer it was clear that the man was playing a homemade <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theremin\">Theremin<\/a>. His set-up included a PA system, mini disk player, CD player, all hacked into a homemade case and powered by a small gas generator 20 feet away and behind a sound baffle. Wonderful!<\/p>\n<div class=\"hang-2-column\" style=\"width:620px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Theremin Busker in Ljubljana\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QySFyuxWtoY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h1>UPDATE:<\/h1>\n<p>Just a few hours after posting the video on YouTube someone called copperleaves made this very informative comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The busker is Romanian thereminist, Benedict Popescu. Other videos of this very unusual musician playing his even more unusual theremin can be found here on YouTube.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhenya, Ana and I heard the strange music while standing on the triple bridge. At first I thought it was a saw player but as we got closer it was clear that the man was playing a homemade Theremin. His set-up included a PA system, mini disk player, CD player, all hacked into a homemade&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,4,168,15],"tags":[293,389,390,423],"class_list":["post-3848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","category-music","category-travel","category-video","tag-busker","tag-slovenia","tag-theremin","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3848"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3860,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions\/3860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}