The New Sound Of Music 1979 (Part 1)
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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.
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Many thanks for this! I thought someday someone might like the documentary.
From this same era of exploding concepts and deep technical immersion everyone overlooks the Home Organ which did all of the above seamlessly, and synchronized. From this same era you had the Yamaha E-70 which was like a CS-80 sandwich with a drum machine thrown in.
8:30 The forerunner of turntable scratching.
Love this . Have watched a few times. Thanks for the upload
This is awesome!
This is superb, thanks for sharing. I remember my sister watching this at the time and her having kittens because they showed the original Dr Who titles in probably ten years or more... I missed it though!
Of course, You may sample, apply noise reduction, apply effects to suit the style of your music composition. All the best with your work. Jeffrey S.
sometimes you can run a synth through an amplifier (like a guitar amp) and get a different sound, or bigger sound. Also a myriad of effects and myriad ways of using those effects.
@ZipBalloon1989
2 жыл бұрын
Film composer Jerry Goldsmith did this very thing right up until he died in 2004. Instead of the synths going into the booth they were played live with the orchestra on the sound stage. The best way in my opinion.
09:58 Sounds almost exactly like the bass line in the original Delia Derbyshire arrangement of Doctor Who.
A very impressiv old document of electronic music
From 1:20, it sounded a little like 8-bit Nintendo music! Gotta love analog!
@zamwam8005
9 жыл бұрын
no it didn't but it was close
LOL When he started talking about turning the sharp attack, slow decay (as in "Buuuuuwwwww") sounds to slow attack, sharp decay (as in "Wwwwwwuuuuub") sounds, I immediately thought of the reverse fingered bass that's so iconic with dubstep...Weird thinking that many ideas that Skrillex uses that are still considered relatively "new" were actually invented before his parents were even born.
it's particularly inspiring, thank you.
I'm really grateful that someone took an old VHS, converted it to DVD and uploaded to KZread. This footage in the future will be rare and while VHS tapes will go extinct, this footage will remain here.
@paulashe61
9 ай бұрын
My brothers got a room of Vhs from 1979
Thanks so much
Oh yes, correct! I see you know vintage Vangelis when you see it, good eye!!
I remember watching this in 1979 in the TV studio at Coopers Grammar with Michael Cross, Keith Burton, David Hart... I think that's who was there... that's usually who was hanging out there at lunches. We'd either hang out there or we'd hang out in the lab were Roy Agumba was building his Moog from Maplins (or some such). Maybe a Maplin 5600S Stereo Analog Synthesizer. Ah - happy days.
awsome
Unbelievable the BBC in 1979 and knowing Throbbing Gristle , Cabaret Voltaire , Robert Rental and Thomas Leer , The Normal etc etc created all ready much more futuristic music .
@paulashe61
9 ай бұрын
Or 1957 Daphne Oram at the BBC they followed the Muzak concrete pioneers of Kraftwerk
The story I am about to tell you...
I'll never understand to my dying breath why no one uses synthesizers to do what Kingsland did for the tv series, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". It didn't sound "straight from a keyboard". I'll never understand how that sounds he made managed to be so under rated and unnoticed.
What would be darn intriguing is a new documentary like this, a follow-up. 30 odd years later. Following each thread along. Analogue keyboards, control (digital), all the threads that lead to today's use of a laptop and plugins .... was this what those pioneers had in mind? I think both yes and no. Always one intriguing leap forward for every negative unintended consequence.
@jessihawkins9116
5 ай бұрын
yeah they could show what music has evolved into today 😲
awsome material!...year of my birth also interesting!?
the 20th century is so fucking fascinating and exciting
The barrel organ has to go down in history as the first (analogue) sequencer.
8:07 and thats how scratching was made
Ah Michael Rodd, I remember so well - the hair - the jacket
So... the true source of Alan Partridge is revealed... Michael Rodd take your bow! :-) Can't stop watching 0.07 - 0.12... classic Partridge pose.
@t.p.mckenna
3 жыл бұрын
With every frame you can see it!
@AW8UK
3 жыл бұрын
Only just seen this comment on back of my continuing research into the many that have possibly influenced Coogans Partridge. Nick Owen, Wally Webb , Alan Freeman....just a handful if names Old enough to remember Micheal Rodd in the 70's. Also a fan of early use of electronics and synthetic in EDM & some other music. Thanks to channel host for sharing this.
9:32 BOOOOOOOOING... Sound..
HEY! No Delia Derbyshire?!
super!
great
the piece played by the mechanical piano at 3:35 is the same as a piece in the demo video for the mellotron! search it up, it's quite amusing.
The pianola is playing "Chapel of Love" on the piano at 2:42. It becomes jazzier at 3:02.
Yeah .. thats great. Many of today`s musicians have forgotten that music could be full of changes - and that does NOT mean "all those repeated chord changes" ...
@duncanparsons .....I believe your 2nd option was correct :) It indeed seems to be Vangelis prior to Wakemen. In another You Tube vid (Vangelis - The dragon) his studio rig is setup similarly with a Roland System 100 sequencer (furthest left) & Roland SH3A above the Yamaha CS80 . The beard, square faced Cartier watch (black strap) seem to qualify too.
I like how exciting they make it all look. Makes keyboard players look like race-car drivers
That automatic violin is extremely impressive.
@jessihawkins9116
5 ай бұрын
no, not really. you can get more precise sound with midi 🥱
Great lick at 2:42
BTW sad he didn't actually mention Derbyshire throughout any of the videos in this documentary.
JDear Nadia, Here in the U.S. we have Stories - like my ex said she wanted to watch her stories In case you don.t know, stories are West Virginia slang for "soap operas"
Clip from TCR 00:25 - 00:43 is Vangelis.
Anyone, any clue what's playing on @ 1:15 ??? so nice!
かっちょいい～～
Lol @ 2:55...the first step sequencer in play!
cool )
@ajittffcure BBC always manages to do everything on music right.
Hey cool docs ! The beginning sound a bit like Vangelis "Spiral" (already from '77)
@BohemianConspiracy
7 жыл бұрын
Ok :-) Vangelis returned with a (unexpected) new album ... (I have not heard it yet)
depends on what directions your looking at, hip hop was at its peak maybe around 1993 - 1998
@JeffreyPlaide Yup, Wakey. Just prior to him was Pat Moraz, or Vangelis, tho I tend toward Moraz
anyone know what piece is being played at 3:54 ?
What is the music playing at 1:15 ? Anyone?
from 0:01 to 01:00 fingers of Vangelis with CS 80 Yamaha
I wonder how much of the "Alan Partridge" character was based on Michael Rodd :-)
i comepletelty agree
thats crazy the paper is midi!
@Zeal808
6 жыл бұрын
Jason Caldwell totally
@shaft9000
4 жыл бұрын
totes bruh, just no hugeongous 500+kg contraption breaking down with midi
You mean Wakeman playing the two Minimoogs? They are side-by-side. You are looking at the back of them. But it's not clear which keyboard he is playing and the audio is out of sync with the video. I think.
looks like it
so this is how cabaret voltaire made their first few songs
0:50 sounds a bit like the laser synths on Animusic
@shiningarmor2838
8 жыл бұрын
Have you heard what David Vorhaus was doing yet?
@MarkMeadows90
8 жыл бұрын
OH yeah, pretty talented
prototype Roland MC-8 at 2.40 ?
A 0:49 grande RICK!
Vangelis!!! a los 0:25 - 0:42
Who is playing at 0:50 ?
'Sup synth playin' Saruman.
8.35 Origins of SCRATCH!!!
@ultimatenerd22 Looks like Edgar winter to me.
does anyone know the name of the presenter??
@MikeSmith-tx2lp
7 жыл бұрын
danny keigher Really... Michael Rodd. It says so in the intro.. He was one of the presenters on BBC's Tomorrow's World science program in the late '70's and Top Gear in late '80's. Hideous suit!!
@norepetitivebeats
5 жыл бұрын
Alan Partridge
Or Abelton live.
Ohh slash you troll everyone! =))
Someone tell me who is the artist/group at 0:44
@KitchenJames
8 жыл бұрын
Andre Felicio Borela Junior rick wakeman ffrom yes i think
@andreborela5264
8 жыл бұрын
Thank you (James Keegan)
OMG!! Rick Wakeman!!!
well ... I don't know if this is THE MOST extraordinary tale of our times .. you'd think there'd be various assassinations, political coups, stock market crashes, technological developments and so on. When alien lifeforms attacked us and nearly conquered us back in 1998 I thought that was pretty extraordinary.
@ultimatenerd22 The one and only Rick Wakeman
Rick Wakeman, from Yes, circa 1975/1976...
Would have said Edgar Winter.
I want a hedgehog robot!
Fuxk sake it's alan partridge
how long is that keyboard at 1.10 Hahaha
@shiningarmor2838
8 жыл бұрын
The entire range that MIDI plays
I think it is Rick Wakeman Jeffrey S.
@DeepNYCHouse No, you.
old hip hop had alot of meaning about scientology, the earth, the human mind, growing up from a sperm, the problems of the world, politics etc. so saying that hiphop was only about money for examle is like saying rockmusic is only about depression. hip hop was basicallly like rockmusic, drums bass, somekind of guitar/piano or something, just another form of rock/ reggae etc. wu tang clan ( + all members solocareers), jeru the damaja, big l, gangstarr, street poets, lord finesse etc are examples
You're not serious?
I thought it was Jesus.