Videos
The quality of those available online can be quite low.
SDIY
- Homemade analog synth by David Henderson
- Homemade Synthesizers and other projects by organfairy
- DIY Synth Time-lapse
- Synth DiY Tutorials and Reviews by Quincas Moreira
- DIY Eurorack 101 by Befaco
- Building a Synthesizer, by Thomas Henry, 2009
Synthesizer knowhow
- Modular Synth Basics - Synthesizer Tutorials, The Tuesday Night Machines YouTube playlist
Electronics
- Markus Fuller
- EEVblog, an off-the-cuff Video Blog for Elelectronics Engineers, Hobbyists, Hackers and Makers
Electronics for synthesizers
This is discussed at Muff Wiggler forum:Prof. Aaron Lanterman EMS lectures
- Aaron Lanterman’s Home Page
- The Distillery episode 10: Aaron Lanterman
- Georgia Tech Theory and Design of Music Synthesizers, EMS lectures by Aaron Lanterman, 2006 on YouTube
- Georgia Tech Electronics for Music Synthesis, EMS lectures by Aaron Lanterman, 2008 on YouTube
- Georgia Tech Electronics for Music Synthesis, EMS lectures by Aaron Lanterman, 2010 on YouTube
- Georgia Tech Electronics for Music Synthesis, EMS lectures by Aaron Lanterman, 2011 on YouTube
- All 48 videos of the Aaron Lanterman EMS sessions from 2010 and 2011 on YouTube
Technique
- The Foundation of Synthesis Videos – Get started: Learning the fundamentals of synthesis with Marc Doty
- Intro to Synthesis, New York School of Synthesis by Dean Friedman, 1988 or later
- Slices Tech Talks 1-13 by Electronic Beats Video
History
- Bassline Bassline by Nate Harrison – Roland TB303 documentary
- Moog by Hans Fjellestad – Interview of Bob Moog, 2004
- The Shape Of Things That Hum – the story of the electronic instruments that have shaped modern music
- Alchemists Of Sound – BBC documentary about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
- Discovering Electronic Music by Bernard Wilets, 1983
- A Brief History of the Minimoog Synthesizer
- Electric Music Machine – Documentary about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 5 parts
- Music Meets the Computer Computer History Museum talk by Max Mathews & John Chowning
- What the Future Sounded Like Documentary about the birth of electronic music in Britain, 2006
- Modulations: Cinema for the Ear by Lara Lee, 1998 – Documentary on the history of electronic dance music
- What the Future Sounded Like by Matthew Bate, 2006 – ABC TV documentary on the development of electronic music
- Morton Subotnick interview, Madrid 2011
- Bright Sparks
The music and musicians
- Music of the 20th and 21st Century
- The New Sound Of Music BBC documentary in 4 parts
- Analogue Heaven Documentary about the Museum of Synthesizer Technology
- Daphne Oram audio documentary transmitted on BBC Radio 3, 3 Aug 2008
- The history of the Amen Break
- BBC Synth Britannia
- Synth Britannia at the BBC
- Slices DVD Magazine Features Issue 1-12 by Electronic Beats Video
- Stevie's Wonder Men
- I Dream of Wires Documentary about the resurgence of the modular synthesizer
- Elektro Moskva Documentary about the Soviet electronic age and its legacy.
- The Secrets Of Analog & Digital Synthesis 1985 tutorial video by Steve DiFuria
- Isao Tomita, RBMA Tokyo 2014
- Synthesizers in the Movies, BBC documentary
- Brian Eno – Another Green World, BBC Arena documentary
Audio
- The Tone Generation, radio series by Ian Helliwell
- These Hopeful Machines, radio series by James Gardner
- Sculptress of Sound – The Lost Works of Delia Derbyshire by Matthew Sweet
See also
External links
- Synth movies at Matrixsynth, includes a few unavailable for viewing online
- Synth Cinema at Synth School, a collection of online synth related movies
- The Video Archive of the Electroacoustic Music