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Poster for Discovering Electronic Music (1970)

Discovering Electronic Music (1970)

1970 · Short film · 23 min

  • Musical

Synopsis

Portrays the physical basis of music and shows how music can be created and altered by electronic means. Includes music from a sound synthesizer and computer-controlled music

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23 minutes

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★★★★ · Electronic Music · tabs4days · 2019-08-15

The opening sequence presents electronic music hardware along with electronic sounds, the video starts of with in introduction by F.RBMoore of the Bell telephone laboratories going on to talk about electronic music influences that made electronic music possible, going on to talk about the functions of the hardware through Dr. Gerald Strang, of the University of California Los Angeles explaining the complexities of electronic music, and the differences that electronic music has compared to the way traditional instrumental music is composed. They then present examples of real instruments, and…