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The Bob Moog Foundation today announced that it was honoring what would have been the 74th birthday of synth pioneer Bob Moog with the release of a new synth CD, Amin Bhatia’s Virtuality.
The first half of Virtuality is comprised of ten tracks which transport the listener through an orchestral and electronic voyage through the [...]

 

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Planet Nerd’s Dan Walmsley talks to experimental composer David Shea about the history of the Doctor Who music and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

simonsound has announced a new radio series looking at the history of electronic music as a worldwide phenomenon.
The 10 part series, called The Tone Generation, is presented by electronic musician and film-maker Ian Helliwell. Starting in Europe and finishing in the Southern Hemisphere, Ian will be playing vintage tracks - some celebrated, many obscure and [...]

 

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Film teaser for the documentary What The Future Sounded Like - the story of the Electronic Music Studios and their impact on music history.

Great documentary on the BBC Radiophonic Workshop:
Electric Music Machine - Part 1

The New York Times has an article today about Herb Deutsch, looking at his collaboration with Bob Moog in the creation of the Moog synthesizer:
One night in January 1964, Herb Deutsch, an experimental composer from Long Island, and Robert Moog, an electrical engineer from upstate, sat with their wives at a little Italian restaurant in [...]

Here’s an old video demonstration of classic Mellotron sampling technology:

The Mellotron is an electromechanical polyphonic keyboard musical instrument originally developed and built in England in the early 1960s. Mellotrons used a series of tape playback heads triggered by a standard organ-style keyboard to create a crude but pioneering sample playback device.

The BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop was set up in 1958, born out of a desire to create ‘new kinds of sounds’. Alchemists of Sound looks at this creative group from its inception, through its golden age when it was supplying music and effects for cult classics like Doctor Who, Blake’s Seven and Hitchhiker’s Guide To The [...]

 

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Rhythm Science, by Paul D. Miller, AKA DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, is a fascinating and challenging book. It explores Miller’s ideas about Rhythm Science - the creation of art from the flow of patterns in culture.
The book focuses on the role of the DJ as a metaphor for the artists in today’s culture. DJ’s [...]

Switched On: Early Electronic Oddities, a 90-minute live radio show featuring Hypnotique, the UK’s leading cabaret thereminist/talk-show hostess, is now available online as streaming audio.
The show features recordings of early electronic instruments from 1860 to 1975, including the Trautonium, the RCA synthesizer, the Italian futurists, the electro-theremin, and the Radiophonic Workshop. It also includes live [...]