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From:
Luis
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Baptiste Bacot
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Zombiefly , idm list ,
Date:
Fri, 25 Mar 2016 18:27:54 -0300
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Re: amazing video: The New Sound Of Music 1979 (part 4)
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hi, thank you for your attention! You know let me know if my work will be used by you? thank you so much 2016-03-24 20:30 GMT-03:00 Baptiste Bacot <baptiste.bacot@gmail.com>:
quoted 54 lines Thank you very much, precious document!> Thank you very much, precious document! > > B. > > > Le 24 mars 2016 à 22:58, Zombiefly <zombiefly@gmail.com> a écrit : > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJHtcWLhrX4&feature=youtu.be&t=297 > > The New Sound of Music is a fascinating BBC historical documentary from > the year 1979. It charts the development of recorded music from the first > barrel organs, pianolas, the phonograph, the magnetic tape recorder and > onto the concepts of musique concrete and electronic music development with > voltage-controlled oscillators making up the analogue synthesizers of the > day. EMS Synthesizers and equipment are a heavily featured technology > resource in this film, with the show's host, Michael Rodd, demonstrating > the EMS VCS3 synthesizer and it's waveform output. Other EMS products > include the incredible Synthi 100 modular console system, the EMS AKS, the > Poly Synthi and the EMS Vocoder. Most of the location shots are filmed > within the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop studios as they were in 1979. Malcolm > Clarke demonstrates the Synthi 100, also known as the "Delaware", Michael > Rodd demonstrates musique concrete by tape splicing and manipulation and > Paddy Kingsland demonstrates tape recorder delay techniques (also known as > "Frippertronics"). The Yamaha CS-80 analogue synthesizer is demonstrated by > both Peter Howell and Roger Limb. The EMS Vocoder is also expertly put to > use by Peter Howell on his classic "Greenwich Chorus" for the television > series "The Body in Question". Dick Mills works on sound effects for Doctor > Who using a VCS3 unit, and Elizabeth Parker uses bubble sounds to create > music for an academic film on particle physics. Peter Zinovieff is featured > using his computer music studio and DEC PDP8 computer to produce electronic > variations on classic vintage scores. David Vorhaus is featured using his > invention, the MANIAC (Multiphasic ANalog Inter-Active Chromataphonic > (sequencer)), and playing his other invention, the Kaleidophon -- which > uses lengths of magnetic tape as velocity-sensitive ribbon controllers. The > New Sound of Music is a fascinating insight into the birth of the world of > recorded and electronic music and features some very classic British > analogue synthesizers creating the electronic sounds in this film. The > prime location for these demonstrations is the BBC Radiophonic Workshop > where much creativity and invention took place during the period the > workshop was in operation in the latter part of the twentieth century. > Electronic music today is used everywhere, and many musicians gain > inspiration from the past, as well as delving into the realms of sonic > structures and theories made possible by the widespread use of computers to > manipulate sounds for the creation of all kinds of musical forms. > > eww. sorry for the formatting. > sorry if this has been posted before, i hadn't seen it. > -- > ---------------------------------------- > not sent from an iDevice > ---------------------------------------- > > >