BBC Radiophonic workshop

• BBC Radiophonic Workshop Tristram Cary – UK Electronic Composer, Electronic Music Studios (EMS and the VCS3 Synthesizer). Watch the 3 part series “The Alchemists of Sound” on YouTube

The Alchemists of Sound – Part 2 on Youtube:

• Brian Eno Playing with Roxy Music, Ladytron

This early clip shows Brian Eno playing both the VCS-3/TR-606 Modular synthesizer and a bank of tape recorders. The tape recorder enabled him to manipulate sound he’d recorded, or as Paul Morley suggests,
“ ….. enables him to tape things from out there. Eventually he would own 31 tape recorders. His early fascination with this ability to actually hold in place, mess about with and keep for all time something as ethereal as sound hints at all his future work. He records therefore he is. ……”.