Musique Concrete

[mattspaniard]

clearly where futurama got there intro from

[eetherealflux]

nice! great info

[TheBassHeavy]

Brilliant 

[theabcsofstds]

gives me the warm fuzzies inside

jesus christ i love music, i love noise, i love sound, i love the waves reverberating through my ears

[scottc102]

lol, we just happen to have a box of gravel lying around.

[Lalli1987]

So who's the author of the bottle music at the end? It's not John Baker and it's not Delia Derbyshire...

[jailbreakir]

i liked the bottle part at the end, does anyone know any composers who did anything with that sort of idea?

[coryvreckan]

I lived through those days when we had to use spicing block, razor blades (and bandages) in the studio. We sometimes called it "music by the inch". I am eternally grateful for digital sound editors.

[fabiorosho]

BRING THE NOISE!

[Lonlontime]

Espectacular la chaqueta



[EuropeanAnimation]

I've got to steal that cash register idea. Too much satirical potential to go to waste.

[ThatEpicAsian]

The bottle sound effects at the end was amazing.

[EmilyMaddenComposer]

Really good video.

[getbakedtonight]

3:45 that makes a good noise..fucking awesome!!!

[mackawack12346]

This is reminiscent of Dinosaur Holocausts early years.

[Arturolkmzh]

loko

[codern]

can anyone tell me what year this was??

[JeffreyPlaide]

1979 in fact, and produced by the BBC. It shows some of the facilities of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop as it was in 1979.

[MorkaGraven]

@codern Looks like the 60's...

[JeffreyPlaide]

The BBC Documentary was broadcast I believe in 1979.

[lurholm]

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!

[vinceandlilly]

Inspirational! 

[EQUALinDIFFERENCE]

I would love to use his commentary for the intro to a dubstep mix.

[JeffreyPlaide]

Of course,

Just sample the section you need with some filtering or reverb for effect.

[EQUALinDIFFERENCE]

@JeffreyPlaide

would it be possible to find this in wav? or better than youtube(crap sound) quality....?

[JeffreyPlaide]

Yes, I could extract in WMA, WAV or MP3 from my master file.

Can you send me some details via a personal message?

Many thanks.

[rudeboytony]

@JeffreyPlaide Could I also get a copy of this please?

[JeffreyPlaide]

Hello, I have posted in four parts "The New Sound of Music" - the documentary from which this excerpt came. Have a look. If you still need anything extra, just contact me.

[paulllfrancis]

@EQUALinDIFFERENCE message me if you make anything sick man! i'd love to hear.

[MorkaGraven]

@EQUALinDIFFERENCE These guys were doing dubstep long before a computer was capable of running FL studios...

[blackrabbitcux]

haha 0:49 another way of scratching

[WimGrundy]

analoguously refreshing

[mecaesare]

i wanna know who's the one to dislike this, how dare ya

[TheBeatpyramid]

Because we all have a box of gravel

[happycamper72397]

Why do I think this has subliminal messages

[diantonovich]

@happycamper72397 its probably just because its so strange and wierd, that you project on it unconscious content, coloring your impression, so to speak, with wierd ideas. or something =))

[happycamper72397]

@diantonovich Uh huh...I hate Freud MOTHA FUCKAAAAAAA!!!

jk

[JohnF30Music]

music was WAY more special back then. now music is everywhere and this is only bad

[diantonovich]

@JohnF30Music this shit aint shit

[darkblitzrz8]

nice quality in the vids recording back then ... its probably enhanced a bit .... but shit this is the hd of there time lol

[mecaesare]

i love this kinda music

[diantonovich]

@mecaesare ok. but i dont like it at all. 

[NuGanjaTron]

Unfaithful reproduction. ;^)

Then and now, tapes rule!

[DrummingMonkey13]

I really want a defunct alarm clock and a metronome now

[audiorium]

Very cool... one of the best demonstrations of tape music, music concrete I've seen. Back in Seattle, we had Soundwork Studio, late 70's and early 80's... Several of us spent a million hours or so creating tape pieces. Fun video, thanks.

[10menonachest]

if only this were more prevalent in music still. the only piece i know of commercially is pink floyd's "bike".

[KRIKFEHC]

twang, twang it.

"BOIINNNNG"

"MWUUUUUPH"

crude stuff.

[JuJuHound]

wow I watched the whole thing with interest, but then those bottles came in and were just incredible!

[dandyhands]

Careful with that bloody gravel Mike!

[ajittffcure]

Lovely video. How we take all these things for granted now with digital computers!

[diantonovich]

kind of pointless

[Lioyd1rving]

@diantonovich Not as pointless once you realize that literally all mainstream music use some degree of what this video shows the precursors of.

[diantonovich]

@Lioyd1rving crude, raw experiment, not yet art, however.

[Lioyd1rving]

@diantonovich Which is how it began...Without that experimentation, electronic music wouldn't even be around. :v

[synthwerk]

I've just acquired an old TEAC reel-to-reel and will finally get to cutting a splicing.

[SwissChi]

"twang" hhaa

[Desmaad]

Funnily enough, Fairlight released their CMI in the same year as this segment, making this genre of music easier (albeit not cheaper).

[Metamusik]

The ecstasy of Concrete Music explained by an enthusiastic man from the BBC, anno 1979. Oh, and there's a visual representation of the sounds being speed up, slowed down or played in reverse. Perfection.

[Luggagerecords]

Sharp attack...Gentle decay...

what a hero

[funkberto]

1969 documentary.. 0:55 TAPE SCRATCH

[horrordwarf]

The presenter is Michael Rodd, who used to present Tomorrow's World and Screen test on the BBC back in the 1970's. Great clip.

[SaltedRhubarb]

The precursor to Industrial music! These perverted sounds remind me of Cabaret Voltaire's early experimental works (1976 - early 80s).

[danyjr]

possible to get the sound with a 'reversed delay' effect.

[galko7]

loved the bottles!!!!

[JeffreyPlaide]

I am quite find of the box of gravel and defunct alarm clock.

[Brownkhao]

@JeffreyPlaide 

[jmcarval2]

Me too. What is the name (or the author)?

[GregorEicher]

thereatimes it was very difficult and hard to make a sounddesign...today you can make it in your sleepingroom with a laptop, and you have much more options to create sounds...crazy

[sherbetheadmusic]

Awesome, awesome, awesome!

[smokesometea]

The beginning is a bit annoying, but they did make some beautiful stuff back then...

I saw the whole movie at school today, but unfortunately I forgot the name... Pretty weird documentary btw... in every interview there's a old fat gut with long hear in the background... it's really ridiculous...

But a lot of this music is better sequenced and less experimental... As they say in the movie, the doctor who theme is a good example.

Cheers yuran:)

[JeffreyPlaide]

Many thanks Yuran,

There are two BBC Documentaries actually - "The New Sound of Music" 1979 - used here, and "The Alchemists of Sound" 2003 - that features the mysterious man in the background. I haven't been able to source who he is though.

Thanks!

[smokesometea]

@JeffreyPlaide

Tnx, i'm gonna check the other one as well:)

[Johanyoutubis]

thanks god about this academic experimental music. with merzbow this music going in noise and nothing only terible noise withahout sheets of music and absoluty free inprovizions and cant return sometshing.

[Modimodifilms]

Haha, this is kinda like the first turntabling.

[MountAnalogue]

RIP Schaeffer!!

[Capriccio01]

This is so interesting! I would love to be able to experiment with reel-to-reel, sadly at this day in age it's way way too expensive for me...

[philthetremoloking]

are you kidding? you can find reel to reels and tape on ebay for next to nothing!

[djfakt]

As a modern sound designer I found this to be incredibly cool...What the computer has afforded us it amazing; you had to put in SERIOUS work back then!

THIS is the kind of video that reminds me how cool youtube CAN be. It's usually just trash...

[JeffreyPlaide]

Many thanks for this.

I found this programme very inspirational for the creative sound artist, and also quite enjoyable to watch Michael Rodd explain tape techniques.

Much appreciation!

[darkblitzrz8]

@djfakt YOU TUBE is probally way worse than myspace and facebook...

it all depends upon wat u use it for .... me i use it for educational purposes.. like this nice information here..... i wish poeple were more experimental now ..

[girlseniorpicture]

This video made me happy.

[tinaturntable]

Me Too! ^^

[jadsondoug]

Demais cara... só tá faltando o Stokhause... do caralho!

[grobber13]

amazing!

[neelshiv]

This is a great educational video for modern music lovers.

[topbloke100000]

Be nice if someone would explain to Beatles followers that the Beatles didn't create this type of music!

[okltsply]

I heard that! I'm on here watching and listening to several videos of this stuff, so far nothing to do with what the Beatles did.

[Nechvatal]

superb

[yermyahu]

Industrial, sequenced music in the 50's...analog synthesizers in the 20's. Sure makes one think about the statement: 'Everything that has been done, has been done before.' What a cool video!

[wgaule]

Love it!

[LucasFlandria]

nice upload =)

[whiterabbitpress]

thank you for posting this