Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop

This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the "Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early ...

Herbie Hancock jams with his Fairlight CMI

Herbie shows off while Quincy Jones looks on. 1983

Micro Live - Computer Music in 1985

Extracts of the BBC program "micro live" circa 1985. Features a demonstration on the Sinclair Spectrum, Comadore 64 and the newly invented concept of MIDI.

Reactable: basic demo #1

(http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable)

The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface...

Making of the Doctor Who theme (edited)

Footage of the early 80s remake of the doctor who theme song for the show of the same name by Peter Howell. Get a great behind-the-scenes view of how it was made and close glimpse at the equipment used...