Modulations - Cinema for the Ear (1998)
Modulations is a feature-length documentary that captures a moment in history where humans and machines are fusing to create today's most exciting sounds. It traces the evolution of electronic music as one of the most profound artistic developments of the twentieth century. By cutting back and forth between avant-garde composers, Kraftwerk's innovative synthesizer drones, Giorgio Moroder's glacial Euro-disco, Afrika Bambaataa's electro-funk, and Prodigy's current worldwide superstarstardom, Modulations celebrates, replicates, and illuminates the nomadic drift of the post-human techno sound. The film examines the kids who have turned the turntable into a musical instrument, disillusioned disco lovers who created acid house out of primitive synthesizers, Motor City mavericks who saw the drum machine as their escape route out of urban neglect, and a generation of British youth who transformed these blips and bleeps into dance floor anthems of their own alienation. Modulations provides a sense of history and context in which today's electronic music can be understood. It entertains the converted and remixes the mindset of electronica's nay-sayers. Featuring a stunning collage of interviews, cutting-edge visuals, in-studio footage, and live performances, Modulations moves at a pace that matches the energy and innovation of the music.
Soundtrack:
Donna Summer | "I Feel Love"
Afrika Mambaattaa | "Planet Rock"
Juan Atkins/Model 500 | "No Ufo's Remix"
LFO |"Simon From Sydney
Derrick May | "Strings of Life"
Jesse Saunders | "Yeah"
Aprodite | "Amazon 2 - King of the Beats"
Panacea | "Stormbringer"
Goldie & Rob Playford | "The Shadow"
Ryoji Ikeda | "Luxus 1-3"
Coldcut | "Atomic Moog 2000"
To Rococo Rot | "Kritische Masse 1"
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Modulations is a feature-length documentary that captures a moment in history where humans and machines are fusing to create today's most exciting sounds. It traces the evolution of electronic music as one of the most profound artistic developments of the twentieth century. By cutting back and forth between avant-garde composers, Kraftwerk's innovative synthesizer drones, Giorgio Moroder's glacial Euro-disco, Afrika Bambaataa's electro-funk, and Prodigy's current worldwide superstarstardom, Modulations celebrates, replicates, and illuminates the nomadic drift of the post-human techno sound. The film examines the kids who have turned the turntable into a musical instrument, disillusioned disco lovers who created acid house out of primitive synthesizers, Motor City mavericks who saw the drum machine as their escape route out of urban neglect, and a generation of British youth who transformed these blips and bleeps into dance floor anthems of their own alienation. Modulations provides a sense of history and context in which today's electronic music can be understood. It entertains the converted and remixes the mindset of electronica's nay-sayers. Featuring a stunning collage of interviews, cutting-edge visuals, in-studio footage, and live performances, Modulations moves at a pace that matches the energy and innovation of the music.
Soundtrack:
Donna Summer | "I Feel Love"
Afrika Mambaattaa | "Planet Rock"
Juan Atkins/Model 500 | "No Ufo's Remix"
LFO |"Simon From Sydney
Derrick May | "Strings of Life"
Jesse Saunders | "Yeah"
Aprodite | "Amazon 2 - King of the Beats"
Panacea | "Stormbringer"
Goldie & Rob Playford | "The Shadow"
Ryoji Ikeda | "Luxus 1-3"
Coldcut | "Atomic Moog 2000"
To Rococo Rot | "Kritische Masse 1"
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Hyperland is a 50-minute-long documentary film about hypertext and surrounding technologies. It was written by Douglas Adams and produced and directed by Max Whitby for BBC Two in 1990.
Ahead of it's time, this documentary introduced the Internet to an unsuspecting public way back in 1990. Douglas Adams, along with Tom Baker, explores the ideas of interactivity & digital links which are the basis of the Internet today.
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