The New Sound of Music (1979)

Concept and creative process

A one-off documentary highlighting the extraordinary story of musical pioneering, which took the audience into the world of White-Noise, Saw-Tooth, Square-Wave and Digital Sequencers, as well as other highly melodious sounds created by a variety of novel instruments never imagined before. A low budget sequence needed a simple solution. The idea was based around existing audio. The artwork was shot top-lit on a film rostrum camera, then a high contrast clear on black version of the stars alone (a photographic Kodalith) was shot back-lit using a filter on the lens.

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