List of good documentaries about music, composers, musicians

nuun · 2017-01-28T21:42:35.030Z

randy · 2017-01-28T22:39:18.664Z

Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why is Everyone Talking About Him)?
https://youtu.be/16LsmlcXXDU

nuun · 2018-01-15T16:43:06.479Z

Not electronic music but interesting nonetheless

_mark · 2018-10-06T17:35:06.602Z

This is just great:

youaresound · 2018-10-19T02:02:21.376Z

mode.analogue · 2018-10-20T17:58:02.180Z

love this man’s stuff: Peter Vogel – The Sound of Shadows

List of good electronic music documentaries General

there’s a full feature film about the “composer” Peter Vogel as well but i’m not sure if it’s available online…….love this kind of interactive stuff.

buma · 2018-11-05T22:31:39.275Z

Warmly recommended :
« Vagabunden Karawane » (Werner Penzel - 1979) - Krautrock group Embryo makes a musical trip by bus through Iran, Afghanistan and India during 1979.

b_w · 2019-04-22T16:09:16.718Z

I saw this yesterday, and I must say that it completely blew me away. Highly recommend. If you haven’t heard the album, check it out. And then catch this film while it’s still in theaters.

otolythe · 2019-04-23T22:04:02.477Z

this looks good: carmine street guitars. he makes guitars out of wood from old buildings in new york:

zaneschaffer · 2019-04-24T03:37:38.885Z

Cool (but long) documentary on the budding German techno scene in the 80s and the impact it had on not only techno but electronic music

DoS · 2020-01-20T21:18:18.766Z

87 years! Not so much a documentary as a short piece about her, but still great to see, and how enthusiastic Eliane is still.

(NB: in French)

hawksquill · 2020-01-20T21:24:43.280Z

the luke fowler doc on martin bartlett is really lovely. https://lux.org.uk/work/025140-electro-pythagoras-a-portrait-of-martin-bartlett

fowler is doing consistently engaging stuff at the intersection of experimental/electronic music and film (he also did a film about sue tompkins creative process and his most recent film features environmental recordings by toshiya tsunoda)

zebra · 2020-01-20T21:35:47.381Z

thanks for that. martin bartlett was so special and so under-recognized.

i have a lot of tape and film from the bartlett / buchla 400 era that desperately needs archival attention.

DoS · 2020-01-20T21:51:32.798Z

qwoned:

66 min.

Nice - saving that for tomorrow!

siteraku · 2020-01-20T23:34:51.522Z

Here’s a good one on the composer Terry Riley

https://youtu.be/ZfHmEblM1Dk

SimonKirby · 2020-01-21T00:47:38.699Z

Just saw this brilliant short film on electronic music and Deaf culture. Really thought provoking and made me want to learn more! https://vimeo.com/357808052

mbutz · 2020-02-04T13:00:38.160Z

An article and some videos about Bamanya Brian and his Afrorack: https://cdm.link/2020/01/afrorack-first-african-modular/ (as he uses the Beatstep Pro Arturia of course does not hesitate to turn that into a marketing video):

P1505 · 2020-02-09T19:42:21.751Z

Spitfire shared this one about Suzanne Ciani (spelling?): https://composer.spitfireaudio.com/en/articles/suzanne-ciani-on-the-buchla-200e

dehack · 2020-02-10T05:24:33.073Z

I loved this documentary about the Orb, and was very sad that it went AWOL after a few showings. I delighted to see the interplay and the process (though not the whole or even a typical process, they clarified in a post-Film interview at Moogfest). Release may yet happen. Lunar Orbit

lanserdj · 2020-07-20T02:54:41.573Z

soundbreaking episode 2. Provides context of the change in the role of the studio initially being used to replicate what something sounded like live, to using the studio as an instrument - an easel perhaps. Covers the history from the Beatles to Radiohead. Highly recommend.
http://soundbreaking.com/episodes/episode-two/