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DIRECTED BY IARA
LEE
| PRODUCED BY GEORGE GUND
We
are not entertainers, we are sound scientists -
Kraftwerk
From the makers of
Synthetic Pleasures, comes the film Modulations, a
feature-length documentary which captures a moment in
history where humans and machines are fusing
to create today's most exciting sounds.
Modulations traces the evolution of electronic music as one
of the most profound artistic developments of the 20th
century. By cutting back and forth between avant garde
composers, Kraftwerk's innovative synthesizer drones,
Giorgio Moroder's glacial Euro-disco, Afrika Bambaataa's
electro-funk and Prodigy's current worldwide
superstarstardom, Modulations celebrates, replicates and
illuminates the nomadic drift of the post-human techno
sound.
The film examines the kids who have turned the turntable
into a musical instrument, disillusioned disco lovers who
created acid house out of primitive synthesizers, Motor City
mavericks who saw the drum machine as their escape route out
of urban neglect, and a generation of British youth who
transformed these blips and bleeps into dancefloor anthems
of their own alienation.
Modulations provides a sense of history and context in which
today's
electronic music can be understood. It entertains the
converted and
remixes the mindset of electronica's nay-sayers.
Featuring a stunning collage of interviews, cutting-edge
visuals, in-studio footage and live performances,
Modulations moves at a pace that matches the energy and
innovation of the music.
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