The New Sound Of Music 1979 (part 2)
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- The New Sound of Music is a fascinating BBC historical documentary from the year 1979. It charts the development of recorded music from the first barrel organs, pianolas, the phonograph, the magnetic tape recorder and onto the concepts of musique concrete and electronic music development with voltage-controlled oscillators making up the analogue synthesizers of the day. EMS Synthesizers and equipment are a heavily featured technology resource in this film, with the show's host, Michael Rodd, demonstrating the EMS VCS3 synthesizer and it's waveform output. Other EMS products include the incredible Synthi 100 modular console system, the EMS AKS, the Poly Synthi and the EMS Vocoder. Most of the location shots are filmed within the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop studios as they were in 1979. Malcolm Clarke demonstrates the Synthi 100, also known as the "Delaware", Michael Rodd demonstrates musique concrete by tape splicing and manipulation and Paddy Kingsland demonstrates tape recorder delay techniques (also known as "Frippertronics"). The Yamaha CS-80 analogue synthesizer is demonstrated by both Peter Howell and Roger Limb. The EMS Vocoder is also expertly put to use by Peter Howell on his classic "Greenwich Chorus" for the television series "The Body in Question". Dick Mills works on sound effects for Doctor Who using a VCS3 unit, and Elizabeth Parker uses bubble sounds to create music for an academic film on particle physics. Peter Zinovieff is featured using his computer music studio and DEC PDP8 computer to produce electronic variations on classic vintage scores. David Vorhaus is featured using his invention, the MANIAC (Multiphasic ANalog Inter-Active Chromataphonic (sequencer)), and playing his other invention, the Kaleidophon -- which uses lengths of magnetic tape as velocity-sensitive ribbon controllers. The New Sound of Music is a fascinating insight into the birth of the world of recorded and electronic music and features some very classic British analogue synthesizers creating the electronic sounds in this film. The prime location for these demonstrations is the BBC Radiophonic Workshop where much creativity and invention took place during the period the workshop was in operation in the latter part of the twentieth century. Electronic music today is used everywhere, and many musicians gain inspiration from the past, as well as delving into the realms of sonic structures and theories made possible by the widespread use of computers to manipulate sounds for the creation of all kinds of musical forms.
this is a very amusing documentary to watch while high. its looks like they had a lot of fun making this.
This doc is fascinating today, it must have been mind bending in it's day.
Delia Derbyshire's green lampshade, Elizabeth Parker making loops, Paddy Kingsland demonstrating Frippatronics, all in one programme! Nice one!
This video is great tutorial for electronic music begynner produceres.. To know what is what ... omg luv this video with all it's parts
best visual explanation that I have seen on analog synthesizer generated sounds, fantastic!
this is a gold mine of edm vocal samples :3
Paddy Kingsland's tape delay machine is like a huge version of the Watkins Copicat!
I love how he talks about Robert Moog and then plays an EMS synth rather than a Moog synth.
Hey, at least he pronounced his surname correctly!
You done good, Jeffrey Plaide. Thank you so much for sharing these!
As I understand it, the bass line was both-tape-sampled piano notes for transients, and then layered with with sine wave oscillators.
The ARP Avatar had both a hex-fuzz circuit and the monophonic synthesizer. In this case, he's using only the hex-fuzz.
The song at 2:36 is Choice by John Baker, from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21 album. Really cool to see how the piece was made!
What a great doco!!
Thanks for uploading this :)
this is great stuff
He said "Moog" right. Bravo.
8:04 note to self: looks easy to build a re-issue
@astrophonix
Frippatronics and the BBC Radiophonic workshop, is there anything better in life?
Gawd almighty, that bottle piece must have taken ages to put together :-O
Why isn't Delia Derbyshire ever mentioned during the reel to reel tape machine part? They keep playing the Dr. Who song but never mention that she helped make it.
The catalogue of her recordings, at least what has been found so far, is massive and incredible. She was a true innovator. She was making the most incredible sounds back then, sounds that would be challenging to reproduce even with the convenience of digital sampling.
The answer is in the title of the programme. It isn't about the people, but the production of sound/noise. I love it.
Yes, I know, but the original poster asked if that was a "MIDI pickup" on Paddy's guitar, and I was explaining as far what a "MIDI pickup" does, it's basically the same thing as the hex pickup that were on pre-MIDI pitch-to-voltage guitar synths that existed in the 70's and early 80's.
Cuando las ideas van mas adelante que el hardware, las cosas se ponen buenas.
Did nobody ever mention the cash register clanging to the tune of "Adeste Fideles / O Come All Ye Faithful"?
Hi Jeffrey, I'd really like to know what the oscillators name is and who invented it! Surley that's the only thing engineers could use before to VCO
If you hear the moog Version of the 10th anniversary dr who theme you can here all the hearts in UK breaking as did Delias.
I'm sure everyone knows this by now, but it's interesting that the presenter doesn't tell you abou the Doctor Who theme bassline was actually played by striking piano strings with a mallet. Only the upper melody line was playing with oscillators, and as I understand it, Delia had to record each note individually, then cut the tape together to get the piece as we know it.
that’s dumb. i could’ve done all that in fruity loops 🥱
Old steel factory lampshades are rare
@sonicalsonics Well, actually, there's no such thing as a "MIDI pickup". What you're talking about is the hex pickup, which is used to give each guitar string it's own signal, which then allows the guitarist to play synths with more than one string at a time. It looks like Paddy is using an ARP Avatar guitar synth (which oddly, is monophonic, though it still requires the hex pickup). All a "MIDI pickup" does is take the hexaphonic outputs and converts them to MIDI.
Is that an early synth pickup on Kingsland's Tele? Looks like an ARP Avatar
Aside from its use in generating hex fuzz, you gotta admit, having each note string separated allows for better pitch-to-voltage conversion... :P
nice
I understand now!
Dr Moog himself said that it's similar to how you pronounce the word "rogue."
Actually, you would need to feed the guitar into a pitch to voltage converter before you could feed the signal into a synth. On the other hand, a lot of analog synths had external inputs for processing sounds through whatever onboard processors the synth had, eg filters, ring modulator, etc. That's actually how Pete Townshend got the keyboard sound on Won't Get Fooled Again, by running an electric organ through his EMS VCS-3. Brian Eno did a lot of that on other people's records, too.
they should’ve put external inputs on the digital ones too. The only one I have that does this is the Korg MS2000R
@@jessihawkins9116 I'm not particular familiar with any of the digital synths, so I'm not sure what kind of sound processing features they had. Did things like the DX-7 or whatever have filters, ring modulators, etc to process sounds with?
@@Kohntarkosz yeah but you needed to go through menus or get an external programmer to make the patches.
@@Kohntarkosz the Behringer K2 has external input
3:50 what mixer is that ?
Indeed. \m/
1:07 The origin of Complextro.
And just some 4 years later the Fairlight CMI and other sampling systems were all over the place.
The very first Fairlight CMI went on sale the year this documentary was made/broadcast.
...and it opened up making music from 'found sounds' limitless to the many and the few.
Ten years or so forward from the £30,000 Fairlight, better quality results could be achieved with £2000 Akai rack mounting samplers., and now you can download DAWs for nothing that will do the same job ...and more :-)
The Williams Copycat....!!
BaddaBigBoom That's incredible Badda..... genuinely incredible....!!
Crypto currency will be next.....
It sounds like an Art of Noise demo tape
I was thinking more Chris Morris.
@sonicalsonics that would be too early, midi protocol was defined in 1982.
This guy is Alan Partridge
This guy knows a cracking owl sanctuary.
el inicio de los efectos de loop.
An example of Frippertronics at 4:30.
That first guitar clip sounds like it's using the Avatar's hex fuzz.
4:19 funny how guitar synths either sound like guitars or synthesizers but never both
Something tells me that mysteryguitarman has seen this.
10:19 Lol! :^D
Pink Floyd was made this things years ago.
9:20 that's a B
Yes it was, now we have X Factor & Strictly Come Dancing to replace it.
and bear in mind that MIDI hadn't been invented in 1979 :-) 1982 was the first agreed standard.
Paaaaarrrrrttttrrriiiiddddgggge!
Ahaaaaa!
My 12 year old head would have been blown apart by this programme. 'Tis a pity that I missed it at the time. My Mum threw my Moog - that I found in a cheap second hand shop - in a skip as it eventually needed a new part, and I kept it at her house for safety... D'oh!
song at 8:15 ? in dyer need
Dyer maker?
Doctor who theme
It wasn't an E but never mind.
it is an Avatar. Wish I'd kept mine..
6:15 - so close to making harsh noise
Harsh Noise is just the noisiest and most random side of noise music.
0:32 No we don't.
Yes...but so many people, including so-called "synth enthusiasts", pronounce it like "moo". Drives me bonkers.
he secretly hated his production assistant and was always making life difficult
I cannot tell a lie, I mispronounced it for years.
I once found a Toad and named him Dippy Dinghead, but he's dead now because i killed him.
And now you can do that and much more on your phone!
Damn...The part at the beginning was annoying...
01:00 to 02:00 horror movie
that's nowhere near an E....more like an A#. great doc though.
Multi track recorder? 4 mains leads of 4 tape recorders wired to 4 leaver switches on a peice of wood! Creativity in action. More money doesn’t mean creativity. Hence the holding of breath as Dr Who gets Disney funding for its 60th. Hmmm expensive bland suit crap.
yes dr Bob Moog... but as a proper Brit you can't show anything other than something british of course hence dr Moog's example should be shown on an EMS... pfff