BY JOANNA C. VALENTE

We don't listen to the theremin enough, so here are some songs you should check out that were revamped by the instrument. Theremins, which are often used in avant-garde music, was invented by Leon Theremin and patented in 1928.

While you may not think you've heard a theremin before, you probably have, as film scores used theremins, such as Ed Wood and The Machinist. Having recently gotten in a rabbit hole myself, I rounded up some of my favorites:

1. Clara Rockmore - Noctune in C Minor

2. Clara Rockmore - The Swan

3. Katica Illenyi - Once Upon a Time in the West

4. Grégoire Blanc - Clair de Lune

5. Peter Pringle - Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. They are the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (Operating System, 2017), Sexting Ghosts (Unknown Press, 2018), Xenos (Agape Editions, 2016), and is the editor of A Shadow Map: Writing by Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM, 2017). They received their MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Joanna is the founder of Yes, Poetry and the managing editor for Civil Coping Mechanisms and Luna Luna Magazine. Some of their writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Brooklyn Magazine, Prelude, BUST, Spork Press, and elsewhere. Joanna also leads workshops at Brooklyn Poets. joannavalente.com / Twitter: @joannasaid / IG: joannacvalente