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The latest episode of The Tone Generation explores experimental (and library music in the form of Roger Roger/Cecil Leuter) music created on the Moog range of synthesisers.  Don’t be expecting the usual Switched on Bach and Keith Emerson fare. As usual with The Tone Generation, its all about sharing some of the lesser known early electronic material from Ian Helliwell’s vast collection.

Music from Walter Sear, Cecil Leuter, William S. Fischer, Paul Beaver, Bernie Kraus, Andrew Rudin and Nik Raicevic.

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I also want to take this opportunity to tell you about Ian Helliwell’s new film. Practical Electronica tells the story of unsung British electronic pioneer, Fred Judd.  Full details at Ian’s website, but the world premiere is in Cork on the 9th of November 2011, the UK premiere is in Brighton as part of the Cinecity film festival on the 20th of November, and the London premiere is at the Barbican on the 25th of November. A very exciting Practical Electronica exhibition will open on November the 18th at the Phoenix Gallery in Brighton,  bringing together machines and sounds created by Ian and used in the making of the documentary, alongside items of Fred Juddrabilia, including books, magazines and records. Together with collages, and modified television, there will be new interactive stereophonic sound generator Hellimatic, a remodelled 1960s exercise machine.

The latest episode of the ongoing electronic music history series The Tone Generation, is now available here. Focusing on music composed on the legendary Buchla range of electronic music boxes, Ian Helliwell plays and discusses tracks by Morton Subotnick, Ernst Krenek, Michael Czajkowski, Warner Jepson, Bulent Arel and Arthur Krieger.

For those that delight in the old fashioned wireless transmissions, London’s Resonance FM will be broadcasting programme’s 19, 20 and 21 starting on February 23rd at 5pm then the next 2 Wednesday’s following that.

The latest Tone Generation explores electronic compositions created using the British based EMS range of electronic synthesisers. As always Ian Helliwell has picked out some excellent recordings including some great archive material - of particular note is Tristram Cary introducing the EMS range on a promotional flexi disc.

THE TONE GENERATION
Programme 17: EMS
Selecting tracks as usual from his record and cd collection, Ian Helliwell explores electronic music generated with EMS equipment, including the Synthi A, VCS3 and Synthi 100. Featuring pieces by Tristram Cary, Pink Floyd, Andrzej Dobrowolski, White Noise, Harrison Birtwistle and Priscilla McLean.

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The Tone Generation has evolved beyond its initial 10 part run for Resonance FM, and as we prepare to make episode 16 available there are plans for many more episodes and even a Tone Generation live show. I’ll keep you posted on the live show but for now get the latest episode here.

The Tone Generation series is now back online. Listeners who have been following the series for a while and are subscribed to the old podcast stream will need to re-subscribe to the new stream to continue getting the latest shows automatically. Do that here.  New listeners can subscribe following the same link or if you prefer to download MP3’s go here.

Sorry for the small glitch but hopefully everything should run smoothly from now on. The latest Tone Generation show will go live early next week.

Having had nothing back from Odeo regarding the technical problems we’ve been having we have decided to move to a new hosting service. I am currently in the process of moving the series over to Blip.tv and over the next few days it should all be done. Be patient and you will be rewarded with a brand new episode! Programme 1 is now back up and the rest will follow shortly. I would suggest holding off subscribing to the current Odeo podcast feed until I post the link for the new Blip.tv one.

Thanks for your understanding.

We are having further problems with our hosting service Odeo which means the first 8 Tone Generation shows are currently unavailable to download. Sorry if you have come to here to listen to the series and been disappointed but please be patient. You can still listen to shows 9 and onwards here.  More positive news is that the next installment of The Tone Generation,  ‘Electronic Music Authors’, is recorded and ready to upload - the only thing stopping me doing this is that I don’t want to upload whilst Odeo have technical problems. Lets hope they sort them out soon. Stay tuned for more news.

UPDATE - Odeo seem to have given up on any kind of customer support. After emailing them twice in the last 10 days I haven’t heard anything back from them. It looks like we will have to find and alternative hosting solution and migrate the series.