Pamelia Kurstin's *Live At Hopfenstange* captures the American thereminist in her element, performing at this Vienna institution in 2011 with the spatial clarity that only a live recording can preserve. The theremin—that ghostly, handless instrument—finds itself in contemporary conversation here, moving between the melodic legibility of "Japansk Melodi" and the more abstracted, three-dimensional sound-sculpting of pieces like "Beisl In 3D" and "Wirtshaus In 3D," where Kurstin treats the venue itself as an acoustic participant. Her approach honors both classical precision and electronic experimentalism, letting the theremin's voice bloom across these four pieces with an intimacy that studio work often softens. Recorded on vinyl by Merry X-mas Records, this is Kurstin's instrument in unflinching proximity—breathy, vulnerable, remarkably expressive.