Electronic Music: Recent Episodes
Sound On Sound
Welcome to the Sound On Sound Electronic Music podcast. On this channel we feature some of the pioneers of the industry, interview musicians and talk about retro and current gear.
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Richard Evans has worked in the music industry for over thirty years in a variety of roles, including positions at London Records, Factory Records and MTV Europe. In 1998 he set up marketing consultancy The Fan Base and has been connecting musical artists with their audiences ever since. He is the founder of the This Is Not Retro website and record label and has worked for Andy Bell, Vince Clarke and Erasure since 2009.
During the pandemic, Richard set out to create a definitive record of electronic music during its earliest and most defining era, between 1978 and 1983. Instead of interviewing people with rose-tinted and distorted memories of that period, he instead decided to research the very magazines and publications being created as things happened to piece together an accurate record of the movement as it unfolded in real time.
See the Show Notes for further details.
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:16 - Why chose this 5-year period?
04:40 - What made you want to write this book?
12:17 - What do you consider milestone songs in electronic pop?
17:29 - Were producers and labels more important back then?
20:07 - Why was British electronic pop at the forefront of the movement?
28:00 - The impact of Bowie
31:29 - The influence of literature and politics on early electronic pop
35:05 - Witnessing electronic music live
40:00 - Will we ever see a musical revolution like that again?
44:05 - What did you learn about how underrepresented women were in this genre?
Richard Evans BiogRichard Evans has worked in the music industry for over thirty years in a variety of roles, including positions at London Records, Factory Records and MTV Europe. In 1998 he set up marketing consultancy The Fan Base and has been connecting musical artists with their audiences ever since. He is the founder of the This Is Not Retro website and record label and has worked for Andy Bell, Vince Clarke and Erasure since 2009. Richard is based in Dorset where he lives in perpetual fear of being asked what his favourite record is.
https://inventingelectronicpop.com/
Accompanying Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/ 31rfel5t6akji2obaa3g2bdyhpni
Rob Puricelli BiogRob Puricelli is a Music Technologist and Instructional Designer who has a healthy obsession with classic synthesizers and their history. In conjunction with former Fairlight Studio Manager, Peter Wielk, he fixes and restores Fairlight CMI’s so that they can enjoy prolonged and productive lives with new owners. He also writes reviews and articles for Sound On Sound, his website Failed Muso, and other music-related publications, as well as hosting a weekly livestream on YouTube for the Pro Synth Network and guesting on numerous music technology podcasts and shows. He also works alongside a number of manufacturers, demonstrating their products and lecturing at various educational and vocational establishments about music technology.
www.failedmuso.com Twitter: @failedmuso Instagram: @failedmuso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/failedmuso/
Alan R Pearlman was responsible for some of the greatest sounding and most intuitive synthesizers of the modern age, many of which are still highly sought after or emulated to this day. Inspired, as so many were, by hearing Wendy Carlos’s 'Switched on Bach', he founded Tonus in 1969, a company that would soon become ARP Instruments, and began producing synthesizers such as the legendary ARP 2500, 2600 and Odyssey.
Since his passing in 2019 at the age of 93, his daughter, Dina, has been building the Alan R Pearlman Foundation, an organisation that seeks to preserve her father’s legacy and enable as many people as possible to get hands-on with his inventions.
As with all not-for-profits, Dina has faced numerous challenges, but with the help of the likes of Jean Michel Jarre, Herbie Hancock and many other fans of Alan’s work, the Foundation is beginning to realise its objectives with great success.
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:18 - The Alan R. Pearlman Foundation
06:52 - The Main Aims Of The Foundation
09:12 - Women In The World Of Pioneering Synthesis
12:45 - Childhood Memories During The Early Days Of ARP
14:54 - Unearthed Footage Of The ARP Factory
23:27 - About ARPS For All
30:23 - The ARP Paradigm
34:27 - Collaborating With Bjooks
38:55 - Google Arts & Culture: Music Makers & Machines
40:47 - The Future For The Alan R. Pearlman Foundation
Dina Pearlman Biog
Dina is the only child of Alan and Buena Pearlman and grew up with ARP Synthesizers as a backdrop for her childhood, travelling extensively and being exposed to innovative and cutting-edge technology. In her early years, she spent time playing in rock and roll bands, as well as dance and theatre. For the past thirty years, she has worked as a versatile visual arts and design professional, creative director, and educator. She has also worked extensively in photography, graphics and web design for several decades, and has a broad understanding of visual communications media.
In the last few years before his illness, Alan Pearlman started to re-examine the brave new world of synthesizers that exists today, many decades after his iconic and groundbreaking 12 years as the inventor and founder of ARP Synthesizers. During this time, he brought his daughter into the conversation. After his death in January 2019, Dina realised the need of keeping his legacy and passion alive, and with the help and encouragement of many of his former colleagues as well as the wonderful Michelle Moog-Koussa, she started the Alan R. Pearlman Foundation and ARP Archives.
The Alan R Pearlman Foundation - https://alanrpearlmanfoundation.org/
All music composed, performed, recorded and performed by Alex Ball - https:// www.youtube.com/@AlexBallMusic
Rob Puricelli BiogRob Puricelli is a Music Technologist and Instructional Designer who has a healthy obsession with classic synthesizers and their history. In conjunction with former Fairlight Studio Manager, Peter Wielk, he fixes and restores Fairlight CMI’s so that they can enjoy prolonged and productive lives with new owners. He also writes reviews and articles for Sound On Sound, his website Failed Muso, and other music-related publications, as well as hosting a weekly livestream on YouTube for the Pro Synth Network and guesting on numerous music technology podcasts and shows. He also works alongside a number of manufacturers, demonstrating their products and lecturing at various educational and vocational establishments about music technology.
www.failedmuso.com Twitter: @failedmuso Instagram: @failedmuso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/failedmuso/
Chris Clark, known professionally as just Clark, reveals how he got signed to Warp Records, his recording and production workflow and how Thom Yorke ended up as a guest vocalist on his latest album, Sus Dog.
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:36 - Getting Signed To Warp Records
03:45 - Recording Workflow
05:08 - Updating Equipment
07:35 - Early Musical Influences
09:35 - Switching Over To Software
10:40 - Hardware Still In The Studio
12:37 - Limiting Plug-in Use
16:52 - Collaborating And Working Solo
19:21 - Sus Dog And Thom Yorke
23:33 - Live Performances
27:47 - Learning About Other Producers
30:07 - Additional Projects
33:49 - Preparing The Next Album
Clark Biog
Chris Clark signed to legendary British indie label Warp Records at an early age and has to date released thirteen albums as well as a multitude of EPs and singles. His recent studio album ‘Playground In A Lake’ for the legendary classical label Deutsche Grammophon, fused his trademark electronics with strings from acclaimed cellist Oliver Coates, violinist Rakhi Singh and the Budapest Art Orchestra.
Following his 2015 debut score for Sky / Canal+ TV series ‘The Last Panthers’ (John Hurt / Samantha Morton, dir: Johan Renck, written: Jack Thorne), he scored ‘Rellik’ for BBC1 / HBO (Richard Lancaster dir: Sam Miller, written: Harry & Jack Williams) and breakout Channel 4 / Hulu drama ‘Kiri’ (Sarah Lancashire, dir: Euros Lynn, written by Jack Thorne).
Recently he scored Apple TV+’s ‘Lisey’s Story’ (Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, dir. Pablo Larraín) based on Stephen King’s novel, as well as ‘Daniel Isn’t Real’ (Patrick Schwarzenegger, Miles Robbins, dir. Adam Mortimer) a psychological horror feature film by Spectre Vision, producers of cult Nick Cage hit ‘Mandy’. The film’s OST was also released by Deutsche Grammophon.
Chris has collaborated with choreographer Melanie Lane, scoring no less than twelve contemporary dance projects including the performance of her solo project ‘Tilted Fawn’ at the Sydney Opera House and most recently ‘Personal Effigies’ which won the Kier Choreographic Prize in March 2018 and ‘WOOF’ for the prestigious Sydney Dance Company.
Chris’ extensive inventory of remixes for the likes of Thom Yorke, Massive Attack, Depeche Mode, Max Richter, Battles and Nils Frahm were collected in 2013 on the ‘Feast / Beast’ double album.
https://throttleclark.com/
Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. Her self-produced fourth album 'Electric Mountain' is out now. Described as a "one-woman electronic avalanche" (BBC), Caro started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to the likes of Warp Records in the late 1990's. This 'sonic enchantress' (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.
URL: http://carocsound.com/
Twitter: @carocsound Inst: @carocsound
FB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:12 - Current Projects
03:23 - Lumière - Working With Lasers
06:49 - Building The Performance Software
08:54 - The Beginnings Of Ableton
11:37 - The Overlap Between Artist And Engineer
17:12 - Working With Audio Loops
20:49 - Making Software More Accessible
27:16 - Developing A Unique Sound
30:18 - Working Without Compression
36:27 - 8-Bit: The CBM 8032 AV Performance
Robert Henke Biog
Robert Henke's work is not easy to describe in a single sentence, and that already says a lot about what fascinates him: complexity and detail, often emerging from seemingly simple processes. Henke is a software developer, fascinated by the inherent beauty and elegance of technical constructions, and co-founder of music software company Ableton where he still plays an active role in the development department. Henke is a Berlin based electronic music producer who blurs the boundaries between club and listening since the mid 1990s. Henke is a visual artist often working with lasers to create audiovisual performances and installations. And Henke is teaching and writing about computer based audiovisual art and in general is a very nice person happy to share his knowledge.
https://www.roberthenke.com/
Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. Her self-produced fourth album "Electric Mountain" is out now. Described as a "one-woman electronic avalanche" (BBC), Caro started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to the likes of Warp Records in the late 1990's. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.
URL: http://carocsound.com/
Twitter: @carocsound Inst: @carocsound
FB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/
Chapters00:00 - Introduction
01:02 - Ferrum 7 music track
02:09 - Starting Out As A DJ
08:55 - Becoming A Music Producer
13:18 - Founding female:pressure
20:38 - An International Support Network
23:50 - Musical Styles
27:15 - Current Projects
29:57 - Ableton and Modular
31:10 - Working In Multi-Channel Audio
34:39 - Future Plans
Electric Indigo Biog Electric Indigo, DJ, composer, musician has performed in 45 countries across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. She represents an intelligent and distinguished interpretation of techno and electronic music. In 1998 she founded the transnational female:pressure network for which she received an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronic in 2009. The Republic of Austria awarded her with the Kunstpreis Musik in 2020. Electric Indigo premiered her compositions at festivals like Wien Modern, Musikprotokoll, CTM or Heroines of Sound and composed for Klangforum Wien. Her debut album “5 1 1 5 9 3” came out on Imbalance Computer Music, followed by "Ferrum" on Editions Mego in 2020. “Brittle” was released on Ventil Records in 2022.https://indigo-inc.at/
Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. Her self-produced fourth album "Electric Mountain" is out now. Described as a "one-woman electronic avalanche" (BBC), Caro started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to the likes of Warp Records in the late 1990's. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.
URL: http://carocsound.com/
Twitter: @carocsound Inst: @carocsound
FB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/
Chapters
01:47 - What was the inspiration behind the album, “Imaginary Trains”?
05:06 - How did you come up with the idea for the live broadcast?
10:51 - What instruments did you choose from the EMEAPP collection
20:10 - How did you go about replacing the studio parts with the gear you chose?
22:44 - Did any instrument daunt you?
27:07 - Behind the scenes...
30:19 - The choice between live and sequenced
34:01 - Rehearsal and preparation
35:42 - Gear Acquisition Syndrome! (G.A.S.)
39:10 - Did any of these old machines let you down?
39:50 - Would you do this again?
41:55 - Future projects
Michael Whalen BiogAfter more than 30 years as one of the top television and film composers, an an internationally renown recording artist, a music supervisor, artist coach/client and former record label executive, his music has been heard by billions and billions of people. He has accumulated more than 800 million streams from all worldwide music platforms since 2015. His musical output is enormous and ranges from ambient/new age to jazz to soundtrack/theme music, world music, singer/songwriter, classical and crossover.
Michael is an expert on copyright law, music monetisation and digital rights. He consults with major technology and music companies and mentors artists around the world as part of his company Artist Expansion. As a teacher, he has been an adjunct professor at NYU, The Berklee College of Music, and The City College of NY. Michael is also an author, thought leader on the future on digital copyrights and panelist at dozens of major conferences and festivals.
https://www.michaelwhalen.com/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ugFiMYlr0https://emeapp.org/
Rob Puricelli BiogRob Puricelli is a Music Technologist and Instructional Designer who has a healthy obsession with classic synthesizers and their history. In conjunction with former Fairlight Studio Manager, Peter Wielk, he fixes and restores Fairlight CMI’s so that they can enjoy prolonged and productive lives with new owners. He also writes reviews and articles for Sound On Sound, his website Failed Muso, and other music-related publications, as well as hosting a weekly livestream on YouTube for the Pro Synth Network and guesting on numerous music technology podcasts and shows. He also works alongside a number of manufacturers, demonstrating their products and lecturing at various educational and vocational establishments about music technology.
www.failedmuso.com Twitter: @failedmuso Instagram: @failedmuso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/failedmuso/
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:04 - Collaborations
04:13 - Replacing Tape With Digital
06:29 - The Move Into Computers
08:03 - The Launch of EMS
14:31 - Running A Studio From Home
16:16 - Working In Raasay
18:19 - The VCS3 And Synthi
20:05 - Copies And Virtual Versions
22:50 - Creativity Post EMS
26:49 - Lucy Railton
Peter Zinovieff Biog
Peter Zinovieff has been described as Britain’s Bob Moog. A renowned composer from the mid ‘60s to the present day, he was one of the founders of EMS who produced seminal synthesizers such as the VCS3 and the Synthi AKS, as used by Brian Eno, Pink Floyd and the Chemical Brothers.
James Gardner Biog
James Gardner is a composer, synthesizer programmer, researcher, and broadcaster based in Auckland, New Zealand. Born in Liverpool, James played and programmed synthesizers in London during the 1980s, and in 1990 co-founded the band/remix team Apollo 440. Following encouragement from Michael Finnissy, he left the group in 1993 to concentrate on notated composition. Moving to New Zealand in 1994, he established the contemporary music ensemble 175 East, which he directed until 2010.
As well as composing, he has written and presented many programmes for RNZ Concert including features on Frank Zappa, Morton Feldman, John Barry’s James Bond soundtracks, and These Hopeful Machines – a six-part series on electronic music.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/concert/programmes/hopefulmachines
As a teacher, Gardner has lectured on music and music technology at the University of Auckland, Unitec Institute of Technology and the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, where he is an Adjunct Senior Fellow. His primary research topic is the synthesizer company EMS, and the electronic music studio of Peter Zinovieff.
Website: https://www.gardnercomposer.com/
Twitter: @JEGcomposer
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/organised-sound/article/don-banks-music-box-to-the-putney-the-genesis-and-development-of-the-vcs3-synthesiser/38928808A05A6F2118B148CE302E3764
https://modular-station.com/modulisme/itatiom/ems-1/
Chapters00:00 - Introduction
01:34 - Defining Career Moments
08:31 - The Gear Used By The Grid
10:27 - Musical Trajectory
20:35 - Favourite Equipment
25:58 - Interesting Collaborations
32:04 - Immersive Audio
35:51 - Future Projects
Richard Norris Biog
Richard Norris has been recording, producing and releasing music for more than four decades. Richard started out in a post punk band, recording his first single at the age of 13, before diving into acid house as co-producer of Jack The Tab, one of the UK's first acid house compilations. He then formed The Grid with Soft Cell's Dave Ball, who went on to have 10 UK hit singles, including the Balearic classic Floatation and the million-selling Swamp Thing. He collaborated with Erol Alkan for the Beyond The Wizards Sleeve project and released two solo albums as the Time and Space Machine.
Richard has remixed hundreds of artists including Brian Eno, David Sylvian, Pet Shop Boys, Yello, Erasure, Tame Impala, Warpaint and many more, plus has collaborated with Robert Fripp, Marc Almond, Joe Strummer, Sun Ra and a host of others. He is currently working on his Group Mind label, which releases ambient, electronic and deep listening music, as well as continuing his remix, production and live work. His memoir, Strange Things Are Happening, will be released in 2024.
https://richardnorris.bandcamp.com/
Caro C BiogDescribed as a "one-woman electronic avalanche" (BBC) and a "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3), Caro has been making her own brand of sensual electronica since the late 90's, reared on a diet of black music, Warp Records and Bjork. Caro currently finds herself in ample musical mischief in the Manchester creative mycelium and beyond - making music, teaching, producing podcasts as well as being the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.
URL: http://carocsound.com/
Twitter: @carocsound Inst: @carocsound
FB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/
Chapters00:30 - Introduction
02:01 - Sound Artist And Soundtrack Composer
03:38 - Working With Brands
04:58 - Creating A Sensory Journey
08:00 - Recording Skin
09:10 - Getting Started In Sound Design
11:58 - Studying In Shanghai
13:03 - Learning To Listen
16:22 - Musique Concrète
17:25 - Production Techniques
19:11 - Working With Zoom
25:11 - Other Hardware and Software
27:08 - Creating A Real-Time Soundtrack
30:14 - The Lavazza Project
35:12 - Working In Immersive Audio
35:45 - Favourite Plug-ins
37:57 - Future Projects
Chiara Luzzana Biog
Chiara Luzzana studied classical music as a child and later took a course in audio engineering specializing in musical cognition at Berklee College of Music. She started her career in cinema and advertising but in 2013 won an artistic residency in Shanghai.
During this time she started a personal sound design project, gathering more than 2400 samples from Swatch watches and building a soundtrack, which would later become the official music of Swatch stores around the world and also of the Venice Biennale, a prestigious international cultural exhibition hosted in Venice, Italy.
Following this success, Chiara has been invited to create soundtracks for a number of high profile brands.
https://www.chiaraluzzana.com/
Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. Her self-produced fourth album "Electric Mountain" is out now. Described as a "one-woman electronic avalanche" (BBC), Caro started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to the likes of Warp Records in the late 1990's. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.
URL: http://carocsound.com/
Twitter: @carocsound Inst: @carocsound
FB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/
Chapters
00:30 - Introduction
01:29 - What was your path into the industry?
10:17 - The importance of ABC and meeting Anne and Gary
13:18 - Duck Rock and the McLaren Influence
16:38 - Don’t be a drummer, be a programmer
20:16 - You don’t say no to Yes
27:14 - Yes embracing the Fairlight
28:37 - The birth of Art of Noise
34:19 - Into Battle!
35:45 - In demand
38:51 - The weight of influence
46:53 - Taking Art of Noise on the road, then and now
Photo Credit: Marc Pinder
Art of Noise Online: https://theartofnoiseonline.com
Art of Silence: http://www.artofsilence.co.uk
JJ Jeczalik BiogJonathan Edward Stephen Jeczalik fell into the music industry during a gap year whilst staying with friends in London. He promoted a gig by the group Landscape, featuring the similarly technology obsessed Richard James Burgess before eventually coming to the attention of Trevor Horn via his Buggles bandmate, Geoff Downes.
During the 1980s, he worked on numerous projects that were both innovative and influential as well as hugely successful, including ABC’s Lexicon of Love, Malcolm McLaren’s Duck Rock, Yes’ 90125 and Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s debut, Welcome to the Pleasuredome. He also worked with artists ranging from Kate Bush to Paul McCartney, Scritti Politti to Godley & Creme and Pet Shop Boys to Shakin’ Stevens!
JJ left the industry and became a teacher of ICT until his retirement but has since revived his music career, performing live under numerous variations of the Art of Noise name at venues such as the British Library and the hugely successful Let’s Rock 80s revival festivals.
Rob Puricelli BiogRob Puricelli is a Music Technologist and Instructional Designer who has a healthy obsession with classic synthesizers and their history. In conjunction with former Fairlight Studio Manager, Peter Wielk, he fixes and restores Fairlight CMI’s so that they can enjoy prolonged and productive lives with new owners. He also writes reviews and articles for Sound On Sound, his own website, Failed Muso, and other music-related publications, as well as hosting a weekly livestream on YouTube for the Pro Synth Network and guesting on numerous music technology podcasts and shows. He also works alongside a number of manufacturers, demonstrating their products and lecturing at various educational and vocational establishments about music technology.
www.failedmuso.com Twitter: @failedmuso Instagram: @failedmuso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/failedmuso/
Chapters00:31 - Introduction
02:16 - Musical Path
07:19 - Using Electronic Instruments
08:26 - Favourite Synths
09:45 - Software and Hardware
10:39 - Projects and Nominations
14:42 - The Mercury Nomination
16:03 - Performing Live
17:54 - Combining Electronica And Orchestral
20:59 - Composing For The Paraorchestra
23:05 - Working With Software and Live Musicians
27:20 - Favourite Tools
29:58 - Combining Film and TV Work With Album Releases
33:47 - The Composing Process
40:02 - Learning Production Skills
Hannah Peel Biog
Hannah Peel is a Northern Irish artist, composer, producer and broadcaster. Her solo record career includes the shortlisted 2021 Mercury Music Prize electronic album, Fir Wave; 2016's Awake But Always Dreaming, which became an ode to her grandmother’s mind as she lived with dementia; and the space-themed Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia, scored for synthesizers and a 30 piece colliery brass band. A regular collaborator with Paul Weller, in 2018 she conducted and wrote all the orchestral arrangements for his shows at London's Royal Festival Hall and contributed to his Number 1 album, On Sunset.
Following her Emmy-nominated score for Game Of Thrones: The Last Watch, Hannah is currently composing the music for Sky TV's 7-part series Midwich Cuckoos and releasing a new album The Unfolding with Paraorchestra. She is also a regular presenter on the BBC Radio 3 show, Night Tracks.
www.hannahpeel.com
Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. Her self-produced fourth album "Electric Mountain" is out now. Described as a "one-woman electronic avalanche" (BBC), Caro started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to the likes of Warp Records in the late 1990's. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.
URL: http://carocsound.com/
Twitter: @carocsound Inst: @carocsound
FB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
00:37 - How did you get your first big break?
02:34 - Was joining Jamiroquai daunting?
03:20 - What was your keyboard rig in those early days?
04:11 - Are workstations an important part of your rig?
04:55 - How did you get to write with Jay Kay?
07:27 - What are you up to outside of Jamiroquai?
08:41 - What’s your rig in 2022?
11:23 - Dream gigs
12:58 - The YouTube explosion
18:20 - What new synths have stood out to you in recent years?
24:06 - What would you like to see happen in synthesizer technology next?
27:24 - Matt’s home studio
31:48 - Sound design
All music composed and performed by Matt Johnson © Matt Johnson Music
Matt Johnson BiogFor the last 20 years Matt has been the keyboard player for Jamiroquai, co-writing most of the band's output during that time and co- producing the last album ‘Automaton’.
In between working with the band he has recorded as a session player with numerous artists in many genres including Duffy, Ashanti, J.P.Cooper, Jax Jones, S.G.Lewis, Purple Disco Machine, Newton Faulkner, Nolwenn Leroy, Will Young and many more.
Now Matt has released his debut solo record ‘With the Music’ under the Splash Blue label, with a retro Jazz Funk feel.
https://www.mattjohnsonproducer.com/
Rob Puricelli BiogRob Puricelli is a Music Technologist and Instructional Designer who has a healthy obsession with classic synthesizers and their history. In conjunction with former Fairlight Studio Manager, Peter Wielk, he fixes and restores Fairlight CMI’s so that they can enjoy prolonged and productive lives with new owners. He also writes reviews and articles for his website, failedmuso.com, and other music-related publications, as well as hosting a weekly livestream on YouTube for the Pro Synth Network and guesting on numerous music technology podcasts and shows. He also works alongside a number of manufacturers, demonstrating their products and lecturing at various educational and vocational establishments about music technology.
www.failedmuso.com Twitter: @failedmuso Instagram: @failedmuso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/failedmuso/
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:30 - Classical And Folk Beginnings
00:00 - Discovering Electronic Music
07:52 - Studying Infrasound
12:26 - The Brown Note
14:40 - Augmenting Acoustic Sounds
17:46 - Using The Theremin As A Controller
19:28 - The Bela Board
20:48 - Using Robotics In Performances
26:20 - The Science Museum and Daphne Oram
30:05 - Radio 4 And Echo
33:58 - Current Projects
35:28 - Working With Synthesizers
Sarah Angliss BiogSarah Angliss is an Ivor Novello Award winning composer, performer and robotic artist working in television, film, on the live concert stage and in theatres across Europe and North America. Her recent work includes the music for Romola Garai’s feature film Amulet - a terse, electroacoustic score which explores the sonorities of voices and ancient instruments, revealing and augmenting them with Sarah’s distinctive digital and electronic techniques.
Sarah’s music draws on her lifelong interest in European folksong, cybernetics and esoteric sound culture. These inspire her progressive and strikingly original music. Her work reflects an eclectic musical background. A classically-trained composer who specialised in baroque and renaissance music, Sarah cut her teeth performing on the UK folk scene. Her desire to get inside notes and finely manipulate sound then build her own automatic music machines led her to study electroacoustic engineering, then robotics, alongside music – fields that continue to inform her unique compositional style. Sarah received the Visionary Award from the Ivors Academy in 2021 and a Paul Hamlyn Award for Composers in 2018.
Website: www.sarahangliss.com
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/sarahangliss
Twitter: @sarah_angliss
Instagram: @sarah_angliss
Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. Her self-produced fourth album "Electric Mountain" is out now. Described as a "one-woman electronic avalanche" (BBC), Caro started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to the likes of Warp Records in the late 1990's. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.
URL: http://carocsound.com/
Twitter: @carocsound Inst: @carocsound
FB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:18 - Composing For Patreon and YouTube
03:04 - Chiptunes
05:47 - Patreon Supporters
06:59 - Developing A Sound
11:00 - Working With Older Machines
13:39 - Expanding The Synth Collection
17:02 - Demosceners / Trackers
22:26 - Working With Nina
24:14 - Creating The Stepper Acid Sequencer
30:55 - The Drum Machine
32:23 - Customers And The Manufacturing Process
38:02 - Using Stepper Acid Live
41:21 - Future Plans
43:45 - Ending
Zoë Blade BiogAs a teenager, Zoë Blade sampled household objects into Impulse Tracker, twisting them into rhythmic alien soundscapes. Not quite music, but not quite not, the result was a bizarre example of outsider art.
She's since honed her aesthetic into something more polished but no less unique, fusing catchy melodies and rhythms with the untamed sound of her sprawling modular synthezisers.
She's currently making music for popular YouTube series ContraPoints, as well as her patrons at patreon.com/zoeblademusic and is also involved with Nina in the Transistor Sounds Labs company.https://www.zoeblade.com/
Nina Richards BiogNina Richards is the kind of musician who always likes to dive a level deeper. Always looking to improve the tools available, she designed and built Stepper Acid, a modular sequencer loosely based on the TB-303, but geared more towards live performance.
This was well received by other musicians too, and has been used by the likes of Nine Inch Nails's Trent Reznor and Underworld's Rick Smith.
The product is marketed through her Transistor Sounds Labs company.
In addition to her solo work, Nina is also known for writing music for actress Abigail Thorn's YouTube channel Philosophy Tube.https://www.ninarichards.co.uk/
Stepper AcidStepper Acid is a 16-step Eurorack sequencer module designed with live performance in mind, designed and built as a collaboration between Nina Richards and Zoë Blade.https://www.transistorsoundslabs.com
Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. Her self-produced fourth album "Electric Mountain" is out now. Described as a "one-woman electronic avalanche" (BBC), Caro started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to the likes of Warp Records in the late 1990's. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.
URL: http://carocsound.com/
Twitter: @carocsound Inst: @carocsound
FB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:35 - How Public Service Broadcasting Began
03:48 - Sharing Voices From The Past
05:19 - Musical Equipment Used
06:50 - Inspired By Analogue Instruments
08:39 - Composition Methods
10:12 - Deckard's Dream Synth
11:56 - Mixing 200 Tracks
12:56 - Using Featured Vocalists
16:54 - Additional Audio Elements
20:41 - Editing The Samples
22:16 - Intellectual Property
25:39 - Performing Live
31:00 - Accompanying Visuals
33:22 - Tech Support In The SOS Forum
Public Service Broadcasting Biog
Public Service Broadcasting is an award-winning London-based group founded by J. Willgoose, Esq. The band are known for using archival samples from the British Film Institute to create concept albums around the Battle Of Britain, Everest and the British coal industry. Their second album, The Race for Space, was supported by two shows at the National Space Centre in Leicester and the album charted at number 11 in the UK, reaching Number 1 in the UK Independent Charts. Their third release, Every Valley (with James Dean Bradfield of Manic Street Preachers) reached number 4 on the UK charts. Their recently released fourth album, Bright Magic, was recorded at the Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin.
PSB perform live using a wide range of both electric and electronic instruments and samples. They have toured internationally, appeared at the BBC Music "Big Weekend" and in a late-night Prom in 2019 joined by London Contemporary Voices and the Multi-Story Orchestra, televised by the BBC the following evening.
https://www.publicservicebroadcasting.net/
Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. Her self-produced fourth album "Electric Mountain" is out now. Described as a "one-woman electronic avalanche" (BBC), Caro started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to the likes of Warp Records in the late 1990's. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.
URL: http://carocsound.com/
Twitter: @carocsound Inst: @carocsound
FB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:00 - What was the inspiration for this book?
03:12 - What was the process of whittling your list down?
07:24 - Why no modular synths?
09:59 - Were there any synths that you wanted but couldn’t find decent examples of?
12:24 - How did you check and verify your accuracy?
20:06 - How did you come up with the essay format?
22:56 - What challenges did you face when photographing the synths featured?
28:40 - What prompted the inclusion of an introduction to synthesizers?
37:24 - Which is the one instrument in this book you HAD to have in there?
43:36 - Did you ever consider including audio examples?
45:17 - Can you offer any insights into what may appear in Synth Gems 2?
Mike Metlay Biog
After attaining a Ph.D in Nuclear Structure Physics, and eschewing a career in that most technical of scientific fields, Dr Mike Metlay worked for ‘Recording, The Magazine for the Recording Musician’, for over 20 years, the last five of which were as Editor. It allowed him to indulge in his passion for electronic music, and the making of it, through many mediums such as writing, creating and performing. This eventually led him to become Editor-in-Chief at Bjooks, a highly-respected publishing house specialising in luxurious and detailed tomes on the subjects of synthesizers and music technology.
https://bjooks.comhttps://bjooks.com/products/synth-gems-1-exploring-vintage-synthesizershttps://www.mrspiral.com
Rob Puricelli Biog
Rob Puricelli is a Music Technologist and Instructional Designer who has a healthy obsession with classic synthesizers and their history. In conjunction with former Fairlight Studio Manager, Peter Wielk, he fixes and restores Fairlight CMIs so that they can enjoy prolonged and productive lives with new owners. He also writes reviews and articles for his website, failedmuso.com, and other music-related publications, as well as hosting a weekly livestream on YouTube for the Pro Synth Network and guesting on numerous music technology podcasts and shows. He also works alongside a number of manufacturers, demonstrating their products and lecturing at various educational and vocational establishments about music technology.
www.failedmuso.comhttps://www.youtube.com/c/prosynthnetwork Twitter: @failedmuso Instagram: @failedmuso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/failedmuso/
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
00:36 - Where did it all begin?
05:58 - How did you get into sound design?
09:53 - How did the idea of the DiN label come about?
13:05 - What makes it on to the label?
14:43 - What was behind the Tone Science series of releases?
18:07 - How have services like Bandcamp empowered labels?
22:39 - The 100th DiN release, Nevermore
26:13 - What was the inspiration behind Nevermore and what was used to create it?
28:17 - What’s your story with the Analogue Systems French Connection?
31:44 - What are your thoughts on expressive synthesizers?
32:55 - Are there any more live performance recordings coming soon?
34:39 - What’s your personal favourite DiN release of the 100 so far?
35:56 - What are the plans for the next 100 DiN releases?
37:15 - What’s coming up in terms of live performances in the future?
38:58 - What instruments are inspiring you right now?
Ian Boddy Biog Composer, sound designer, DiN ambient music label owner & analogue synth aficionado.
Ian Boddy first got into composing music in the late 70’s in Newcastle upon Tyne, England whilst studying for a degree in Biochemistry. Having fallen in love with the sound-worlds of German electronic bands such as Tangerine Dream, he came across an arts centre that housed a studio filled with reel-to-reel tape machines and analogue synthesisers. Boddy taught himself how to use this equipment through a process of experimentation, thus began a long and successful music career.
Specialising in ambient and electronic music, Boddy has three main strands to his musical activities which are run under the umbrella of his own company, Something Else Music Limited.
Sound Design:
Worked with Zero-G since 1992 to release a series of critically acclaimed sample libraries such as Ambient Volumes 1 & 2, Malice in Wonderland, Ambiosis & Dreamzone.
Released 3 Kontakt virtual instruments Morphology, Analogue Sequencer Loops & Outer Limits. In 2008 set up his own brand of downloadable sound libraries under the Ian Boddy Waveforms banner with 4 releases to date. Also done extensive sound design/synth programming work for Native Instruments, Camel Audio, Soniccouture, Sample Magic & LinPlug.
Library Music:
Worked with DeWolfe Music since 1997 releasing over 20 albums with titles such as Waterworlds, Drones, Living Planet, The Unexplained & The Weather. In total this represents over 500 pieces which have been used extensively in TV, radio, film & documentaries in the UK, Europe, Japan & North America.
DiN:
Although Boddy has been releasing music since 1980 his main focus since 1999 has been the DiN ambient electronica label. With the release of “Nevermore” the label has released 100 albums with artists such as Chris Carter, Robert Rich, Tetsu Inoue, Markus Reuter, Erik Wøllo, Scanner & ARC. Boddy has performed concerts in the UK, The Netherlands, Germany & USA.
https://ianboddy.comhttps://din.org.ukhttps://dinrecords.bandcamp.comhttps://din.org.uk/album/nevermore-din69
Audio clips used in this podcast are taken from the album, ‘Nevermore’, performed by Ian Boddy.
Rob Puricelli BiogRob Puricelli is a Music Technologist and Instructional Designer who has a healthy obsession with classic synthesizers and their history. In conjunction with former Fairlight Studio Manager, Peter Wielk, he fixes and restores Fairlight CMI’s so that they can enjoy prolonged and productive lives with new owners. He also writes reviews and articles for his website, failedmuso.com, and other music-related publications, as well as hosting a weekly livestream on YouTube for the Pro Synth Network and guesting on numerous music technology podcasts and shows. He also works alongside a number of manufacturers, demonstrating their products and lecturing at various educational and vocational establishments about music technology.
www.failedmuso.com Twitter: @failedmuso Instagram: @failedmuso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/failedmuso/
Chapters
00:38 - Introduction
02:08 - Developing A Unique Sound
08:12 - Early Projects
09:07 - Analogue Noise
13:07 - Modular Synthesis
14:37 - Kosmo Modules
16:22 - This Museum Is Not Obsolete
18:31 - Interactive Installations
21:35 - The 1000 Oscillator Megadrone
23:30 - The Crystal Palace Electro Magnetic Sonic Sequencer
27:29 - Other Electronic Projects
28:27 - Musical Projects
30:04 - The Recording Process
32:59 - Working With Patreon
Sam Battle BiogFrom his early interest in electronics and '80s synth-pop to setting up a museum showcasing obsolete electronic and music technology, Sam Battle, who goes under the moniker Look Mum No Computer, is carving out a unique niche for himself.
Known as both an Inventor and Musician and with a strong Patreon following and almost half a million YouTube subscribers, Sam makes a feature of reworking old technology to create new and interesting sounds. He has repurposed discarded Teletubbies, Furbies and Speak & Spell's to create various interactive projects, which are used in his musical compositions and are also featured at his museum in Ramsgate, Kent, England.
https://www.lookmumnocomputer.com/
https://www.patreon.com/lookmumnocomputer
https://this-museum-is-not-obsolete.com/
Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. Her self-produced fourth album "Electric Mountain" is out now. Described as a "one-woman electronic avalanche" (BBC), Caro started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to the likes of Warp Records in the late 1990's. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.
URL: http://carocsound.com/
Twitter: @carocsound Inst: @carocsound
FB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/
Chapters
00:38 - Introduction
01:50 - Where did your career start?
04:01 - What sparked your interest in physical modelling?
05:45 - How do you begin to create a physical model?
08:28 - What do you use to create your physical models?
11:54 - When using modular to create models, what modules would one require?
14:32 - Are you using modelling to recreate or create anew?
21:51 - What other methods of modelling exist?
24:01 - Why do you think physical modelling didn’t catch on?
29:49 - What’s the future for physical modelling?
33:24 - What methods do you use to perform with your physical models?
37:17 - How can someone begin to get into physical modelling today?
https://sites.google.com/site/davebessellmusic/
https://soundcloud.com/dave-bessell
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg9nVhVYQ2bp9h6BE5MWpTQ
https://din7d.bandcamp.com/album/tone-science-no-2-elements-and-particles
https://din.org.uk/album/node-live-din55
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karplus-Strong_string_synthesis
http://www.ron-berry.co.uk/page6.html
David Bessell BiogBefore studying at the Royal College of Music, where he covered orchestration and composition, the latter of which he carried on at the Guildhall, David Bessell first made a name for himself as a session musician, arranger and programmer for bands such as Killing Joke and Suede. As a solo artist and as one quarter of analogue synthesizer quartet Node (alongside Flood, Ed Buller and Mel Wesson, who took over from Gary Stout), he has made a name for himself as a highly experimental musician with a particular interest in physical modelling, exploring the creation of tones that sound and behave like natural acoustic instruments, or in some cases, sound like nothing physically possible in the real world.
Rob Puricelli BiogRob Puricelli is a Music Technologist and Instructional Designer who has a healthy obsession with classic synthesizers and their history. In conjunction with former Fairlight Studio Manager, Peter Wielk, he fixes and restores Fairlight CMI’s so that they can enjoy prolonged and productive lives with new owners. He also writes reviews and articles for his website, failedmuso.com, and other music-related publications, as well as hosting a weekly livestream on YouTube for the Pro Synth Network and guesting on numerous music technology podcasts and shows. He also works alongside a number of manufacturers, demonstrating their products and lecturing at various educational and vocational establishments about music technology.
www.failedmuso.com Twitter: @failedmuso Instagram: @failedmuso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/failedmuso/
Chapters
00:34 - Introduction
01:44 - The Early Years
06:15 - Rock Music Influence
09:25 - Ron Hardy, Trax Records & DJ Pierre
11:02 - Replacing Stolen Equipment
12:17 - Logic and Roland Cloud
13:53 - The Ten City Album
14:20 - Incorporating Binaural
16:10 - Composing Alone
18:37 - Working On Headphones
23:21 - Sonic Improvements
25:13 - Market Saturation
27:43 - Females In Electronic Music
29:59 - Future Projects
Marshall Jefferson BiogMarshall Jefferson has been a key player in the house music genre. Starting out in the Chicago house scene, his early tracks like ‘Open Our Eyes’ and ‘7 Ways to Jack’ were put out on the TRAX Records label and made an impact on the scene, but it was his use of piano in ‘Move Your Body’ that bought wider attention to his work.
Since those early years, Marshall has helped to develop the acid house movement with his work on ‘Acid Trax’ with DJ Pierre in 1987. He also turned his hand to deep house, most notably on ‘Open Our Eyes’, released in 1988 on Big Beat. He headlined the first House Music Tour of Europe in 1987 and in the 90s did a five-year residency with the Tribal Gathering and Big Love Events in London, during which time he released his 1997 studio album Day Of The Onion.
In 2021, Marshall teamed up with Byron Stingily to release a new album 'Judgement' under the Ten City band name, their first collaboration in 25 years.
https://www.beatport.com/artist/ten-city/39865
Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. Her self-produced fourth album "Electric Mountain" is out now. Described as a "one-woman electronic avalanche" (BBC), Caro started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to the likes of Warp Records in the late 1990's. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.
URL: http://carocsound.com/
Twitter: @carocsound Inst: @carocsound
FB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/
Chapters
00:34 - Introduction
01:39 - Why Start The Foundation?
05:04 - The Three Parts Of The Foundation
07:54 - Unusual Items In The Archive
09:50 - What did you learn about your father from the archive?
10:45 - Who inspired Bob Moog?
14:40 - The Moogseum
23:35 - What Synth’s Are Available?
24:46 - The Electronic Voyager documentary
28:51 - Did making the movie reveal anything new about your father?
30:50 - The impact of the Minimoog
33:55 - When can we see The Electronic Voyager Film?
34:47 - How important is the work of the BMF and other similar organisations?
https://moogfoundation.org/
https://moogseum.org/
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/electronic-voyager
Moog musical clips provided by:
Danniielle O’Connor (Moog Voyager) - http://pulseeternal.com/
Ernesto Romeo (Minimoog Model D) - https://klaussband.bandcamp.com/
Moot Booxlé (Memorymoog & Minimoog) - http://mootbooxle.bandcamp.com/
Suzanne Aston (Moog Voyager XL) - http://synthsbythesea.com/wp/
Brian Oliva (Theremin) - https://www.getsemanimusic.com/
Michelle Moog Koussa BiogMichelle Moog-Koussa, Bob Moog’s third daughter, was born in 1968, just as Wendy Carlos released her groundbreaking album Switched-On Bach, which brought the Moog synthesizer to the fore of the public consciousness. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Bob Moog Foundation, a position she has held for the past 16 years. She has grown the Foundation from a grass roots, volunteer-based organization to one that has nationally recognized goals and accomplishments, a staff of seven, and a worldwide network of supporters. She has been the driving force behind the Foundation’s vision to carry Bob Moog’s pioneering legacy forward by igniting creativity at the intersection of music, science, history, and innovation.
At the forefront of this vision is the Foundation’s hallmark educational project, Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool. Michelle stewarded this project from an occasional volunteer outreach effort to a standardized 10-week curriculum that teaches the science of sound through the magic of music to second grade children in nearly 100 classrooms in Asheville, North Carolina. While Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool currently serves 3,000 children a year, Michelle is leading the Foundation to expand this project nationwide.
Michelle also oversees the preservation of the Bob Moog Foundation Archives, a vast array of historic materials ranging from photos to schematics, from correspondence to prototypes. The Bob Moog Foundation shares the materials with other research institutions and museums, and opened its Moogseum in May 2019, and interactive facility where the Foundation’s educational and historic preservation initiatives converge.
Michelle has written the foreword for The Synthesizer Book, by acclaimed writer and historian, Mark Vail, and has been featured on numerous video and podcasts. Michelle gave a talk at TEDx Asheville in 2017 entitled, Inspired: The Journey of Discovering my Famous Father, which can be viewed here.
Rob Puricelli BiogRob Puricelli is a Music Technologist and Instructional Designer who has a healthy obsession with classic synthesizers and their history. In conjunction with former Fairlight Studio Manager, Peter Wielk, he fixes and restores Fairlight CMI’s so that they can enjoy prolonged and productive lives with new owners.
He also writes reviews and articles for his website, failedmuso.com, and other music-related publications, as well as hosting a weekly livestream on YouTube for the Pro Synth Network and guesting on numerous music technology podcasts and shows.
He also works alongside a number of manufacturers, demonstrating their products and lecturing at various educational and vocational establishments about music technology.
www.failedmuso.com Twitter: @failedmuso Instagram: @failedmuso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/failedmuso/
Chapters
00:34 - Introduction
02:06 - Summary Of The Film
02:52 - Why Make The Documentary?
04:15 - Not Seeking Popularity
06:08 - Gathering Archive Footage
07:22 - Narration by Laurie Anderson
08:34 - The Women Tell Their Own Stories
09:32 - Sound Design Instead Of A Score
12:21 - Marta Salogni On Her Influences
20:53 - Defining A New Genre Of Music
23:32 - Creating New Sounds And Composing With Tape
28:26 - Sound Design For The Film
31:38 - The Challenges Of Composing For Film
34:41 - The Importance Of Female Role Models
36:29 - Ending
The film features Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Pauline Oliveros, Wendy Carlos, Eliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani and Laurie Spiegel with commentary by Laurie Anderson.
https://sisterswithtransistors.com/https://www.modernfilms.com/sisterswithtransistors (UK) https://metrograph.com/live-screenings/sisters-with-transistors/ (USA)
Lisa Rovner BiogA French American artist and filmmaker, Lisa Rovner is now based in London with her work presented in art venues and theatres internationally. Her films delve into the archives and work to transform politics and philosophy into cinematic spectacle. Rovner has collaborated with some of the most internationally respected artists and brands including Pierre Huyghe, Liam Gillick, Sebastien Tellier, Maison Martin Margiela and Acne. Sisters With Transistors is her first feature documentary.www.messageisthemedium.com
Marta Salogni BiogA record producer, mixer, recording engineer and tape composer, Marta Salogni launched her career in her native Italy, where she spent her early years collaborating with artists and bands across a range of musical styles. As a producer and mixer, Marta Salogni has worked with Björk, M.I.A., Factory Floor, Kelela, Liars, Alex Cameron, Daniel Blumberg, Little Boots, Temples, Insecure Men, The Orielles, HMLTD, and Django Django. Marta is the sound designer for Sisters With Transistors.www.solarmanagement.co.uk/marta-salogni
Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. Her self-produced fourth album "Electric Mountain" is out now. Described as a "one-woman electronic avalanche" (BBC), Caro started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to the likes of Warp Records in the late 1990's. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.
URL: http://carocsound.com/
Twitter: @carocsound Inst: @carocsound
FB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/
Delia Derbyshire Day Charity: https://deliaderbyshireday.com
Chapters
00:32 - Introduction
01:37 - Musical Background And The Endlesss Project
05:59 - Creating An Intuitive Software
08:55 - The Technical Challenges Of Endlesss
11:41 - Turning Music Creation Into A Social Event
14:11 - The Team Behind Endlesss
18:13 - Enthusiasts and Established Artists
20:02 - Future Connectivity
21:43 - Mobile Music Creation
24:12 - Using Endlesss To Generate Ideas
27:00 - Music Ownership
29:02 - Educational Use
30:54 - How To Get Started
Tim Exile BiogTim Exile is a musician, technologist and the founder of Endlesss (yes that's Endlesss with 3 s's), a groundbreaking app for live collaborative music creation with a global community of creators. Tim has released records on labels like Warp and Planet Mu, appeared at venues like Berghain/Panorama Bar and Fabric, and performed alongside artists such as Imogen Heap, Nile Rodgers, Beardyman and many more. Before he launched Endlesss, Tim built digital musical instruments for Native Instruments amongst numerous other projects, talks and collaborations aligned with his embrace of creative flow-states.https://endlesss.fm/
Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. She started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to Warp Records in the late 1990's. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.
URL: http://carocsound.com/
Twitter: @carocsound Inst: @carocsound
FB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/
Delia Derbyshire Day Charity: https://deliaderbyshireday.com
Chapters
00:31 - Introduction
00:59 - Where did your electronic music journey start?
03:39 - Geoff Travis steps in and joining Scritti Politti
05:46 - The birth and gestation of Cupid & Psyche '85, plus the Nile Rodgers myth
08:05 - What was your collaboration process with Green like?
11:09 - The sound and gear of Cupid & Psyche '85
15:36 - The MIDI effect
17:22 - Arrangements and counterpoint
19:49 - Provision and pain
22:15 - The constraints of having a 'signature sound'
23:33 - Partnering with Green again
24:33 - How do you find and use music technology today?
27:04 - TV and movie work and the future
29:12 - Cupid & Psyche ’85 live in 2021
29:57 - Ending
David Gamson BiogDavid Gamson first dabbled with synthesizers in his teenage years, playing with his father’s ARP 2600. It was the first step on a very successful musical journey that eventually saw him come to the attention of Rough Trade founder, Geoff Travis. Travis had already signed and nurtured an act fronted by Welshman Green Gartside, called Scritti Politti. Travis saw the potential in both men and they soon began a fruitful career as part of the second incarnation of the band.
Two globally successful and critically-acclaimed albums followed, Cupid & Psyche '85 and 1988's Provision before the band dispersed, a move brought on by Gartside’s overwhelming distaste for the industry.
During that period, Gamson spent time producing, writing and arranging for the likes of Chaka Khan, Al Jarreau, Luther Vandross, occasionally with Green at his side. However, after a painful, drawn out experience recording Provision, David decided to establish himself more as a producer and writer than a band member and his first post-Scritti effort was for Tony LeMans on Prince’s Paisley Park Records label.
His work as a staff producer at Warner Bros saw him working with Roger Troutman, Sheila E., George Benson and another stint with Chaka Khan. Gamson’s work with Meshell Ndegeocello saw him nominated for multiple Grammys.
After going independent, David found himself working with Green again on Provision’s follow up, 1999’s 'Anomie & Bonhomie', this time solely as producer. After this, he turned his hand to film and TV, working alongside Hans Zimmer on Mission Impossible 2.
More recently, he has focused on songwriting and has worked with a number of high profile artists including Kesha, Adam Lambert, Jessie J and Quinn XCII. Most notably, he received a songwriting GRAMMY nomination for his work on ‘Stronger’ by Kelly Clarkson, a track which sat atop the Billboard Hot #100 for three weeks as well as many other charts worldwide. His work with Charlie XCX, a leading figure in the new PC Music/Hyper Pop genre, came about in no small part due to the fact that Cupid & Psyche ’85 is held in very high regard in those circles. He also co-wrote and produced two new tracks for Scritti’s Absolute 'best of' compilation with his old friend, Green Gartside, delighting fans of the band worldwide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gamson
Rob Puricelli BiogRob Puricelli is a Music Technologist and Instructional Designer who has a healthy obsession with classic synthesizers and their history. In conjunction with former Fairlight Studio Manager, Peter Wielk, he fixes and restores Fairlight CMI’s so that they can enjoy prolonged and productive lives with new owners.
He also writes reviews and articles for his website, failedmuso.com, and other music-related publications, as well as hosting a weekly livestream on YouTube for the Pro Synth Network and guesting on numerous music technology podcasts and shows.
Outside of his regular day job, he works alongside a number of manufacturers, demonstrating their products and lecturing at various educational and vocational establishments about music technology.
www.failedmuso.com Twitter: @failedmuso Instagram: @failedmuso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/failedmuso/
Chapters
00:34 - Introduction
01:58 - The Round House
04:59 - Software
06:07 - Izotope, Antares & The Box Of Tricks
07:39 - The MiMU Gloves and Glover
15:39 - Tech For Live Performance
20:12 - VR & Immersive Audio
22:18 - The Listening Chair
26:58 - The Creative Passport Project
32:19 - Ending
Imogen Heap Biog
Self-produced British composer and recording artist for over 20 years, Imogen Heap has released five solo albums, another as one half of Frou Frou and collaborated with countless and varied artists including Taylor Swift, Nitin Sawhney, Deadmau5, Jeff Beck and Jon Hopkins. Her compositions and songs pop up in blockbuster and indie films as well as countless TV shows, are featured in underground rap and dance music, and are covered by the likes of Ariana Grande.
As composer and arranger for one of the biggest hits in theatrical history, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, Imogen won the 'Drama Desk Outstanding Music In A Play' award. As a sought-after speaker and performer, Heap hosted 2020’s Grammys Premiere Ceremony. Her collaborative and multi-dimensional workflow attracts companies for commissioned works, leading to songs such as 'Tiny Human', the first song to distribute payments via a Smart Contract, and 'The Happy Song', a highly successful song for children in their early years.
Imogen Heap is recognised as an artist's artist, and has won two Grammys and an Ivor Novello award. In recognition of her pioneering work at the intersection of music and technology, Heap has a hat trick of three honorary doctorates for the gestural music-ware 'MI.MU gloves' system and recently for ’The Creative Passport’, an integrated digital ID solution, empowering music-makers to be the change toward a fair and flourishing music ecosystem.http://imogenheap.com/https://www.creativepassport.net/https://mimugloves.com/
Music Credits
Last Night Of An Empire
Me And The Machine
Tiny Human
Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. She started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to Warp Records in the late 1990's. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.
URL: http://carocsound.com/
Twitter: @carocsound Inst: @carocsound
FB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/
Delia Derbyshire Day Charity: https://deliaderbyshireday.com
Chapters
00:31 - Introduction
01:04 - Greetings
01:53 - An Introduction To The Project
03:00 - The First Skype Recording
05:40 - Inspired by an Accordion
10:59 - Replicating the Sonic Accidents
15:45 - The Skype Codec
19:22 - Compositional Techniques
21:44 - Incorporating The Original Skype Recording
23:18 - Ending
Olivier Alary Biog Originally from Toulouse and now based in Montreal, Olivier previously worked under the Ensemble alias, in which Johannes participated as mixer, arranger and co-writer. Ensemble’s 2000 debut (on Aphex Twin’s Rephlex label) led to Björk drafting Olivier to co-write the track ‘Desired Constellation’ and remix several others. After releasing two further Ensemble albums on FatCat, Olivier has focused increasingly on film music and has composed the music of over forty fiction films and documentaries, some of which have received prestigious awards and screenings in Europe, the US and China.http://www.olivieralary.com/
Johannes Malfatti Biog
Berlin-based Johannes Malfatti graduated from Germany’s Film and Television School HFF Konrad Wolf. His work for film, television, theatre and music projects has ranged in style from electronic music to orchestral composition. With two recent albums under his own name, Johannes’ solo work focuses on contemporary and experimental techniques, often combining acoustic and electronic elements to create rich and slowly moving sonic environments. The first collaborative release under their own names, ‘u,i ’ continues the pair’s long-standing research and to explore the grey areas between noise and musicality; the acoustic and electronic.https://www.johannesmalfatti.com/
Olivier & Johannes latest album, u,i , was recently released on the 130701 label.
http://130701.com/release/ui/
Chapters
00:32 - Introduction
02:11 - Cyril Lance / The Claravox
16:44 - Dorit Chrysler
25:26 - Bruce Woolley
32:08 - Katia Isakoff
45:40 - Ending
Music credits:
Rachmaninov Vocalise - Clara Rockmore, theremin. Nadia Reisenberg, piano.
From: “Clara Rockmore – The Art of the Theremin”. Delos Productions CD. Courtesy of The Nadia Reisenberg / Clara Rockmore Foundation
Schneeleichen - by Dorit Chrysler - unreleased extract from M - eine stadt sucht einen moerder - with kind permission of Dorit Chrysler
Beat Monjune - by Dorit Chrysler - unreleased extract from M - eine stadt sucht einen moerder - with kind permission of Dorit Chrysler
Therexotica - by Peg Ming - with kind permission of Dorit Chrysler (a track on the Theremin 100 compilation produced by The NY Theremin Society)
Peace Song to Other Worlds (2 extracts) - by Radio Science Orchestra - with kind permission of Bruce Woolley
Theremini solo - by Katia Isakoff - with kind permission of Katia Isakoff
Clara Rockmore Biog
Clara (Reisenberg) Rockmore holds a unique place in music history as the star performer of the theremin. Born in Russia, in 1911, at four, she was accepted as the youngest ever violin student at the St. Petersburg Imperial Conservatory. As conditions deteriorated after the Revolution, the Reisenberg family left Russia and travelled across Europe for several years until 1921 when they succeeded in gaining passage on a steamship bound for America. In New York, Clara resumed her studies with Leopold Auer, but shortly before she was to make her American debut (playing the Beethoven Concerto), she developed an arthritic problem with her bow arm, and had to give up the violin.
Fortunately, she had met Leon Theremin (an Americanisation of Lev Termen, as he was known in Russia), the inventor of the world’s first electronic instrument. “I was fascinated by the aesthetic part of it, the visual beauty, the idea of playing in the air,” Clara recalled, “and I loved the sound. I tried it, and apparently showed some kind of immediate ability to manipulate it. Soon Lev Sergeyevich gave me, for a present, the RCA model theremin.”
She convinced Leon Theremin to build her a far more precise and responsive instrument than the RCA model, one with a five-octave range, instead of three. Over the years she performed extensively but it was not until 1977 that she saw the release of her first commercial LP, performances with Nadia Reisenberg (recorded by Robert Moog) titled ‘The Art Of The Theremin’.
In 1989, Steve M. Martin, long fascinated by the instrument, embarked upon the documentary Theremin - An Electronic Odyssey, a film including some of Clara’s last public performances (videotaped at a 1989 Nadia Reisenberg tribute concert in Merkin Hall), and the New York reunion of Clara and Leon Theremin (then aged 95). Premiered in New York at Alice Tully Hall, the film in large measure revitalised interest in both the theremin itself and Clara Rockmore’s unique accomplishments. She died in 1998.
Cyril Lance Biog
Cyril Lance is the Chief Technical Officer at Moog Music and lead designer of the Moog Claravox Centennial Theremin. Cyril first met Bob Moog in January 2005 during an informal visit to Moog factory. When Bob was diagnosed with cancer in April of 2005, Cyril was asked to come up and take over the engineering effort. Since then, Cyril has been at the helm of engineering and product development and, along with the dedicated and passionate team at Moog Music, has helped to continue Moog’s legacy of designing and producing beautifully crafted electronic instruments aimed at inspiring artists world-wide to explore and expand their personal sonic vocabularies. Cyril strives daily to continue Bob Moog’s legacy and to have a lot of fun along the way. “It’s truly a blessing to have the opportunity to contribute in one small-way to the transformative powers of music to bring joy and connect people on the deepest levels through-out the world”.https://www.moogmusic.com/
Dorit Chrysler Biog Dorit Chrysler has been dubbed a superior wizard of the theremin. An Austrian-born, New York based composer and performer, Chrysler is the co-founder of the NY Theremin Society and started the first international school for Theremin, KidCoolThereminSchool and L’Ecole Theremine with branches in NY and Paris. She is also one of the most visible Thereminists spreading the gospel of this mysterious sounding instrument. Most recently she finished her analog soundtrack for a remake of “M” by Fritz Lang and was featured on the soundtrack of the HBO documentary “Going Clear”. Chrysler received her master’s degree of musicology in Vienna and has notably collaborated with Anders Trentemøller, Cluster, Adult., CERN, Carsten Nicolai, Elliot Sharp and Laurie Spiegel. She has performed with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, had her work commissioned by MoMA and the Venice Biennale, and is the founder of “Dame Electric,” a festival dedicated to female | pioneers in Analog Music. As the director of the NY Theremin Society, Chrysler is promoting the application of theremin in different art disciplines and has produced the THEREMIN100 compilation release, commemorating the 100th birthday of the Theremin in 2020.http://www.doritchrysler.com/toc.htmlhttps://www.nythereminsociety.org/
Bruce Woolley Biog
In 1969 Bruce Woolley bought a Futurama electric guitar, formed a school band, and dreamed of being a professional musician. After years of experimentation, and unsuccessful attempts at becoming a famous jazz-rock guitarist, he decided to concentrate on writing pop songs. In 1979 he co-wrote “Video Killed the Radio Star”. After a stint fronting cult New Wave unit The Camera Club, Woolley moved back into songwriting and production, forming a creative partnership with Grace Jones. In 1994, Woolley discovered Exotica and formed The Radio Science Orchestra, a theremin-led group that defined retrofuturism before people were talking about retrofuturism. A sonic time machine travelling along the whole history of electronic music, the Orchestra has collaborated with the world’s leading theremin virtuosi including Lydia Kavina, Carolina Eyck and Charlie Draper. Notable guest artists include Grace Jones, Polly Scattergood, Ken Hollings, Dr. Robert Moog, Steve Dub and Thomas Dolby.http://www.brucewoolleyhq.com/https://www.radioscienceorchestra.com/
Katia Isakoff Biog Katia Isakoff is a composer and multi-instrumentalist music producer whose compositions, performances and productions first appeared in the Add N To (X) album Loud Like Nature (Mute Records). She has since collaborated on numerous albums and projects including John Foxx and Steve D’Agostino’s Evidence of Time Travel which was composed and produced at her London studio. Having contributed synths and co-mixed EOTT, she went on to join them for a live concert performance at Electri_City Conference Dusseldorf, adding Moog Theremini and synths to the sonic architecture of this ever evolving and expansive Karborn graphic novel, which premiered with a live performance at the British Film Institute UK and Sonic Acts Festival, Amsterdam. She has since spent much of her time between London and Berlin working on her forthcoming album She’s Not Here.
In 2019, Katia launched !N_K o L //\ B a new and innovative composer producer series bringing together pioneering, established and emerging composer producers to collaborate in various iconic studios and pop-up locations. Each series sees a new guest pioneer and group joining her; together, they embark on the journey of making an album through improvisation and exploration of the studio as an instrument, building a global network through musical collaborations – one album and city at a time.
The first IN_KoLAB series was hosted by British Grove Studios. The group spent two days recording and filming what would become an immersive four-movement quadrophonic piece called IN_KoLAB Making Waves with Suzanne Ciani. The album and accompanying short will be released in 2021 and plans are in motion for the next series.
https://www.katiaisakoff.com/ | https://inkolab.org
Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. She started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to Warp Records in the late 1990's. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.
URL: http://carocsound.com/
Twitter: @carocsound Inst: @carocsound
FB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/
Delia Derbyshire Day Charity: https://deliaderbyshireday.com
Chapters
00:39 - Introduction
01:18 - How does it feel to have a movie made about you?
04:16 - Why make a film about Don?
05:45 - Why create LEO, the Live Electronic Orchestra?
09:18 - Is it about taking control?
11:25 - The documentary process
15:22 - A whole lotta love and struggles
20:26 - The technology of LEO
26:29 - Have you ever been tempted to move LEO from hardware to software?
29:52 - Gathering testimonies
32:12 - The documentary production
36:21 - How have you found pitching this movie to distributors?
40:31 - How LEO inspired MIDI
48:21 - Where can we watch the movie?
49:28 - Ending
Don Lewis BiogDon Lewis is a gifted musician and educator whose mission is to inspire and empower audiences to achieve their dreams. Whether presenting a solo concert or collaborating with other musicians and artists, Don's music brings a message of hope, respect, and community. Don began playing piano as a Dayton, Ohio high school student. Later, at Tuskegee Institute, he accompanied and sang with the Tuskegee Chorus and played for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Freedom Rallies.
Uniting his interest in engineering with his musical talent, Don became one of the pioneers in synthesizer use and technology. In 1977, he designed and built a synthesizer system, Live Electronic Orchestra (LEO) that was an inspiration for Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI), now on display at the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, CA.
Don has performed at concerts worldwide and has appeared as a soloist with many symphony orchestras. As a studio artist, he has worked with such greats as Quincy Jones, Sergio Mendez and Michael Jackson. Don has also created scores for film and television productions including the award winning Rainbow's End and Were You There series featured on PBS. In addition he has scored commercials for such clients as Nissan, Pacific Telephone, and Digital Equipment Corp.
Also an enthusiastic teacher, Don has taught courses in the history of Gospel Music, multimedia, and synthesizer technology at University of California at Berkeley Extension, San Jose State University and Stanford University. In 1987, Don combined his love of children, education and music to create Say “Yes” to Music! Since then, he has delighted thousands of students, teachers and school administrators across the United States and Canada with his inspiring musical assemblies.
Throughout the years Don has been a concert artist and consultant with various musical instrument manufacturers including Hammond, Arp, Yamaha, Roland Corporation, and Rodgers Instruments. He continues to delight and touch the hearts of his fans in his concerts at home and throughout the world.
Ned Augustenborg BiogNed Augustenborg has produced a wide range of content in the television industry, having produced or directed for ESPN, MSNBC, CNN, The Mountain Sports Network, Canadian Sports Network, Prime Ticket, CNBC and Sports Net.
Following his formal education at the University of Southern California and the University of Arizona, Augustenborg began his career in computer animation while collaborating on experimental video projects at the Long Beach Museum of Art Video Annex, followed by producing documentaries on such diverse subjects as the California Department of Corrections, a struggling Los Angeles Latino rock band and the early life of Nobel Prize winner Glenn T. Seaborg.
In addition to his freelance production career, Augustenborg also managed several studios for a variety of Cable TV operators throughout Southern California. A recipient of multiple Emmy and Cable ACE Awards in the categories of Entertainment, Documentary, Experimental Video, News; Augustenborg most recently produced and directed for Time Warner Cable’s newly developed sports channels in Southern California for which he received two Emmy nominations for "Best Live Sports Coverage" in 2014.
Links / Credits
All music clips produced, arranged, composed and performed by Don Lewis and taken from the soundtrack to the film, “The Ballad of Don Lewis” © Don Lewis Music 2020.
“Fall in Pleasanton”
“Hold On”
“Be-Noun-Chi”
Original Don Lewis LEO performances are available on the Album “Twelve Gates to the City” Available from Apple Music and Amazon.
Film website: https://www.theballadofdonlewis.com/ Trailer: https://vimeo.com/442861162 Available from: https://4bri.net/newReleasesx5.asphttps://donlewismusic.com/https://www.augustenborgproductions.com/
Rob Puricelli BiogRob Puricelli is a Music Technologist and Instructional Designer who has a healthy obsession with classic synthesizers and their history. In conjunction with former Fairlight Studio Manager, Peter Wielk, he fixes and restores Fairlight CMI’s so that they can enjoy prolonged and productive lives with new owners.
He also writes reviews and articles for his website, failedmuso.com, and other music-related publications, and has guested on a number of music technology podcasts and shows. He can often be found at various synthesizer shows demonstrating his own collection of vintage music technology.www.failedmuso.com Twitter: @failedmuso Instagram: @failedmuso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/failedmuso/
Chapters
00:40 - Introduction
01:34 - Current projects
04:19 - Mixing up the creative process
06:49 - Electronic and mathematical roots
10:19 - Discovering the industry
15:31 - From foley artist to Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios
22:48 - Pioneering spirit and inspiration
25:23 - Capturing the magic of performance
27:54 - Hardware and plugins
33:33 - Getting expression into a performance
37:39 - Methodologies and storytelling
45:16 - Ending
Nainita Desai Biog
Ivor Novello award nominee, Nainita Desai is a BAFTA Breakthrough Britand International Film Music Critics Association Breakthrough Composer of 2019.
Amongst various BAFTA, Oscar, Emmy acclaimed productions, Nainita’s recent features include critically acclaimed Oscar 2020 nominated film For Sama also nominated for Best Music at the BIFAs.
Film4 labelled her as one of the top 5 ‘composers who should be on your radar’ for 2020 and her projects have been in the Top 5 Film Scores and Video Games scores of 2019 by Scala Radio.
Recent projects include Sundance 2020 winning feature The Reason I Jump, Netflix original series Bad Boy Billionaires, American Murder (exec prod: James Marsh), and BBC drama series Unprecedented.
Following a degree in Maths, Nainita began her career working as a sound designer on features for directors including Werner Herzog and Bertolucci and assistant music engineer to Peter Gabriel.
Nainita moves seamlessly between working with orchestras, to scores utilising her collection of custom made instruments, incorporating electronics, found sound, and experimental sound design which has informed her experimental, deeply immersive approach.
Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. She started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to Warp Records in the late 1990's. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.
URL: http://carocsound.com/
Twitter: @carocsound Inst: @carocsound
FB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/
Delia Derbyshire Day Charity: https://deliaderbyshireday.com
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
00:50 - Manny’s history
01:29 - Before the DX7
11:22 - The unpredictability of FM
14:58 - How do YOU do FM?
17:44 - How did you get to work with Yamaha?
24:56 - Birth of the Preset Industry
28:09 - The move to the SY
39:47 - FS1R and beyond
53:08 - Montage & MODX
58:03 - Where next for FM?
1:03:11 - Ending
Manny Fernandez Biog
Dr Manny Fernandez has been involved with sound programming and synthesizer development for over 30 years. Initially self taught on an ARP Odyssey and Sequential Pro-One, he also studied academically on Buchla modular systems in the early 1980's. With that solid background in analog synthesis, he transitioned into digital synthesis with the release of the original DX7.
Manny has been heavily involved in development & programming for Yamaha and is best known for his FM and Physical Modelling work. He says he was “really fortunate” to be with Yamaha through their glory years of developing new synthesis technologies in the DX7II, SY77/99, VL1 & VP1, EX5, AN1x and FS1R. More recently he has been working with the Reface DX and Montage, doing development work for the various Montage firmware & feature updates, including the new realtime FM ‘SmartMorph’ AI control of multiple FM parameters.
Way back in the 90’s, he also did development and factory programming work for Kurzweil (K2000), Kawai (K1, K4, K5), Korg (Wavestation, O/1W), Alesis (Quadrasynth), Ensoniq (TS10), Peavey (DPM3) & E-MU (Proteus 2000). He was also known for his work with Sound Source Unlimited and their many sound libraries.
Around 2005 he returned to programming to explore advanced FM techniques; for the last 15 years he’s been hacking every nook and cranny of the AFM implementation within the SY99, exploring the interactions of operator phase, multiple patchable feedback loops and ‘zero frequency” waveshaping. He has developed methods for creating FM models of analog oscillator and filter behaviours along the way, as well as mimicking physical modelling and the abstract electronica of his college Buchla days.
Manny has contributed many FM synthesis programming tutorials on YamahaSynth.com and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DrSynth Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/manny-fernandez-4856421
Credits
Incidental music clips performed by Rob Puricelli using a Yamaha DX5. Closing musical clip performed by Manny Fernandez.
Rob Puricelli BiogRob Puricelli is a Music Technologist and Instructional Designer who has a healthy obsession with classic synthesizers and their history. In conjunction with former Fairlight Studio Manager, Peter Wielk, he fixes and restores Fairlight CMI’s so that they can enjoy prolonged and productive lives with new owners.
He also writes reviews and articles for his website, failedmuso.com, and other music-related publications, and has guested on a number of music technology podcasts and shows. He can often be found at various synthesizer shows demonstrating his own collection of vintage music technology.www.failedmuso.com Twitter: @failedmuso Instagram: @failedmuso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/failedmuso/
Chapters
00:32 - Personal History and storing memories
01:28 - Tape recorders capturing birthdays and school trips
02:59 - Ambient football on cassette
03:46 - Discovering John Cage
04:31 - Scores of Stockhausen
05.18 - Live music
05:52 - David Tudor
07:39 - Modular Synth discovery
09:23 - In the Studio playtime, Modular Synths, Gesture Arcade
11:24 - Lorre-Mill Keyed Mosstone, Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus 2
11:53 - Lorre-Mill Double Knot, Eventide H9
13:16 - Macumbista Benjolin
17:38 - Morphagene
17:57 - Musique Concrète
20:41 - Teac Reel-to-Reel
21:16 - Tape Loops
22:30 - Dinner for Two
24:59 - Avoiding the screen
25:16 - Going in a loop
26:04 - How nothing has changed
27:01 - Outro
Robin Rimbaud Biog
Scanner (British artist Robin Rimbaud) traverses the experimental terrain between sound and space connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music.
To date he has scored 65 dance productions, including the hit musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba Narnia, Qualia for the London Royal Ballet, and the world’s first Virtual Reality ballet, Nightfall, for Dutch National Ballet.
More unusual projects have included designing sound for the Philips Wake-Up Light (2009), the re-opening of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 2012 and the new Cisco telephone system used in many offices around the world. His work Salles des Departs is permanently installed in a working morgue in Paris whilst Vex, the residential house by Chance de Silva architects, featuring his permanent soundtrack, won the RIBA London Award 2018.
Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Wayne MacGregor, Mike Kelley, Torres, Michael Nyman, Steve McQueen, Laurie Anderson and Hussein Chalayan, amongst many others.
http://www.scannerdot.com
His latest album, An Ascent, was recently released on the DiN Records label - https://din.org.uk/album/an-ascent-din63
Where To Get The KitGesture Arcade
Lorre-Mill Keyed MosstoneCiat-Lonbarde CocoquantusLorre-Mill Double Knot
Macumbista Benjolin
Morphagene
Chapters
00:00 - Intro and music featuring the ARP family of synths by Alex Ball
00:50 - About Alex
03:45 - The Terminator 2 Analysis
05:40 - Meeting Heroes
06:02 - How did the ARP documentary happen?
12:49 - How long was the process?
15:45 - MUSIC CLIP: ARP family of synths by Alex Ball
16:05 - What are your research methods?
18:21 - Alternate truths
20:24 - Tracking down the gear
22:11 - Addendums and the ARP Avatar
23:44 - MUSIC CLIP: ’Interlude’ by Drew Schlesinger & David Torn featuring the ARP Avatar
24:14 - ARP Centaur 6
26:21 - Where do you see synth documentaries going?
31:06 - What’s next in Alex Ball’s world?
33:39 - What would you love to make a documentary about?
35:40 - Outro music featuring the ARP Solina by Alex Ball
Link to the YouTube video. https://youtu.be/l31RXiVSI9s
Credits
ARP Avatar excerpt: ”Interlude" by Drew Scheslnger & David Torn from the album 'Summer Synthesis 1978’
Used by kind permission
(C) 2020 Synthetic Productions Music
(P) Synthetic Productions Music / BMI
(P) Torn Music / BMI
Available at drewschlesinger-davidtorn.bandcamp.com
With thanks to the https://alanrpearlmanfoundation.org/
Alex Ball Biog
By day, Alex Ball is an award-winning media composer, producer and instrumentalist. By night, Alex explores his passion for synthesizers and the history of music technology and has made documentaries covering the stories of the Roland Corporation, ARP Instruments, the Prophet Synthesizers, the Linn LM-1 digital drum machine as well as breakdowns of iconic film scores such as Terminator 2, Escape from New York and Predator. www.alexballmusic.com
Rob Puricelli
Rob Puricelli is a Music Technologist and Instructional Designer who has a healthy obsession with classic synthesizers and their history. In conjunction with former Fairlight Studio Manager, Peter Wielk, he fixes and restores Fairlight CMI’s so that they can enjoy prolonged and productive lives with new owners.
He also writes reviews and articles for his website, failedmuso.com, and other music-related publications, and has guested on a number of music technology podcasts and shows. He can often be found at various synthesizer shows demonstrating his own collection of vintage music technology.www.failedmuso.com
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
00:31 - Peter Vogel and the Fairlight CMI
01:51 - First Fairlight in the UK
03:25 - That Fairlight sound
05:32 - Stravinsky Firebird Suite, London Philharmonia
06:38 - The KPM albums
08:25 - Working with Delia Derbyshire
11:15 - Early technological limitations
13:20 - Sequential Circuits
14:56 - 12 bit sampling
16:27 - The Kaleidophon
18:40 - Interlude
19:05 - The Maniac sequencer
21:59 - Modern sampling
24:35 - Using Reaktor
25:50 - Sample libraries vs sound design
28:17 - Creating something unique
30:00 - Ending
Photographs on our website.
https://www.soundonsound.com/people/david-vorhaus-podcast
David Vorhaus Biog
An experimental electronic musician with a background in Physics and Electronic Engineering, David Vorhaus has been a pioneer of electronic music in Britain for over 30 years. In 1968 he formed the band White Noise with Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson of the Radiophonic Workshop. Their debut release, An Electric Storm, has since garnered cult status and is recognised by Island Records as being an important album in its genre. One of his early samples on the Fairlight CMI was of an orchestral stab, taken from a recording of Stravinsky's Firebird by the Philharmonia Orchestra, that has since become the most used sample in music history. As a bassist with no interest in playing keyboards, David developed the Kaleidophon ribbon controller and the Maniac analogue sequencer, something he has since rebuilt in digital form using Reaktor.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Noise_(band)
Rob Puricelli
Rob Puricelli is a Music Technologist and Instructional Designer who has a healthy obsession with classic synthesizers and their history. In conjunction with former Fairlight Studio Manager, Peter Wielk, he fixes and restores Fairlight CMI’s so that they can enjoy prolonged and productive lives with new owners.
He also writes reviews and articles for his website, failedmuso.com, and other music-related publications, and has guested on a number of music technology podcasts and shows. He can often be found at various synthesizer shows demonstrating his own collection of vintage music technology.www.failedmuso.com
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:00 - Interlude
01:55 - Greetings
02:17 - Path into Electronic Music
04:11 - Working for Buchla
05:03 - From Pianist to electronics
05:52 - Adding a keyboard
06:14 - Connecting to analogue
06:38 - Career revival
07:37 - The Theremin
08:53 - Ongoing relationship with the Buchla
10:04 - Learning an instrument over time
11:48 - Travelling with electronic instruments
12:11 - Other instruments - Prophet V, Moog One, Moog Subharmonicon
14:28 - Interlude
14:35 - Natural world sound palette
15:44 - Synthesizing natural sounds
16:48 - Andy Votel, Finders Keepers, Denali
17:45 - Trawling the vault
18:56 - Unearthing past recordings
19:47 - Electronic music lineage, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram
21:01 - Role of females in Electronic Music creation
23:45 - Freedom and control
24:19 - Quadrophonic sound
27:46 - Interactive music
30:17 - Ending
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Suzanne Ciani Biog
Suzanne is a five-time Grammy award nominated composer, electronic music pioneer, and neo-classical recording artist whose work has been featured in countless commercials, video games, and feature films. Over the course of her 40+ year career, she's released 16 solo albums, including "Seven Waves," "The Velocity of Love," and most recently, her comeback quadraphonic Buchla modular synth performance recording “LIVE Quadraphonic.”
She’s provided the voice and sounds for Bally's groundbreaking "Xenon" pinball machine, created Coca-Cola’s pop-and-pour sound, designed Atari’s sound logo, played concerts all over the globe, and carved out a niche as one of the most creatively successful female composers in the world. A Life in Waves, a documentary about Ciani’s life and work, debuted at SXSW in 2017 and is available to watch on all digital platforms.
https://www.sevwave.comhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Cianihttps://www.finderskeepersrecords.com/
Caro C Biog
Caro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. She started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to Warp Records in the late 1990's. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.
URL: http://carocsound.com/
Twitter: @carocsound Inst: @carocsound
FB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/
Delia Derbyshire Day Charity: https://deliaderbyshireday.com
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