bright sparks

a few years back sheffield duo i monster released an album called bright sparks and also created a documentary about electronic music pioneers to accompany it. the documentary is now available free online and features a collection of interviews with synth designers and some of the musicians that have used their instruments.

it's split into two parts, the a side focuses on us based electronic music pioneers including bob moog, don buchla, alan r pearlman and harry chamberlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXWgBEiNhs

the b side focuses on british electronic music pioneers such as ems’s peter zinovieff, electronic dream plant’s adrian wagner and chris huggett, and string ensemble inventor ken freeman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXPoM9s8Trs

you can listen to i monster's bright sparks album at their bandcamp page https://imonster.bandcamp.com/album/bright-sparks