The New Sound Of Music 1979 (part 4)
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 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.
I am completely in love with this documentary, it shows how great the BBC was back in the day. It really was all about culture and knowledge. I would love to know what happened to all that hardware. I was practicing with a band a few years ago in a north London church and the person in charge happened to show us some storage rooms on the upper floors and it was like heaven with gear stacked all the way up to the ceiling. This documentary reminded me of that place. :)
Most items follow a time frame where first it is new and valuable, then it becomes everyday items, then it becomes obsolete and much of it is scrapped, and finally the remaining specimens becomes rare and valuable again. I would say that most of it was probably scrapped in the 80s. Sometimes things are lost in fires or other disasters. I know that most of Peter Zinovieff's equipment was destroyed in a flood.
Working in the Radiophonic Workshop must have been the best job ever :-)
Vorhaus seemed like a very intelligent and insightful young man. Very fascinating to learn about the development of sound engineering, and the way it's been integrated into music.
Now he's a very intelligent and insightful old man
What a truly wonderful program.
We take it all so much for granted now, forgetting the effort that had to go into producing even the simplest peace of music. Amazing to think even the eye watering expensive Fairlight costing as much as a house has been consigned to history with so many free sampling applications out there.
Thank you for some wonderful memories of both the technology and the time it came from.
As a musician and a Whovian, I enjoyed this documentary quite a lot ;) :P
this guy at the end is the best , he sounds almost like Astral projection , and certainly liek kraftwerk
Almost kraftwerk. That was like Tone Float or something of the era.
This looks incredibly complicated to what I can achieve with my Minimoog Voyager...Yes, I know its "Stating The Bleeding Obvious," but, it will never cease to amaze me how far electronic music has come since the time of the likes of: Shaffer and Stockhausen. This is a very interesting insight. Thank you.
Amazing how much electronic music has changed since then. This documentary was from 1979 and it was in 1979 that Gary Numan would make waves with electronic pop music which in turn opened the floodgates to a whole stream of mainstream electronic acts. So as a historical artifact this documentary came out just a few months before the shift towards mainstream electronic music was about to take place!
Wow! that's Robin Wood in hippy mode at 2:50, a very rare appearance.
Stick an 808 over that Moorehouse dude at the end and you've got banging techno trance. He makes his own instruments! That is a true pioneer!
7:44 - Psytrance is invented
I absolutely love this stuff, thanks for the proper upload.
Now I want to see "Nuclear Nightmares" next week...
still love his work!!
Huge thanks for posting this. Love these kinds of shows!
A thousand thanks for taking the time to upload these excerpts Jeffrey, I found them immensely enjoyable......a real trip down memory lane....!!!!
At 11.00 you here a similar tune that David Vorhaus produced but I don't know what it's called. It was used in the mid 80's for the Andrex puppy advert and you here it occasionly on TV.
Vorhaus used Synthesizers and Electronics before TD. His album "An Electric Storm" was released 1969 - at this time TD still made Krautrock, Schulze was a Drummer and Jarre's first electronic sounding single "La Cage" was released two years later - 1971.
I saw it at the time, it's never left me. Thx eternal for the upload!
Its sick wat changed in electronics between 1979 and 1987 and when 1988 started the era of great music was almost completely finished.
7:41 ancient acid house YAY!!
great documentary...love it!!!
thank you sir, for uploading all parts
"Switch in the time warp navigator" Love it. :D
Yeah. I like the the modern and the vintage but to certain points you are right. Before Roland, Yamaha...was building their gears upon the basic of the raw sounds and what real musicians needed. They was also try to get into the USA and Europe. We consider this as a golden age and still are more popular then ever. But the music scenes today and newer gears(Roland...) just reflects what the society are today. Analog gears are raw and always alive(imperfect) and be physical with the hardware.
Thanks for posting this. Very interesting.
Great stuff Jeffrey... thanks for that!
I want the EMS Polisynthi. I want it NOW!
Join the Queue :)
Unless you have some $150,000, you'd have to time travel to get one
I want the MANIAC
Could you imagine any of the people in that programme facing up to Australia's own Fairlight CMI just a few years later, or put in front of an Amiga with a copy of OctaMed and told "kids have this stuff at home" in the 90s?
thank you so much for uploading this !
if anyone could recommend other documentaries like this one ?
Bloody brilliant, thanks for uploading!
Thanks for uploading these!
I'm afraid I don't have the programme "Nuclear Nightmares" . The recording was done in 1984 in Sydney, Australia by sheer chance, but it remains one of my all-time favourites. "Nuclear Nightmares" sounds like it could be a BBC-made programme though.
That's a fantastic doc!
Brilliant documentary - thanks for uploading......5*****.....TIS
thanks for posting this!
Inspiring stuff. Thanks for uploading.
I think Vorhaus's interview was brought to us in a fog of gangja
thanks for sharing this, it's great!
If someone knows if David Vorhaus is still alive, The Maniac would make a really cool app.
David Vorhaus was way ahead - I love his White Noise albums
This is a trip to look back at ... I think synthesizers had the same 30+ yr treatment as piano's
give me that sequencer.. OMFG! IT's MANIAC
I had to listen to that music starting at 5:14 because it sounds so sick.
David Vorhaus... brilliant
On the minute seven, most early psytechno/acid O.o ????
And that sequencer is ACE!
Which sounds just like the "Right, now..." that Peter Zinovieff says at 4:27!!
2:10 R2D2 live in concert!
@cnmaster01 It does look like a damn fine "little" sequencer don't it?
I want an old vocoder like that, I would hook it up to my phone and put all of what I say to music.
Where did the future go? :(
The future is some way off
The future stagnated
7:27 I wanna sample that little riff.
@definty His brain going faaaaaaasssssssstttttttt! :) He can see the future! :) Just hasn't had time to live it yet! :) flash forward! :)
6:00 sounds like Shpongle
absolutely :)
The entire interview kind of sounds like today's metal music
Indeed they did.
7:42 prehistoric IDM
They seriously did a show called the new sound of music regarding synthesizers and didn't have Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo as a guest? Pathetic!
@astrophonix
Given the room he had to play the instrument, it would have been an extremely difficult task to adopt a different playing stance, without knocking over some of the other equipment I fear.
@smleonard55 Growing up in the 70s and 80s was quite interesting in that regard - starting with Kraftwerk's Robots I became fascinated by the new sounds that came out of synths. :)
Thanks for uploading this :D
But of course I like VA too and soft`s but try to use it as a original piece. I really hate the concept when VA/soft try to be analog. Use VA/soft as a modern digital thing then mix it with vintage/modern real analog thing then you can make really original sounds. Another thing with those sounds in this fantastic video. You can only have 1-10 sounds but they are always good and express something instead have 1000 sounds wish really never say or express anything to you.
There was of course a major stumbling block in those days, the cost, everything in this video would have run up to many thousands of pounds at a time when the average wage was £25 a week.
I really like the gears old of vintage and never before is it all going to be popular again. We see it in compressors where they are now build as the vintage was in both looks and sounds. You can theoretic just have a laptop with 1.000.000.00.... gazillion sounds in it and all efx, comp, eq... done by a Pc but it will never sound the same. Analog sounds will only be a shell of the sounds with VA or soft-synthesis. And it is no fun for me but be physical with the hardware is important.
I thought it was just me!
I think the computer was asking for the beat to drop.
I'm just happy to see an actual discussion going on in UA-cam comments, instead of the usual 'this is fucking gay': well done folks! :D
And, for what it's worth, I think there are still plenty of electronic artists who spent time on creating interesting sounds, care about (sadly lacking in a lot of club choons), and still have enough space to add some hefty beats and monstrous bass- Clark springs instantly to mind.
10:38, then the dubstep beat drops.
this is so interesting, I want to do this kind of thing with redpower computer in minecraft.
Zinoviev's great grandfather was the alleged author of the infamous Zinoviev letter of 1916, concocted by the forerunner of MI5, the Royal British Secret Service.
yes me too, but we just hear what he said before at 4:28 ...
this is where hip hop comes from
The kaleidophon could have been a best-seller for Dave, if not for that embarrassing phallic playing position! Understandable for an upright bass player to design this, but the electric bass horizontal stance would have looked better!
EMS Polysynthi - they only made 29 of them
Tristram Cary!
blinking heck!
how many times does that bloke blink??
i need more MOOG :P
9:10 no latency
@Shanawolfo1 Oh come on man! Sod the market! Haven't you heard? The Industry is Dead. (Documentary - PressPausePlay) Art does not decorate itself, or care how others perceive it; It's Self Expression. I consider DJs/Clubs a separate matter because they will always need music that subsumes a constant flow of energy. You wouldn't have Delia Derbyshire's 'pot au feu' played in clubs! This is about Art, & the future of electronic music. With, or Without the industry. Real Music. :D
worlds first beat...
Perplexing comment.
2:00 Richard Devine's (great?) granddad :)
It's Edgar!
What is the name of the song performed by David Vorhaus (at 10:47)?
Please help! :-)
@Shanawolfo1 Have you heard of Skweee? It's a form of electronic music from Finland which is produced on vintage synthesizers and stuff. It's kinda like anti-dubstep, even though they are (distantly) related.
"This young whiz kid...." - born 1933 ! LOL
@auro1001 duh.. where do you think techno came from? ;-)
got mw aware of blinking now lol
@definty I counted. 540 times.
This guy gives jarre a run for his money!
7:42 acid in 1979 :D
Back when people doing electronic music had imaginations!
1:33
They're like "I paid 3 dollars for THIS?"
Yeh Clark, Rustie, Fever Ray, Imogen Heap, Lamb, Portishead, Guido, Squarepusher, PVT, LFO, Kosheen, Little Dragon, Elsiane, The Golden Filter & not forgetting the New Group that's just come out from Iceland of 3 young artists who Sing to Electronic Beats & a Clarinet! Called "Samaris" - Check out their track "Góða tungl". It's shit-hot once you get past the foreign vocals & accept it as just another instrument.
And April sees the release of Iceland vs. Germany Collab "STARE". Arnalds & Frahm.
next monday. trust me.
shit, i heard "right now" at 4:48min , anyone else?
#quantum #computing #sound
1:40
Wow that looks complicated af
Have you watched this? watch?v=SZPbeToO2D8
One of the documentaries about Robert Moog and his electronic musical instrument.
Not uploaded by me, but interesting nonetheless.
This is what gets my goat up! There's no interest in "Sounds" anymore. Even The Prodigy have forgotten about trying 2get a good sound now, to join the "Who can get their music the Loudest" competition. Any1 can produce any sound now on a laptop with cracked free software. Where's the Creativity in that? Just sitting there, looping samples with each other. No matter how hard you try, you will fail now. And the quickest way of retracting a girl is 2tell them you make electronic music. It's a Joke.
well, what happened, the filtering popped out more than one band ass peaks, causing formants to happen, and lo and behold, you have speech synthesis. Sadly, today with sampling technology, there's no practical need for speech synthesis. After all, the talking trains all use sampling. Albeit I am in for developing a serious anxiety disorder from hearing the same exact announcement on the subway train going to work. Change and automation is not always pleasing I must say...