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Discovering Electronic Music

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This 1983 documentary film by director and writer Bernard Wilets examines the basics of analog synthesis, digital sampling and sequencing.


This movie is part of the collection: Short Format Films

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Keywords: electronic music; synth; synthesizers; synthesis; sequencers; sequencing; samplers; sampling; fairlight; fairlight cmi;


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Reviewer: Música Electrónica - 5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars - June 27, 2012
Subject: Música Electrónica (Español)
Si nosotros volvemos al pasado, descubriremos que toda la música que escuchamos provienen de tres tipos de música dominante, que derivaron en los géneros musicales que conocemos actualmente.

Los tipos de música dominante fueron:

La música Clásica Europea,
La música Africana,
La música Electrónica,

Desde allí ramifican hacia otros géneros y de esos géneros derivan a subgéneros y de estos subgéneros derivan en variedades y cuando la música contiene tantos matices, que sea imposible encasillarla estaremos hablando de música de fusión, siendo la música de fusión el ultimo escalón que pone límite a la mezcla musical concebible.

Por ejemplo la música clásica europea influenció directamente a la música celta, al rock sinfónico y a la música electroacústica.

La música clásica europea influenció al Ragtime, pero este a su vez también fué influenciado por la música africana.

El Calypso influenció al Ska, pero este también fué influenciado por el Rhythm & Blues.

El Nu Metal fué influenciado por el Metalcore pero a la vez también por el Grunge y el Hip Hop.

El Rock progresivo fué influenciado por el Rock n Roll, pero a la vez tiene influencias de Jazz y música clásica europea.

la música Electrónica también tuvo sus descendientes, por así decirlo: el Electro, el house, el Trance, el IDM, el EBM y otras vertientes que se pueden visualizar en el siguiente grafico:

http://musitronic.blogspot.com.ar/2009/08/arbol-genealogico-de-la-musica-moderna.html

Negar la influencia de la música electrónica es negar el fenómeno musical que nos envuelve día a día. La música electrónica la escuchamos en la radio, el cine, la televisión, publicidad, internet y sobretodo en los nuevos artilugios del presente siglo como son los teléfonos celulares, iphones, blackberrys, ipads, etc.

Reviewer: boomaga - 3.00 out of 5 stars3.00 out of 5 stars3.00 out of 5 stars - February 25, 2009
Subject: Timewarp ?
Film seems to consist mostly of footage shot in the mid- to late 1960's, evidenced by the haircuts and very early teletype computers, early Moogs and ribbon controllers, and some painfully cumbersome looking homemade interfaces. One rather self-satisfied bearded fellow demonstrates how he "composes" via a teletype machine, in something that looks like COBOL, and how he's rigged up some sort of odd gearshift for an envelope controller for some reason. We also meet a classic 1950's style science Edgar who informs us that the incoherent electronic mess he's responsible for is the direct result of his transcending the traditional orchestra and its limited timbres, and how his music is so sophisticated that he notates it with graphs (what would be the point of notating it anyway - to reproduce it ?). No mention is given to Schaeffer or Le Caine or Stockhausen or Bob Moog or Wendy Carlos (though it may be that Carlos hadn't recorded by this point, and they do use Bach inventions for demos). A pretty good introduction to basic analog synthesizer concepts here, but some time spent trying to wow us with how awesome music becomes when you take ordinary boring old trumpet, sax, and bass, and crap them up with ring modulation and VSO filters. They also claim to take a jetplane's engine sound and run it through filters and play it on a keyboard, though this is a bit disingenuous as that sort of sampling was not possible and the sound was just the white noise generator on the synthesizer. So, we have late 60's era technology, then BAM, suddenly we're introduced to the Fairlight CMI by a guy with an obviously early 1980's cut and he's demonstrating the instrument, using 8" floppies, a penlight-touchscreen monitor, and QWERTY on top of free-standing keyboard controller - he proceeds to use the little 1-bar pattern-maker to demo some all-too-familiar early '80's sequenced music (aka porn music). It's just too great of a leap in terms of technology, and the film tries to put them all in the same basket.


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