Tag: Peter Zinovieff

  • Peter Zinovieff

    Peter Zinovieff

    Great interview with composer and synth pioneer Peter Zinovieff who co-invented the EMS synthesisers and called the ‘British Bob Moog’ and the amazing EMS studio started 50 years ago. I didn’t know he worked with a ZX81, but mostly abandoned computer music for 30 years. And he uses REAPER now!

  • Cybernetic Serendipity and the Eccentricity Electric

    Cybernetic Serendipity and the Eccentricity Electric

    Fascinating clip from 1968 about the ICA’s 1968 Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition, which currently has a retrospective at the ICA, and the album, claimed to be the first electronic music compilation (not sure about that, I thought Music From Mathematics from 1962 had that title?) has been re-released, although it seems you can download it here.…

  • What the Future Sounds Like

    What the Future Sounds Like

    Love this documentary about British electronic music, specifically Tristram Cary, Peter Zinovieff, David Cockerell as the inventors of the EMS synth. Love that pipe – not enough electronic music is composed whilst in a turtleneck and a pipe nowadays! (via Eric Kleptone). Also if you’ve not listened to the BBC Selected Radiophonic Works from Radio…

  • The New Sound of Music

    The New Sound of Music

    Well for 1979…this BBC documentary is a really good explaination about how sound synthesis works and where the technology has come from – and as well as featuring David Vorhaus and Peter Zinovieff aka founder of EMS, it also includes the Radiophonic Workshop with the likes of Malcolm Clarke. Peter Howell and Paddy Kingsland (and…

  • Ada Lovelace Day: Delia Derbyshire

    Ada Lovelace Day: Delia Derbyshire

    As part of Ada Lovelace Day organised by the wonderful Suw Charman-Anderson, Finding Ada has asked bloggers to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. It’s obvious to me who to celebrate – Delia Derbyshire, mathematician, musician, sound artist, and early audio engineer/technologist. Born in Coventry in 1937 she grew up during the…

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