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Modulations: Cinema for the Ear is 1998 documentary film on the history of electronic music, consisting of a documentary film, accompanied by a soundtrack album, and a 2000 book Modulations A History of Electronic Music by Peter Shapiro.
While commending the film for "[trying] to present an accessible history of electronic music", it criticized it for its "subcultural cliquishness" and described it as promotional of the Ultra Music Festival. [19] A review on EDMtunes.com called it "the premier film on Electronic Music history" and "a film that speaks to all dance music ...
The film features scenes of Moog interacting with various musicians who view him as an influential figure in the history of electronic music. Moog is not a comprehensive history of electronic music nor does it serve as a chronological history of the development of the Moog synthesizer. There is no narration, and the scenes feature candid ...
Electronic Awakening is a 2011 American documentary film which investigates the spiritual history of electronic music culture. Told from an ethnographic perspective, the film explores the international Electronic Dance Music (EDM) phenomenon as the re-emergence of shamanic ritual. [2]
Modulations: A History of Electronic Music: Throbbing Words on Sound is a 2000 book edited by Peter Shapiro. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a companion piece to the documentary film Modulations: Cinema for the Ear .
The documentary is made up of rare testimonies and archive footage. It chronicles the stories of the pioneering but little-known women of electronic music. These composers found, thanks to machines, a space of liberty and creativity that the male-dominated world of traditional music did not allow them.
The original screen credit for the film, which was supposed to read "Electronic Music by Louis and Bebe Barron", was changed at the last moment by a contract lawyer from the American Federation of Musicians. In order to not upset the union, the association with the word music had to be removed. The Barrons were credited with "Electronic ...
Elektro Moskva is a 2013 Austrian music documentary film directed and written by Elena Tikhonova and Dominik Spritzendorfer. It is their directorial debut. The film is an essayistic exploration of Soviet and post-Soviet "electro-history", spanning from Theremin to synthesizers to KGB surveillance tools.