What is electronic music?

Delia Derbyshire and Doctor Who

Dan Tepfer’s player piano is his composing partner

Music tech at the Voxel Lab

The secret history of the vocoder

Satie’s furniture music

Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter!

Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film recommendations and more.

A dispatch from the dawn of the electronic music age

This delightfully retro short from 1969 transports viewers to the advent of the synthesiser era. First broadcast as part of the BBC documentary Workshop: The Same Trade As Mozart, the video provides a tour of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which was established in 1958 to produce sound effects for the BBC, and ultimately became a groundbreaking space for experimental sound and........

© Aeon