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Craig Huxley demonstrates the blaster beam at a June 2012 screening of Star Trek: The Motion Picture in Los Angeles, CA. The blaster beam is a concept electric musical instrument consisting of a 12 to 18-foot (3.5 to 5.5 m) long metal beam strung with numerous tensed wires under which are mounted electric guitar pickups which can be moved to alter the sound produced.
The music to Nemesis was the final Star Trek score and penultimate film score composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith before his death in 2004 (not including his music for the 2003 film Timeline, which was rejected due to a complicated post-production process).
The "Theme from Star Trek" (originally scored under the title "Where No Man Has Gone Before") [1] is an instrumental musical piece composed by Alexander Courage for Star Trek, the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that originally aired between September 8, 1966, and June 3, 1969.
Some of the instrumental pieces, used to record the score, includes the ADS (Advanced Digital Synthesizer) 11, manufactured from Con Brio, Inc., [5] Blaster Beam, an electronic instrument 12 to 15 feet (3.7 to 4.6 m) long, [6] [7] created by musician Craig Huxley, [1]: 89 and several state-of-the-art synthesisers used as musical instruments, notably the Yamaha CS-80, ARP 2600, Oberheim OB-X ...
Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones also used the instrument on the group's 1967 albums Between the Buttons and Their Satanic Majesties Request. [51] Tesla guitarist Frank Hannon used a theremin in the band's song "Edison's Medicine" from the 1991 album Psychotic Supper. [52] Hannon is also seen using the instrument in the song's music video at ...
In the Star Trek universe, the Ressikan flute is an alien musical instrument played by Captain Picard. Resembling a tin whistle, it has been described as "one of the most iconic props in Trek history". [18] [19] [20]
For the first time in its 57-year existence, "Star Trek" made a musical episode. Our television critic and 'Star Trek' fan Robert Lloyd discusses the episode with reporter and musical theater ...
Goldsmith also composed the theme for the UPN series Star Trek: Voyager (which debuted in 1995) for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music. In 2020, Newsweek magazine said that the Voyager theme was the best of all Star Trek television series' theme songs. [53]