The Holmes Archive of Electronic Music Thom Holmes

This podcast is the second of two parts on tape music from Canada. In this episode we cover the period from 1974 to 1992 with representative sounds from women and men composers.

This podcast is the first of two parts on electronic music from Canada. In this episode, we cover the early era spanning the years 1955 to 1972 and the women and men who composed music on magnetic tape.

For this episode, I’ve created a sound collage by remixing fragments of audio tracks from a selection of educational and instructional records found in my archive. Most of the recordings are from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.

This podcast is the second of a two-part series in which we’re listening to examples of electronic keyboards in jazz. In this episode, we’ll begin around the time of the Fender Rhodes and explore various keyboards up until 1979 which is capped by the use of a wide variety of analog synthesizers.

This episode is the first of two parts covering the use of electronic keyboards in jazz. This part covers the early history of recordings from 1938 to the late sixties. Seven such instruments went out of fashion in jazz as the electronic organ and piano gained popularity. These included the Hammond Novachord, the Ondes Martenot, the Hammond Solovox, Lowrey Organo, Ondioline, Electronic Celesta, and Clavioline. I’ve uncovered some fantastic, and surprising examples of all of these. The next part will begin in the late sixties and lead up to early synthesizers in jazz.

Field recordings provide fascinating source material for electroacoustic music. For this episode, I searched the Archive for sound effects and the captured sounds of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles and scooters, plus ambient street sounds from various cities I’ve visited and remixed it all into a soundscape around motoring.