These Hopeful Machines - Documentary on Early Days of Electronic Music

On Radio New Zealand here.

"A six-part series in which James Gardner traces a personal path through the evolving world of electronic music – and meets some of the people who made it happen."

Interesting bits:

Part 4: "20:00 "I was Born to Synthesize" - 1967: It's 'Sex, Drugs and Moogs' as rock adopts electronics, while synths sell soda on Madison Ave. Including exclusive interviews with Suzanne Ciani, David Cockerell, Bernie Krause, Morton Subotnick and Peter Zinovieff."

Part 5: "19:00 "Load Your Program. I am Yourself" - Born of war and raised on mainframes, computer music comes of age in the 70s and hits the charts thanks to the sampler. Stanford University hooks up with Yamaha to the sound of FM. Including exclusive interviews with John Chowning, Suzanne Ciani, David Cockerell, Barry Vercoe, Peter Vogel and Peter Zinovieff."

Part 6: "19:01 "A Dance To The Music of Time" - For many in the 90s, electronic music was synonymous with Techno and Intelligent Dance Music. Was this Dancing about Art? And has the laptop really brought about the democratization of music? Including exclusive interviews with Mark Ayres, John Chowning, Suzanne Ciani, David Cockerell, Phill MacDonald, Irmin Schmidt, Morton Subotnick, Barry Vercoe, Peter Vogel and Peter Zinovieff."

via Pierre Serné on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge via PatchPierre.Net