Five leading music engineers talk about Dolby Atmos. They’re major league, mixing atmos versions of Elton John’s Rocketman, Rolling Stones’ Rock And Roll Circus, Miles Davis albums, and lots more (check the video description). It’s a long discussion, but has some great insights into the current state of immersive music in the recording and consumer markets. Listen to the first 10 minutes for a summary of Atmos.
At 02:51:26, before the Q&A section, Andrew Scheps says
“We’ve come to the conclusion that Atmos is pretty f*ing awesome, it can be a hell of a lot of fun to mix in…”
Looking forward to this, “In The Court of the Crimson King”
“In the Court of the Crimson King is a dark, comic film for anyone who wonders whether it is worth sacrificing everything for just a single moment of transcendence. It explores the unique creative environment of King Crimson, one in which freedom and responsibility conspire to place extraordinary demands on the band’s members - only alleviated by the applause of an audience whose adoration threatens to make their lives even harder. It’s a rewarding and perilous space in which the extraordinary is possible, nothing is certain, and not everyone survives intact.”
I chanced across this tutorial for emulating a TR-909 kick drum about an hour ago, and found it fascinating, though I only know about five words of Japanese.
That Moog documentary with Herb is fantastic - highly recommended! It’s like getting a good peek into the very birth of electronic music instruments and what the people were thinking, straight from the horses mouth.
Jeff Rona was a pretty smart guy. We were both “founding” members of the MIDI Manufacturer’s Association. Some of those folks were annoying idiots, but Jeff was always reasonable.
I was pretty surprised and impressed with the role the Dutch electronics company Philips played in research & development of electronic music in the early 1950’s and 60’s.
Philips? Yes, the guys that also brought you the Compact Cassette and the Compact Disc (amongst loads of other stuff). More specific: the Philips physics R&D laboratory: NATLAB.
In this case: walls of analog equipment, tone generators, tape machines that sort of stuff. All given tot a handfull of guys to play with. Lots of it used in unintended and creative ways. In an attempt to see if all this could lead to marketable products.
Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan - Song Of The Second Moon (Full Album, 1956)
BTW, 1956 is the same year that Bebe and Louis Barron created the first fully electronic score to a movie: Forbidden Planet. But that’s another story.
To continue the Philips Natlab story;
There is also a (rare) 4 CD set with these early works. With booklets full of background info.
Popular Electronics. Early Dutch electronic music from Philips Research Laboratories, 1956-1963Popular Electronics - Wikipedia (dutch)
Maybe also checkout Hainbach (Youtube), who is (musically) travelling back to this period of analog experimentation.
Here’s an example of him visiting the Dutch Willem Twee Studios, where they maintain and use a huge collection of this sort of early analog electronic gear.
Visiting Willem Twee Studios - a modern early electronic music studio
Sounds like all the dirty underware is coming out. Could be wonderful, interesting, horrifying, embarrasing… or all of them, like only the brits do it 
