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.

Tom Oberheim

Oberheim's work encouraged curiosity, rewarded performance and inspired musicians to lose themselves in the creative process.

Tom Oberheim

Oberheim's work encouraged curiosity, rewarded performance and inspired musicians to lose themselves in the creative process.

Alan R. Pearlman

Early synthesizers possessed extraordinary creative potential, but they were not always easy companions. Pearlman approached these problems as an engineer.

Alan R. Pearlman

Early synthesizers possessed extraordinary creative potential, but they were not always easy companions. Pearlman approached these problems as an engineer.

Robert Moog

Robert Moog moved synthesis from laboratories into recording studios, concert halls, stages and record breaking albums.

Robert Moog

Robert Moog moved synthesis from laboratories into recording studios, concert halls, stages and record breaking albums.

Ikutaro Kakehashi

Ikutaro Kakehashi's greatest contribution to electronic music may not have been a single instrument – it was his philosophy.

Ikutaro Kakehashi

Ikutaro Kakehashi's greatest contribution to electronic music may not have been a single instrument – it was his philosophy.

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.