CMJ NEW MUSIC REPORT
JUNE 1, 1998 | ISSUE 572, no.9

MODULATIONS DOCUMENTS HISTORY OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC

iara lee, one of the owners of caipirinha productions and the independent filmmaker who made 1995's synthetic pleasures, has returned with modulations , a documentary about the evolution of electronic music, the 75 minute film features interviews and live performances by a who's who of electronic music, including alec empire, autechre, bill laswell, carl cox, coldcut, derrick carter, derrick may, d.j. spooky, frankie bones, future sound of london, can's holger czukay and irmin schmidt, invisbl skratch piklz, kid koala, ltj bukem, moby, robert moog, orbital, roni size, scanner, talvin singh, and many more. modulations premiered at this year's sundance film festival and has also been screened at other international festivals. the national theatrical release will come in early september; videos will be available soon after. the sire-distributed caipirinha music is also working on plans to produce a soundtrack for the film, and a book may be published as well. as many as three editions of the soundtrack may be released, with one "main" soundtrack augmented with a disc devoted to early electronic music pioneers and another devoted to up-and-coming electronic musicians.