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.
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