David Vorhaus Analogue Electronic Music 1979

[machv]

it'll never catch on.

[shobley]

Unnatural blink rate - he must be an android! Let's get 'im!

Seriously this is awesome - some of the most 'musical' stuff I've heard of that period. I've been getting seriously Radiophonic myself just lately - recently acquired a couple of reel to reel machines and a splicing block - all preserved in air from 1967

[rockbandmidi]

This is an amazing clip-- we take for granted all of the work of pioneers and advancements via moores law. I feel spoiled by the fact I can whip out the ipod or ipad, load bebot or touchwiz.

Great clip-- made my day..

[rockbandmidi]

@rockbandmidi oops I mean morphwiz (jr rudess ipad app)

[kevbot71]

David Vorhaus should have gotten more recognition in the electronic music scene. I like him better than Larry Fast or Jarre.

[Remixlab]

I love this video clip a lot. A lot, a lot.

[BIGINSF]

"This revolution has hardly begun" Wow

[fram8yourmum]

Brilliant!

[cosmicmichael]

Granddad of psy trance. ; )

[btown2011]

what kind of reel to reel is in the rack?

[emarum]

@btown2011 no reels...

[ManorRecords]

Mr Vorhaus certainly had the first fairlight in the UK. I remember visiting his studio where he demonstrated both the fairlight and the kaleidophon, can't remember the exact date though I'm afraid.

[waheex]

wow, really interesting video. I would love that sequencer. Software is great but it's so detached. potentially rigid and not hands on, the way this thing is.

[nubient]

He's still around and making music in London ....

[CiaranPaulRoche]

Ahhh, the halcyon days before fairlight, emulator and software. It was a little more difficult and costly to make electronic noise back then kids.

[astrophonix]

@CiaranPaulRoche I read that Dave Vorhaus was the first person ever to buy a Fairlight, and that infamous and much overused 'Orch 5' sample was his work!

[jobenbelgium]

That Maniac Sequencer looks fabulous.

It's about time someone start building these for the hardware freaks.

[astrophonix]

He's very blinky!

[NuGanjaTron]

The Dr. Frankenstein of electronic music! Makes me wish I'd studied EE instead of CS.

[thermos123]

So awesome!

[NuGanjaTron]

Holy crap this is freaky! He's the archetypal maniac working into the wee hours in a quest for the ultimate sonic orgasm! :^D

Just goes to show you don't need overwrought digicrap to make funky sounds. Puts every wanker sitting at his Windoze PeeCee with Soundblaster nowadays positively to shame.

[astrophonix]

Wow, never seen this before, a great gem, thanks Jeff!

[Luggagerecords]

damn, that jam at the end is too much. Sucks that our man has to be chatting over the top of it. Surely DV's face show signs enough of the ecstatic throes of a moment of music demanding absolute attention

[pikachops]

great i wish i had this studio, i work better in the early hours too but my neighbour complains.sexy electronic sounds yum

[lovesrequiem1017]

stumbled!!!

[peepeeland]

AHAHAHA!!! Oh, man. That joystick controller (and the whole vid) is badass.

[crazy8rgood]

God, it's so weird watching this. It's like, them saying "music develops, we're watching the future of music here."... and look at music now. Electronic music, to be precise. This stuff IS here, this is the music of the PRESENT now. Crazy.

[Rolanoid]

Would be so cool if a developer made a plugin emulation of the MANIAC.

[jenamu6]

Great to see this, thanks.

Now I want a MANIAC!

[lago4]

Pink Floyd would've gone apeshit with that equipment if it had existed in the 60's.

[bigtank2185]

WTF is that joystick controller? pressure pads or mini-switches? jeez that looks like something that was created recently!

This is amazing!

[JNS94]

Fuckin awsome! :O

[arealbladeofgrass]

Very interesting. I want my own electronic drainpipe. Where can I buy a Kaleodophon. Or how can I make one? Brilliant Upload. Thankyou

[TINKAoo7]

Wicked stuff.

Yep, Music DOES develop...;/

Excellent vid. Cheers 4 sharin'.

[Nuntype]

Really interesting, I love electronica but I have to admit to not knowing a great deal about it's production, if anyone has the time / patience to teach me a little about it it'd be great.

[F0gstridEr]

AMEN!

[sacredgeometry]

btw thank you for uploading this

[Kariokid]

This homeboy blinks a lot. Pretty genius though.

[undrum22]

Super AWESOME!!! Thanks Mr V, seriously a pioneer in electronic music today :)

[sinisterfw]

So not only the guitar is a phallic symbol ;-)

But this music is really interesting. A lot of vintage electronic music sounds much more advanced than what they call electronic nowaday. Happily, there are exceptions to the rule such as Aphex Twin or Boards of Canada.

[kstonge07]

now its just pro tools, ableton, fruity loops, or reason. funny how it will progress in the next 10 years.

[michal23pl]

@kstonge07 funny how people don't mind a shit and soulless sound of modern virtual instruments

[kstonge07]

@michal23pl

right? however, trying to get new sounds out of instruments would be incredibly hard without technology.. we would still be listening to big band, rag time music.. besides music is what anybody wants it to be.. has it been anything less than an expression from the musician for the listener to decipher?

plus music on the radio makes girls asses shake.. so im not complaining one bit! lol

[michal23pl]

@kstonge07 you are absolutely right and im not complain either:) but it still doesn't explain why new technology goes into thin and sterile sound. old synthesizers for a new ones are like a butter for a skimmed milk. i love all those new features and stuff but overall sound is totally artificial and stiff. that's what i meant.

[sacredgeometry]

maybe your production is to blame ive heard huge sounds from software, digital, va and analogue with the right people behind them.

and equally thin, bland bullshit from all of them.

Peace

Brian

[michal23pl]

@sacredgeometry yeah i know. every tool could be great in the proper hands. i'm just well pissed cause everything goes virtual/artificial/fake nowadays. virtual instruments, virtual sex, virtual friendship, virtual money, electronic pets, artificial food, artificial grass, artificial flowers, fake smiles, fake tits, fake lips, fake teeth, huh... nevermind:P peace

[peleadeescrotos]

2:33 : that's some techno acid....

[AFX09]

SIMPLE AMAZING :)

[lenthemofo]

Why would you be attached to his penis?

[shutemdwn]

Ahh, thats how they get the cheesy music for porno movies.

[ssballs]

Ha,the giddy days of something new.

[LordxVorhaus]

does anyone know how to get in contact with david vorhaus?

[IDWTBAH]

the best way is to take a bunch of acid and hide in his backyard.

[o0nbj0o]

HAHAHAHA

[k2kkoos]

this is a fantastic clip! The last song he plays is on his White Noise III Re-Entry album. Hope it will be available on iTunes soon, as I only have a poor copy of my old LP on analog tape left, the LP is badly damaged in a move...

[ajittffcure]

... and after exactly 30 years, these instruments are still in demand amongst enthusiasts.

This is a wonderful clip! Thank-you so much for posting it.

[JeffreyPlaide]

Thankyou so much. Analogue music synthesis has attracted great interest, and musicians are interested in hardware and software that can create such fantastic soundforms with almost infinite variety and variability.

[Jauly]

@ajittffcure I lover analog synthetics, but you can hear in vorhaus' statements that, at these times, people and composers experienced the pure electronic sound as "cold" (compared to the instruments of the past) and did not appreciate it in it's raw form, because it did not resemble to their dreams and feelings of what they were musically affected in their lifes. so they tried to get a more "vivid" sound out of it...

[manowargoblin]

Superb! Thanks for making me aware of this exceptional musician.

Did David ever release his Reaktor ManiacVst2a.ens tothe public?

[MarkJenkinsMusic]

David has new MIDI versions of the MANIAC and Kaleidophon and we've been performing live in Europe, China and the UK.

The next show's at the LONDON GREENWICH PLANETARIUM on Sat Nov. 28th with new White Noise music and my own live music/planetarium show "Supernova".

Tickets from the National Maritime Museum (NMM) at around £18.00 with early and late shows the same evening.

Mark Jenkins

Tickets - NMM website

markjenkins[dot]net

[simonsound1]

Any more footage from this series/show? Thanks for posting this one.

[JeffreyPlaide]

Many thanks!

There is quite a bit of extra material from the 1979 BBC documentary. I have inter-dispersed some excerpts within my other music-related videos. Including the late Malcolm Clark from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop demonstrating the incredible EMS Synthi 100.

[cyphersum]

2:36 is the part I keep going back to... just awesome. reminds me of something Richard James (Aphex Twin) would come up with.

[downfader2]

I think its both sad that this kind of documentary and this kind of inventiveness have fizzled out.

Never heard of this guy before but he looks like a great muso and technician!

[AnalogueUK]

That last part took my mind straight back to T.O.N.T.O, some of my favourite music.

I must seek out more from Mr Vorhaus.

Thanks for posting.

[simonsound1]

Look for his White Noise album. The first one with Delia Derbyshire is amazing. That sequencer is amazing - very cool features. Time Warp Navigator!!!!

[attorks]

This is great. I actually saw this man perform on the Alfa Centauri festival 2001 in Holland; great performance.

[mootbooxle]

Ahead of his time!!

[Thalassa77]

I love this kind of documentaries

[Korgator]

thats fanthastic..!

[blockthesignal]

OMG!!! WOW

[JohnLRice]

Absolutely great!!! Thanks!

[ChemicalComedown]

I had never heard of this guy ?

He is a pure genius and I will definitely check out more of his stuff . . .

Thanks for uploading.

[buchla300]

Superb!

[denshiblocks]

thanks for sharing this!!!