Behind the Tee explores electronic music through instruments, designers and movements. It traces how constraint, misuse and cultural adoption have shaped and continuously reshaped the sound of electronic music.
Dave Smith
Dave Smith redefined what a synthesizer could be – not by inventing a new form of synthesis, but by making electronic instruments more practical, reliable and connected.
Dave Smith
Dave Smith redefined what a synthesizer could be – not by inventing a new form of synthesis, but by making electronic instruments more practical, reliable and connected.
Roger Linn
Linn approached electronic music as both an engineer and a working musician. Rather than asking what technology could do, he focused on what musicians needed it to do.
Roger Linn
Linn approached electronic music as both an engineer and a working musician. Rather than asking what technology could do, he focused on what musicians needed it to do.
Don Buchla
His ideas would shape and encourage experimental music, modular synthesis and decades later, the Eurorack movement.
Don Buchla
His ideas would shape and encourage experimental music, modular synthesis and decades later, the Eurorack movement.
The finest expressions of the analogue synthesizer
Roland Jupiter-8 refined decades of electronic instrument design into a machine that combined power, reliability and exceptional playability.
The finest expressions of the analogue synthesizer
Roland Jupiter-8 refined decades of electronic instrument design into a machine that combined power, reliability and exceptional playability.
The Mellotron: an orchestra at your fingertips
The Mellotron offered something that had previously been impossible: an orchestra at your fingertips. It was not perfectly realistic. Nor was it trying to be.
The Mellotron: an orchestra at your fingertips
The Mellotron offered something that had previously been impossible: an orchestra at your fingertips. It was not perfectly realistic. Nor was it trying to be.
The Akai MPC60 made sampling 'playable'
By the late 1980s the Fairlight CMI had already introduced the idea of sampling. The challenge was no longer capturing sound. It was making it playable.
The Akai MPC60 made sampling 'playable'
By the late 1980s the Fairlight CMI had already introduced the idea of sampling. The challenge was no longer capturing sound. It was making it playable.