David Vorhaus Analogue Electronic Music 1979
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- In this historical video excerpt, David Vorhaus talks about two of his analogue inventions - the MANIAC analogue sequencer, and the Kaleidophon from 1979.
The MANIAC (Multiphasic Analog Inter-Active Chromataphonic (sequencer)) was an analogue sequencer having variable step lengths, and the ability to split sequences into several smaller groupings giving considerable sonic potentiality. Addition and subtraction of events was possible, as well as the possibility to chromatically correct the output during performance. David could program his MANIAC sequencer to play a background rhythm or combination of musical events, to then improvise over the top with another instrument or synthesizer.
The Kaleidophon was a double-bass-like instrument using four velocity-sensitive ribbon controllers instead of strings. The instrument is played entirely using the left hand, leaving the right hand free to manipulate the sound via a number of controllers and a joystick.
David speaks about the processes of making electronic music, and the developments that such possibilities can provide for the imaginative electronic musician. This excerpt is taken from the BBC 1979 documentary entitled "The New Sound of Music" hosted by Michael Rodd. - Hudba
David's father was the director Bernard Vorhaus. David grew up watching his father making films and was fascinated by the film editing process. He wanted to utilise that process in the making of music. He is a true pioneer :)
I had never heard of this guy ?
He is a pure genius and I will definitely check out more of his stuff . . .
Thanks for uploading.
"Guess you guys aren't ready for that, but your kids are gonna love it".
This is advanced, even by today's standards. Thanks for archiving this!
What a genius. I've got most of his albums. A brilliant mind. I always come back to this clip whenever I need an inspiration, whatever it may be.
Mr Vorhaus certainly had the first fairlight in the UK. I remember visiting his studio where he demonstrated both the fairlight and the kaleidophon, can't remember the exact date though I'm afraid.
That Maniac Sequencer looks fabulous.
It's about time someone start building these for the hardware freaks.
I watched the "New Sound of Music" documentary and out of all the music played this guys sound is the only one which has a modern electronic music sound to it!
Thankyou so much. Analogue music synthesis has attracted great interest, and musicians are interested in hardware and software that can create such fantastic soundforms with almost infinite variety and variability.
He's my cousin! :)
Doctor Puppet Cool...Yeah I use to go to his place in bell size park to jam...lost touch tho and It's been a while now, just dropped him a email, not sure if its the same one tho..such a nice guy :-)
He's also my husband's cousin! They've had some very interesting psychonautical journeys together lol! Interestingly, David Vorhaus was insured for insanity when White Noise were signed by Island records, they were worried that he might go the same way as Syd Barrett ;)
DP, I am trying to get in contact with him, any way of doing that?
Nick, were you successful?
Hello Anna, is there any way of getting in contact with DV?
This is great. I actually saw this man perform on the Alfa Centauri festival 2001 in Holland; great performance.
@CiaranPaulRoche I read that Dave Vorhaus was the first person ever to buy a Fairlight, and that infamous and much overused 'Orch 5' sample was his work!
I wasn't aware of this, I was under the assumption Peter Vogel sampled it from the stravinsky album. But this was 'ORCH'. 'ORCH5' is a completely different story I've now learnt. Many thanks!
Vorhaus visited Middlesex University circa 2007, with Mark Jenkins, and delivered a lecture/performance. I treasure my signed White Noise CD - one of my desert island electroacoustic works.
What an amazing video. The first instrument is remarkable.
this is a fantastic clip! The last song he plays is on his White Noise III Re-Entry album. Hope it will be available on iTunes soon, as I only have a poor copy of my old LP on analog tape left, the LP is badly damaged in a move...
Look for his White Noise album. The first one with Delia Derbyshire is amazing. That sequencer is amazing - very cool features. Time Warp Navigator!!!!
Switch on the time warp navigator - it does it all for you!
Many thanks!
There is quite a bit of extra material from the 1979 BBC documentary. I have inter-dispersed some excerpts within my other music-related videos. Including the late Malcolm Clark from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop demonstrating the incredible EMS Synthi 100.
Who knew Kevin Keegan was such a pioneering electronic musician. 😉
Wow, never seen this before, a great gem, thanks Jeff!
Super AWESOME!!! Thanks Mr V, seriously a pioneer in electronic music today :)
Absolutely great!!! Thanks!
Cool!!!
thanks for sharing this!!!
Great to see this, thanks.
Now I want a MANIAC!
I love this kind of documentaries
AHAHAHA!!! Oh, man. That joystick controller (and the whole vid) is badass.
So awesome!
shit. for me.. this man is genius. to advance for his time.
Absolute genius!
"switching the time warp generator" iteration and improvisation, an evolution of sound .
@5:40 I gotta sample that
So beautiful and powerful
Im gonna cry
btw thank you for uploading this
@ajittffcure I lover analog synthetics, but you can hear in vorhaus' statements that, at these times, people and composers experienced the pure electronic sound as "cold" (compared to the instruments of the past) and did not appreciate it in it's raw form, because it did not resemble to their dreams and feelings of what they were musically affected in their lifes. so they tried to get a more "vivid" sound out of it...
THAT was the future
Unnatural blink rate - he must be an android! Let's get 'im!
Seriously this is awesome - some of the most 'musical' stuff I've heard of that period. I've been getting seriously Radiophonic myself just lately - recently acquired a couple of reel to reel machines and a splicing block - all preserved in air from 1967
That was sick
Awesome
The MANIAC should be relatively easy to replicate today, I think it was developed from the Moog 960 sequencer (looks like one on top of the two VCS3s) with its skip function and there would be a market for it with today's analogue modular enthusiasts, maybe Roger Arrick or Dieter Doepfer should look into it?
closest thing to it is the sequentix P3 or cirklon. I spoke to david ten years ago & he was very interested in my P3. he also told me he'd pulled 'maniac' apart to use the parts for other projects. 😙
Its called The New Sound of Music and its all on CZcams!
thats fanthastic..!
2:32 - aciiiid!
Reminds me of a show that was called brain follies. But jokes aside this is the birth of electronic music, although in 69 the starts were visible. This is isationism at least my opinion and i love it. I mostly play and write death metal but i love electronic/ experimental/ dnb etc... It inspires me to go beyond what people think of metal and sometimes i tamper into the electronic world full on. Love it.
2:33 : that's some techno acid....
The Dr. Frankenstein of electronic music! Makes me wish I'd studied EE instead of CS.
Genius!
Wow!
why am i just hearing his stuff now.
Wicked stuff.
Yep, Music DOES develop...;/
Excellent vid. Cheers 4 sharin'.
Getting that lot together in 79 Would've taken a bit if doing
It's so nice to be wealthy.
OMG!!! WOW
2:50 aaaaaaaand, we still fight this fact. Strait knowledge here though.
Would be so cool if a developer made a plugin emulation of the MANIAC.
Someone pls make this happen
Any more footage from this series/show? Thanks for posting this one.
Makes "That 1 Guy" look pretty ordinary
stumbled!!!
Superb! Thanks for making me aware of this exceptional musician.
Did David ever release his Reaktor ManiacVst2a.ens tothe public?
Ahhh, the halcyon days before fairlight, emulator and software. It was a little more difficult and costly to make electronic noise back then kids.
Fuckin awsome! :O
wow, really interesting video. I would love that sequencer. Software is great but it's so detached. potentially rigid and not hands on, the way this thing is.
"This revolution has hardly begun" Wow
great i wish i had this studio, i work better in the early hours too but my neighbour complains.sexy electronic sounds yum
Very interesting. I want my own electronic drainpipe. Where can I buy a Kaleodophon. Or how can I make one? Brilliant Upload. Thankyou
He's very blinky!
Ok ok.. but what is that peice of music called 🤯🤯
So not only the guitar is a phallic symbol ;-)
But this music is really interesting. A lot of vintage electronic music sounds much more advanced than what they call electronic nowaday. Happily, there are exceptions to the rule such as Aphex Twin or Boards of Canada.
Ha,the giddy days of something new.
All the sequences I think you have in Cthulhu VST today..
Please ... does anyone know how to contact David ? Although not a teacher himself at the time, he was my double-bass teacher at school in North London. I would love to be able to thank him for putting me on a musical path which became a major role in my life.
I'm his cousin. I'm in regular contact with him. I'll ask next time I see him. He really is a lovely guy and, likewise, he has been a huge influence on me creatively :)
@@pauldavies6625 Dear Paul, thank you for replying. It's great that somebody (you !) has helped, so again thank you. David probably does not remember me, but he may remember Darshan Pandya or Hugh Middleton, violinist (these were pupils/"musicians" at school in David's age. I was 4-5 years younger. Please just tell him it was a great time in the practice room with that huge double bass.
I was a piano player at school and became a professional keyboarder later. Ted.
does anyone know how to get in contact with david vorhaus?
Ahead of his time!!
mad chunes
Anyone know any David Vorhaus maniac tracks?
Ronan Hughes check out the Vorhaus Sound Experiments on KPM. It’s production music for film and Television. I found out about him by coming across his work in a record shop in Paris. It’s some of the best electronic music ever created.
thie music we hear on this clip was from his solo White Noise lp Re-entry
@btown2011 no reels...
Sounds like the Wargames soundtrack.
This homeboy blinks a lot. Pretty genius though.
Vocaloid level 1
Pink Floyd would've gone apeshit with that equipment if it had existed in the 60's.
theres an app for that...
MOOG !!!
6:47 No comments.
He was going to offer kaleidophon to buy, I actually played one when he was showing it at a trade fair in a hotel somewhere in London (I don't remember where) I'm sure it was a cut down plastic downpipe with magnetic tape strings/ribbons, He was a really nice bloke. I had forgotten all about it until a a fellow worker (only a few years ago) showed be a picture of a kaleidophon and said "I bet you haven't seen one of these before?" ........."seen one?" I said.... "I've played one!" his chips were well and truly soggy :o)
it'll never catch on.
who cares if he blinks. Listen to the music.
time warp Navigator
Tell me one f***in analogue Sequencer today wich can do this.
sequentix P3 or cirklon, midibox V4, couple of others.... octopus/nemo....
0:36 E VAI CON UN ALTRO PROGETTO...
Holy crap this is freaky! He's the archetypal maniac working into the wee hours in a quest for the ultimate sonic orgasm! :^D
Just goes to show you don't need overwrought digicrap to make funky sounds. Puts every wanker sitting at his Windoze PeeCee with Soundblaster nowadays positively to shame.
Granddad of psy trance. ; )
How phallic is that kaliedophon thing, i expected him to start thrusting and groaning near the end of the piece! ..ugh aaaaaand finished!!
It's modeled on an upright bass neck, Vorhaus is a classically trained bass player.
People ask me "So.... you were utterly obsessed with the old Dr Whos, but you don't watch the new show what so ever? Even though it's 100 times better now?"
And I say "YUP!" I see the almost disgruntled looks on their faces as confusion takes hold! I take heed of my own resound secrecy, whilst residual respect for my family disperses along with their dwindled individuality - replaced with insipid subservience & let only my close friends.. my *music* friends unravel such secrets as though they were printed on my forehead!
I don't even need to speak! They confirm what they suspect & experience themselves; a clandestine passion & love of the Modular organics that hummm'd & screeched from the TV set every week as the Doctor battled Aliens!
I don't even bother trying to explain why & how such radical electronic robotic sounds could possibly be more enjoyable than the trite desperate orchestrated & perfectly predictably traditional sound of epic classical hierarchy. I accept & innervate my own pretentiousness! Suspecting that only the emotionally flawed, mentally inept philistines of our now trend-reliant generation can hear only the popularity in today's scores & the lack of servile rectitude within the old scores. Thinking that the mindless general public who lack character, conviction, & cultured introspection can only ever enjoy what they are told to enjoy; fearing that any deviation from global fads may end their pride at any given moment or something!
This inner amusement soon consumates with a bitter aftertaste of the cold reality; The Music Industry, The unappreciated deceased Artform, The once God-like freedom to express an inner-vision to the outer-world via creative & innovative self discipline.
My heart feels heavy, my will devoured, my spirit crushed, & all the previous artists sing to me as a unilateral goodbye. Such absurd scenarios are a part of the art which burns inside me! And it is this which convinces me to just wink or nod than to attempt to explain why I am not fapping to Nu Hu!
So you don't watch the new Doctor Who then?
goddamn it he blinks too much for me to watch this
Keep it down a man can't hear his own steele band playing.
maybe your production is to blame ive heard huge sounds from software, digital, va and analogue with the right people behind them.
and equally thin, bland bullshit from all of them.
Peace
Brian
Ahh, thats how they get the cheesy music for porno movies.
Everything's shit these days with electronic music it's not hands on at all the sound is different it has no range of experimental sound structures really at all
If you want to hear stuff like this, you have to look at genres like progressive metal, or even some of Kraftwerks stuff
Dubstep is betterer.
Go listen to some Kraftwerk. Perhaps, they could change your mind.
Shining Armor what is a kraftwerk ?
STOP BLINKING SO MUCH WITH YOUR GREEDY EYES!