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Youtube playlist Marla Goodman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3um7e57Qd_M&list=PLy266vo6t5gC7vT_3Py065thxkKKUxc0c

Youtube playlist Dolly Vinyl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6gP96xLtLI&list=PLy266vo6t5gDQG_KCV1eHqdWgjqlAoEYC

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Poster blurb: THEREMIN PERFORMANCE: A wildly eclectic and visually enthralling live set of experimental, classical, jazz, folk, pop and sci-fi music encased in the misremembered memoirs of Montana’s favorite “fraternal twin art Thereminist,” Miss Dolly Vinyl. (Hands-on after party with Theremin artist Marla Goodman follows {{at place}}.

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Bozeman-based performance artist Dolly Vinyl (Marla Goodman) is coming to {{city}} on {{day, date}} with three ways to explore one of the world’s rarest and most fascinating instruments: the Theremin! A day-time art workshop, an evening performance, and a demo/after-party are all scheduled for {{date}}.

Theremin Art Workshop: “Drawing Sound.” Join artist and Theremin scholar, Marla Goodman for a 2-hour workshop that transforms sound into imagery and back again! Goodman will demonstrate her use of graphical scores and graphical synthesis to transform pictures into sound. Participants can then create and interpret their own visual soundscapes using provided art materials, Theremin, and the Virtual ANS Synthesizer. (Bring your smart device to use the synthesizer app.) Registration is limited to 16 participants ages 16+ or 10+ with guardian.

Performance Event: “Dolly Vinyl, Thereminist: Misremembered Memoirs and Untouched Sounds,” is a multimedia presentation of storytelling, projections and live Theremin music, with Goodman in the persona of Thereminist Dolly Vinyl. Her live 1-hour show features wildly eclectic and visually enthralling selections, threaded on the narrative of her illustrious life as second fiddle in a now defunct “Fraternal Twin Thereminist” act. Miss Vinyl’s repertoire includes Theremin renditions of musical styles ranging from Sci-Fi, Experimental and Classical to Country Western. 

After Party: Meet the artist and try your own hand at playing the Theremin after the show at {{ place, time, date.}}

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Theremin Performer Dolly Vinyl

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Admission  ${{}} in advance/$xx at door

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In “Dolly Vinyl: Untouched Sounds and Misremembered Memoirs,” Theremin musician Dolly Vinyl (Marla Goodman) will perform a live 1-hour show featuring wildly eclectic and visually enthralling selections. Threaded on a narrative of her illustrious life as second fiddle in a now defunct “Fraternal Twin Thereminist” act, Vinyl’s show includes Theremin renditions of musical styles ranging from Sci-Fi, Experimental and Classical to Country Western. The Theremin is a gesture-controlled electronic instrument invented in the early 1900s.

{{If applicable}} After Party: Meet the artist and try your own hand at playing the Theremin after the show at {{place, time, date.}}

{{If applicable}} Theremin Art Workshop! “Drawing Sound” A 2-hour hands-on workshop with artist and Theremin scholar Marla Goodman will precede her Dolly Vinyl performance at {{time}} on {{day/date}}. After a short Theremin demonstration where Goodman uses art as a musical score, participants can create and interpret their own visual soundscapes using provided art materials, Theremin and virtual ANS synthesizer. (Bring a smart device or laptop if you want to install and use the free synthesizer app.) Registration is limited to 16 participants ages 16+ or 10+ with guardian. {{Admission, place, time, reservation info.}}.

Short Press Release (~130 words)

Theremin Performer at {{Place, Time, Date}}

Theremin performance artist Dolly Vinyl is coming to {{place}} in {{city}} at {{time}} on {{Day, Date, Year}}. Vinyl’s performance, “Untouched Sounds and Misremembered Memoirs,” is a live 1-hour show featuring wildly eclectic and visually enthralling selections. Threaded on a narrative of her illustrious (and comedic) life as second fiddle in a now defunct “Fraternal Twin Thereminist” act, Vinyl’s show includes Theremin renditions of musical styles ranging from Sci-Fi, Experimental and Classical to Country Western. The Theremin is a gesture-controlled electronic instrument invented in the early 1900s. A hands-on demo and Q/A with multi-persona artist and Theremin scholar, Marla Goodman (AKA Dolly Vinyl) will immediately follow the performance at  {{place}}. For info and reservations visit {{weblink, social media, etc.}}

Longer Press Release (~280 words)

Theremin Performer at {{Place, Time, Date}}

Theremin performance artist Dolly Vinyl is coming to {{place}} in {{city}} at {{time}} on {{Day, Date, Year}}. Vinyl’s 1-hour show features wildly eclectic and visually enthralling selections threaded on a narrative of her illustrious life as second fiddle in a now defunct “Fraternal Twin Thereminist” act. Miss Vinyl’s repertoire includes Theremin renditions of musical styles ranging from Sci-Fi, Experimental and Classical to Country Western. A hands-on demo and Q/A with multi-persona artist and Theremin scholar, Marla Goodman (AKA Dolly Vinyl) will immediately follow the performance at {{place}}.

The Theremin, one of the world’s oldest electronic instruments, creates music without being touched. But this strangely fascinating machine’s musical potential goes far beyond sci-fi sound tracks and whale sounds. Active in a small but vibrant international community of Theremin musicians, Marla Goodman studies the history and technique of the Theremin and performs repertoire ranging from the robot theme from Bernard Herrmann’s “The Day the Earth Stood Still” soundtrack to Mozart’s “Lacrimosa” and Tammy Wynette’s “Stand by Your Man.” After performances, Goodman is always happy to answer questions and even let you have a turn playing the Theremin!

Goodman’s primary instrument is the D-Lev, a digital hybrid Theremin. Designed by American telecom engineer Eric Wallin, the D-Lev combines a traditional Theremin with a digital synthesizer to offer unprecedented precision and versatility to a handful of the world’s top Theremin musicians. Goodman, whom Wallin described as “a key member of the D-Lev project,” is one of about 30 D-Lev Theremin users, worldwide.

Admission (${{} advance/${{}} door) includes the Theremin performance at {{place/date/time}} followed by the meet and greet at {{place, time}}. For info and reservations visit {{weblink, social media, etc.}}.

Short artist bio: Marla Goodman

Dolly Vinyl’s show revolves around Bozeman-based artist Marla Goodman’s 15-year obsession with the Theremin, an amazing gesture controlled electronic instrument that was invented in the early 1900s. A fifth-generation Montanan, grandmother and self-described community art activist, Goodman divides her creative time between “painting, practicing, and pretending.” Her performance includes music and projections drawn from her imaginary world as Theremin-playing twin sisters, Polly and Dolly Vinyl. The Vinyl sisters videos can be found on youtube @goodwerks youtube.com/user/goodwerks

Longer artist bio, Marla Goodman

“Dolly Vinyl: Misremembered Memoirs and Untouched Sounds,” is the work of Bozeman-based performance artist Marla Goodman. Goodman’s work revolves around her 15-year obsession with the Theremin and fantasies that arose from her experiences as a street performer on this strangely fascinating electronic instrument. (One of the first electronic instruments ever invented, the Theremin is played without being touched.) A fifth-generation Montanan, grandmother and self-described community art activist, Goodman divides her creative time between “painting, practicing, and pretending.” Her presentation includes music and imagery from Goodman’s imaginary world as fraternal twin Thereminists. Her performance features Goodman’s persona, Dolly Vinyl interpreting classic Theremin repertoire through a wildly fictional and darkly comedic family history.

An introverted person who attended a two-room Montana rural school and spent her formative years wandering the hills near Bozeman on horseback, Goodman is the last person anyone would expect to become immersed in performance art. That changed when she found a karaoke machine in her storage shed. “I had been learning to play the Theremin and I wanted to make Art Walk a little more colorful. I dressed up as a washed up Lawrence Welk Show champagne lady and played songs like “Hey Jude” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” in front of Cactus Records,” she said. The street performance costumes gradually morphed into distinct personalities drawn from Goodman’s ranch family heritage and her penchants for comedy and kitsch. Polly Vinyl, an incurable narcissist, and her longsuffering fraternal twin Dolly Vinyl, navigate the pitfalls of questionable child stardom through short stop-motion animations, YouTube videos, storytelling and live Theremin performance.

Though she received a BFA in painting from MSU in 1988, Goodman considers herself an outsider artist, generally preferring to organize and participate in art shows in places that reach out to “people who weren’t looking for art.” With musical influences rooted in folk and jazz, she became interested in the Theremin through her husband, David, a retired electrical engineer. Since 2018 she has studied the technique and history of the instrument in earnest, most recently with London-based Russian Theremin virtuosa, Lydia Kavina. Goodman has been featured on the Theremin 30 Podcast and televised on St. Petersburg’s “Thereminfest” Electronic Music Festival. She also enjoys recording soundtracks for independent films. She first performed with her real-life sisters in a folk/comedy group called The Existential Cowgirls and later founded the musical outreach community Bozeman Ukulele Cabaret. She frequently collaborates with Bozeman-based arts outreach nonprofit, Random Acts of Silliness.