I'm up to beyond my eyeballs in writing and office work (damn rent, bills, blah blah blah...) but I had to add a personal (blog) note to a review I did for TFS...
I Dream of Wires - click for my full TFS review
This is a documentary about the rise, fall, and resurgence in popularity of the modular synthesizer, including decades of history of the technologies, told through narration and interviews by key players in the development of synth technology.
There is a special screening at the Bloor tomorrow night (Saturday Aug 23, 2014) that includes a live performance by Solvent and Q&A... all this for $15! (aka price of a rave circa the early 90's!)
Most of you are not gonna care. But those who've known me personally, from "the [rave] scene", for a long time... the DJ's, the producers, the promoters even... you probably want to check this out.
The doc itself got a little too technical for me at many points, not enough about the actual music. I made reference to Modulations in my review, that's more my cup of tea. But I Dream of Wires is probably the first doc I've seen since that has taught me anything valuable about the history of EDM. It brought back memories of Mutek in Montreal, not the big Nocturne parties, but the afternoon sessions where producers brought their home made technologies and performed in loft spaces while we lazed on the floor enraptured by the organic electronic sounds...
(I Dream of Wires was screened at Mutek as well btw...)
Anyway, I wish I had more time to reminiscence, but the bottom line is... for the niche group, it's worth checking out.
