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John Cage performing on Nam June Paik's TV special called 'Good Morning Mr. Orwell' from 1984. In the beginning, we see that Cage is joined by Takehisa Kosugi and one other unidentified person. perhaps they were performing a composition or improvisation that they would have done during a Merce Cunningham dance. there is also a cut away to a Joseph Bueys piano performance art piece.
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Bloc festival documentary series about musical backgrounds: How the first incarnation of ULTRAVOX! with singer John Foxx influenced Gary Numans' way of doing music. I think John Foxx is wrong when he later noticed Gary Numan was the only musician who consequently followed his direction towards a new style of synths driven Pop music at that time in Rock history. But anyway, great video feature with 2 great musicians.
Mini documentary about the 1960's SCI-FI TV series THE TIME TUNNEL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Tunnel
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TV feature about "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."
part 2:
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.
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44min. Detailed musical analysis of the prelude of Richard Wagners' Tristan und Isolde. Highly recommended.
BBC RADIO 3. DISCOVERING MUSIC. RICHARD WAGNER. PRELUDE AND LIEBESTOD. TRISTAN AND ISOLDE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner
link: http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/4682/She-s-a-Pu... //
Synopsis: "She's a Punk Rocker U.K." is a documentary by and about punk rock women. Punk women changed the public face of females. It was very universally empowering for women. The story of punk could almost be a women's liberation story. Documentary director and punk rocker Zillah Minx reveals the true punk rock history from the women who were there. This documentary tells the story directly from the punk women who created the punk scene in UK. These are the punk women on the streets of the UK. Before the Sex Pistols appeared on TV and revealed an underground punk world, to the public. These are the women punks who shocked the world. This is their story of being punk told in an oral history format. The film features a multitude of famous women punk rockers.
the evolution of music and visual arts in the 20th century.
short documentary -
DIRECTED BY - Nelson George
PRODUCED BY - Nicole Nelch
WRITER/CAMERA/NARRATION - Nelson George
EDITING/CAMERA/MUSIC/NARRATION/VOICEOVER - Robert O'Bryant
- Check out more films in the Focus Forward series at vimeo.com/focusforwardfilms.
Urban Romances, LLC
- TV documentary with interviews and rare Live footage.
part one
part two
part three
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ROBOTSPEAK --
An interview with Steve Taormina of San Francisco's Robotspeak, a store specializing in unique instruments for electronic musicians. Quasi the San Francisco brother of Schneider's Laden in Berlin.
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Video feature - US tour 2010 - Interview and Live Performance / live session on Nat Roe's show at WFMU
THE 'MOLE SHOW’ CONCERT, MADRID 1983 -
© 2011, The Cryptic Corporation
licensed by Warner Chappell and Music Publishing Rights Collecting Society
Copyrights: TVE S.A: http://www.rtve.es/television/
Tracklist:
1. interview
short feature about Veronica Vasicka and minimal wave.
Our featured video this week on revelinewyork.com is Veronica Vasicka, Founder of Minimal Wave and Cititrax Records.
Veronica Vasicka is a photographer, musician, DJ and founder of the epic record label and on-line music resource Minimal Wave. As one of the founding members of East Village Radio, she managed the station during its pirate days and began collecting obscure and long forgotten gems that fell somewhere between the Cold Wave, Post Punk and Minimal Synth genres. Not knowing what to classify these bands as, she coined the genre Minimal Wave and set up the website Minimalwave.org as an online resource to share her finds with the rest of the world.
The response to the website was huge and shortly after its launch, Veronica began tracking these artists down and re-issuing their work on the Minimal Wave label. Most of these bands recorded extremely limited copies of their work in their basements and shared their work with the world via John Peel's radio show and a handful of underground music mailings. The music released on the label is a stripped down, DIY and purer approach to mainstream synth pop. Never-the-less, fans of New Wave acts, and bands like Kraftwerk, New Order, and Joy Division who are seeking something a bit different or looking to expand upon the familiar genre, will not be disappointed.
In addition to running Minimal Wave, Veronica launched the Cititrax label as way to expose newer synth-based act as well as obscure House and Italo classics. She DJs bi-monthly around New York City and every Sunday night on her East Village Radio show, Minimal Wave.
a short, 8-part history of nature.
1. Aquatilia - Foxtrot
2. Hexapoda - Bolero
3. Pisces - Blues
4. Reptilia - Tarantella
5. Aves - Tango
6. Mammalia - Minuet
7. Simiae - Polka
8. Homo - Waltz
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_%C5%A0vankmajer
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- Dusty Springfield -
DOCUMENTARY ON THE WHITE QUEEN OF SOUL -
TV SERIES SOUTH BANK SHOW
Wonderful documentary segment i worked on for ITV's the South Bank Show about the life and times of Dusty Springfield. Assistant camera work by me Amar Barn, originally aired in 2006. All Copyright to ITV Television and music rights to Philips Records and Atlantic Records.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusty_Springfield
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