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30 min. documentary from 1965 on IPEM, a Belgian electronic music research deparment at the University of Ghent
Posted: 12 January 2012 08:04 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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This clip is in Dutch, sadly it hasn’t been captioned in other languages. It’s an episode from the public broadcasting company’s ‘Tienerklanken’, a programme aimed at young people (teenagers).

The beginning of the clip shows interviews with a number of 1960s youngsters who loathe electronic music, and are more into Jazz and Blues. The second part shows the researchers at IPEM demonstrating their (largely hand-built) equipment and explaining how they work:

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It’s a great reference work, and hard to imagine that Kraftwerk’s Autobahn was only about ten years in the future.

 
   
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