Broads
Visit Norfolk electronic/piano sales pitch
The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon discusses some of the influences that have shaped him and his spiffing and surprisingly synth-heavy album ‘Office Politics’
White Noise
David Vorhaus remembers how a Summer Of Love encounter with Delia Derbyshire led to their foray into the counter culture with the White Noise album ‘An Electric Storm’
Harry Edwards
Contemporary abstract experimentalism
Experimental Sonic Machines
Mask-wearing noise machine primitivist
808 State ‘Pacific State’
Graham Massey on the making of 808 State’s ‘Pacific State’, the record that both defined and reflected the blithe spirit of the summer of 1989 better than any other
EMS: The Composer
Tristram Cary, avant-garde exponent of all things EMS
EMS: The Ambassador
Robin Wood, from teaboy to salesman to CEO
EMS: A Very British Synthesiser
In early 1969, you could count the world’s synthesiser companies on the fingers of one hand after an unfortunate fireworks accident...
Elizabeth Parker: The Last Post
The final composer to leave the workshop as it was being wound down in the late 90s, Elizabeth Parker recalls her time at the audio coal face