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saint gillis

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Hey!
Do you know some movies or docs about audio electronics etc ?

  I have seen "I dream of wires" http://www.idreamofwires.org/ about synthesizers' history, the first part is nice, the 2nd is a bit boring
  I heard about "Goodnight Brooklyn: The Story of Death by Audio" but didn't watch it, same for "fuzz the sound that revolutionized the world"..
 
Not audio, but I liked:

Why Man Creates, Paracelso Zeppelin
on Vimeo  https://vimeo.com/22113008

Many later references are to US history, but you will get it.

"this was backed by Kaiser Aluminum. ...we were all encouraged to take time off work to watch it. ...they felt that no matter what we did for the organization or in life, we were creating on a daily basis."

'...one snail says to another, "Have you ever thought that radical ideas threaten institutions, then become institutions, and in turn reject radical ideas which threaten institutions?" to which the other snail replies "No." and the first says dejectedly, "Gee, for a minute I thought I had something."'
 
There a lot  of movies on audio and audio related things.

For starters there are some great documentaries  on the likes of les paul, tom dowd, bob moog, and others.

There is also a series of documentaries called The making of "insert album title here" which does a great in depth information on the making of classic albums like dark side of the moon, and  others of that ilk. Good stuff.
 
The history of the wah wah pedal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0A8cPj_fPo

Fuzz: The Sound that Revolutionized the World
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/fuzz_the_sound_that_revolutionized_the_world

I will post more as I will remember
 
saint gillis said:
Yeah booth!
Thanks

Well for Audio Engineering a lot of interesting documentaries

PBS "Soundbreaking" is really good, even people not related to Audio Engineering like it
http://kttz.org/post/pbs-presents-soundbreaking-stories-cutting-edge-recorded-music-coming-november#stream/0

Theres also the "Classic Albums" series,  each doc is related to a specific album and you have the Producer or Engineer in a studio with the multitracks explaining how it was recorded and mixed, it's really interesting you can choose the Albums you like the most here is the list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Albums

Dave Grohl's "Soundcity" documentary is also really good:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2306745/

check this ones I will tell you others later
have fun
 
More along "I Dream of Wires" there's this one about Bob Moog, shows him (among other things) talking about and with famous musicians:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5HRa9nEVVU&t=3128s

And then there's this Kickstarter one on Bob Moog, it got funded, dunno the latest status:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm6eWx986Kg
 

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