Before synth-pop, there were mad scientists in basements making music from pure voltage.
Drawing on rare performances, interviews, animations, and experimental film, this documentary surveys the formative years of electronic music from 1948 to 1980. Featuring pioneering composers and inventors—including Milton Babbitt and Leon Theremin—the film explores the experimental technologies, academic laboratories, and creative struggles that shaped the early evolution of electronic sound.
Direction
Multiple visionary directors including early digital art pioneer Lillian Schwartz.
Sound
The actual raw bleeps, bloops, and drones that birthed modern music.
Director
Edin Velez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Leon Theremin invented his instrument while developing a motion-sensor alarm for the Soviet government, then vanished into a gulag for years.
The Barron's 'forbidden planet' score was so otherworldly because they literally burned out circuits to get sounds—no one could replicate it.
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