Practical Electronica: A Trailer

Practical Electronica: A Trailer from Public Information on Vimeo.

"A trailer for Ian Helliwell's 2011 Documentary about an important and previously untold link in the history of early British Electronic Music.

Practical Electronica- The Sound World Of F.C. Judd

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Electronics Without Tears, a 35-track compilation of F.C Judd material (fully restored and mastered at D&M Berlin) will be landing soon on Public Information.

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"xcerpts from forthcoming Public Information anthology of British Electronic Music pioneer, Frederick Charles Judd.

F.C Judd- Electronics Without Tears

PUBINF003
Released 16.01.12
Limited 12" LP / Digipack CD with Booklet

More details:

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Released by: Public Information
Release/catalogue number: PUBINF003
Release date: Jan 16, 2012"

via http://www.fcjudd.co.uk/ :

"In early British electronic music history, FC Judd is not the only overlooked and little discussed composer working in the late 1950s and 60s – in fact he is one of a number now largely forgotten. His unacknowledged importance hinges on a wide range of electronic activities – from his compositions, self-built synthesizer and sound visualisation system – to his books, magazine articles, radio broadcasts and lectures to amateur tape recording clubs up and down the country. Fred was the prime mover in disseminating electronic sounds and musique concrete to the general public – not just encouraging them to listen, but moreover to experiment for themselves with tape recorders and tone generators.

Frederick Charles Judd was born in 1914 in Woodford, east London, and like so many youngsters of his generation developed an early and abiding passion for radio. With the outbreak of WW2 he served in the RAF Coastal Command working with highly secret radar equipment, just as electronic music pioneer Tristram Cary was engaged in similar work in the Royal Navy. Both men were later in contact, and used their skilled engineering backgrounds to develop their musical interests through electronics. Fred had no formal musical training though he was competent on guitar and organ, and it appears that the combination of music, radio, tape recording and circuitry inevitably drew him to experimenting with electronic music during the mid-1950s."

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