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:: Friday, December 12, 2003 ::

Moog Movie:

In Revolution OS hackers have a film that chart the history of what is probably one of the most important revolutions in computing history. The electronic music community will be getting the same sort of document for what is probably one of the most important revolutions in synthesis, if not in music, the Moog Synthesiser.

Moog will tell the story of the maverick inventor, in his own words, rather than try to tell the whole story of his 50 years of contributing to electronic music. Dr. Moog allowed the filmmakers unprecedented access to his world and different sides of his story are told by Don Buchla, Jim Scott, Wendy Carlos et al. A specially commissioned soundtrack produced on Moog instruments includes exclusive tracks from Stereolab, Meat Beat Manifesto, Tortoise, DJ Spooky, Money Mark, Luke Vibert, Charlie Clouser, Electric Skychurch and the Cure among others.

The film is due for US release next summer, so it might be a long wait until we can see it in the UK. In the mean time there is a four and a half minute preview (30MB MPEG / 14MB Quicktime) and a little preview article written by some Butthead.

:: Dan 12.12.03 [Arc]    ::
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