From Dr Who to The Dark Side of the Moon to modern day dance music, the pioneering members of the Electronic Music Studios radically changed the sound-scape of the 20th Century. What the Future Sounded Like tells this fascinating story of British electronic music. What The Future Sounded Like mixes experimental visual and sonic techniques with animation and never-seen-since archival footage. A sonic and visual collage, this documentary colors in a lost chapter in music history, uncovering a group of composers and music engineers who harnessed technology and new ideas to re-imagine the boundaries of music and sound.
Sound
Archival audio that shaped Pink Floyd and Doctor Who.
Editing
Collage style matches its subject—chaotic, brilliant, ahead of its time.
Director
Matthew Bate
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The EMS VCS3 synthesizer—hand-built in a London garden shed—appears on over 500 albums including Bowie and Roxy Music. Brian Eno called it 'the first portable synthesizer that actually worked.'
Director Matthew Bate used degraded VHS transfers and analog glitches intentionally, mirroring how EMS's own technology degraded beautifully over decades of use.
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