The Tone Generation - Around the world in electronic sound
Posted by: Simon in news, music
This Friday sees the launch of a new simonsound produced radio series looking at the history of electronic music as a worldwide phenomenon. The 10 part series called ‘The Tone Generation’ is presented by electronic musician and film-maker Ian Helliwell. Starting in Europe and finishing in the Southern Hemisphere Ian will be playing vintage tracks - some celebrated, many obscure and overlooked, to give an overview of electronic music. Part one starts with Great Britain and features music from a number of BBC Radiophonic composers including Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire.
The series will be broadcast every Friday evening at 7.30 on Resonance 104.4 FM. Subscribe to the podcast by clicking here (the podcast feed now seems to be working) or download an MP3 of show 1 here.
Other radio news - Expo 67 was transmitted on BBC Radio 6 last week and has been broadcast in Paris, New York and Bristol over the last 5 months. The complete programme will be available to download here shortly.
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April 15th, 2008 at 1:11 am
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April 15th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
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April 17th, 2008 at 1:40 am
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April 17th, 2008 at 4:51 am
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April 18th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
[…] The Tone Generation is a ten part series of podcasts about the earliest days of electronic music. Part One [mp3 link] covers Britain - with rare recordings from the 1950s and ’60s by people like Tristram Cary, Daphne Oram, and assorted Radiophonic Workshop alumni. The music on offer is all pretty challenging - lots of atonal bleeps and waves of noise and very different from the commercially-minded output of Raymond Scott, who was working at the same time - although with more expensive gear. The podcast is presented by Ian Helliwell, and produced by Simon James, who also did the splendid Welcome to Mars. […]
April 21st, 2008 at 5:55 pm
[…] a similar theme — I recently discovered an ambitious 10 part podcast entitled ‘The Tone Generation‘ that explores the history of electronic music through the world. The first episode begins […]
April 30th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Nice one. Great stuff.
I found this totally co-incidentally and had no idea you’d produced it. I did a search and here I am.
Catch you soon.
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
[…] will continue to exist as an outlet for the less commercial work I like to be involved in such as The Tone Generation, Welcome to Mars and the upcoming SAN Expo electronic ensemble. These projects don’t always […]
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:39 am
the tone generation…
The Tone Generation, une série de 10 émissions consacrées aux musiques électroniques de l’époque analogique. Mis au point par Ian Helliwell à partir de sa collection personnelle de disques, chaque émission est consacrée à un pays (Grande-Bret…
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:51 pm
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August 6th, 2008 at 10:29 am
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