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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.

19 February 2011 • music electronic synthesiser synthesizer analogue analog sound experimental buchla composers avant garde

The Tone Generation’s Ian Helliwell will be giving a talk at the Royal College of Music, :ondon on the 18th of November at 5.15 PM. Its free, so if you enjoy electronic music from this period or just want to find out how this Expo in particular made such an impact by exposing challenging experimental music, film, design and architecture to the masses, go and check it out.

Expo 67: Electronic Music for a World of Tomorrow
At Montreal`s Expo 67, electronic music and multi-screen cinema were brought together on a scale previously unseen, drawing from ideas and techniques fostered by avant garde composers and filmmakers. This highly experimental approach was thrust into the commercial exhibition arena via the massive popularity of Expo 67, and experienced by millions of visitors with no previous knowledge of such challenging work. National government as well as corporate pavilions featured new audio-visual presentations, and involved many of the most cutting edge artists of the day.
This forum will consider the circumstances and impact of experimental music and film colliding with the mainstream, and to give a sense of the sights and sounds of the Montreal fair, Ian will premiere his specially made split-screen collage of archive music, audio extracts and photographic stills.

Full details here

Ian Helliwell’s website

11 November 2010 • expo 67 experimental music electronic music sound design avant garde Ian Helliwell Montreal Worlds Fair multi screen cinema architecture film